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Workshop profits?

Posted: 7/16/05 at 1:52pm

Whoops. if i double posted this, sorry.

Anyway, I was listening to Mary Bond Davis on the the Chatterbox, and she said that she wishes there had been a HAIRSPRAY workshop she was in, cause she would have gotten a cut of the box office profits. Is this an automatic condition for EVERYONE participating in a workshop?

Thanks.

Doug

re: Workshop profits?

Posted: 7/16/05 at 2:00pm

Yep. Equity created special rules governing workshop participation back in the 70s (after the success of A Chorus Line) mandating that Equity members who were in the workshop had to receive subsequent residual payments from that show if it went on to Broadway (or another professional engagement). This is true whether or not the workshop participant actually ended up in the finished show or not. I can't recall what the actual percentage is, though.

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

re: Workshop profits?

Posted: 7/16/05 at 2:05pm

Here's my question:

Several cast members that I saw in the Coral Gables production of Little Shop of Horrors have listed that experience as being a workshop in their Playbill bios for subsequent shows (Taboo, Brooklyn etc.)
Did those cast members get residuals from the Broadway production?

re: Workshop profits?

Posted: 7/16/05 at 2:12pm

Possibly, though I was always under the impression that the Equity workshop rules applied mainly to new shows (where the actors play such a crucial roles in the very creation of their parts) and not to revivals. There may not be a distinction between the two, though.

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

re: Workshop profits?

Posted: 7/16/05 at 4:00pm

yea i was wondering that as well, thanks for clearing that up Margo. Wow! i need to be involved in a workshop!

re: Workshop profits?

Posted: 7/16/05 at 4:21pm

Sounds like a good deal. Even if it's only .1%, that's still 1000 dollars a week for some of the high-grossing shows. I wonder if they get percentages from the touring productions as well.

re: Workshop profits?

Posted: 7/16/05 at 7:41pm

The AEA workshop rules state that actors who participate are entitled to a percentage of the future of the show. The actors are alotted one percentage point in the standard royalty pool. That one point is split between all the cast members, not one point each. It takes along time to recoup and the show has to be a show like Phantom or something to actually see money. They also get right of first refusal on the next production.

re: Workshop profits?

Posted: 7/16/05 at 8:30pm

Thanks for that info.

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

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