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[mamamia sammy]

Posted: 3/12/04 at 10:54am

So then, LocalOne, you gave wrong information about it didn't you?

PS. She never rehearsed with the cast nor did she tell them that she was going into the show. Trust me.

Updated On: 3/12/04 at 10:54 AM

[localonecrew]

Posted: 3/12/04 at 11:28pm

no, i didnt give wrong information. she did tell the cast and crew she was going into the show, trust me.

it seems that you have struck out here. i gave you the opportunity to back up your statements and you have failed.

i will allow you to continue to rail all you want, i shant bother with you any further since i have shown you to be a blowhard unable to prove your claim.

dismissed. Updated On: 3/12/04 at 11:28 PM

[Bret]

Posted: 3/12/04 at 11:39pm

This is a snippet from an article I read.
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They initially offered Pinkins just $2,000 a week, theater sources
said. She balked at the figure, and expressed her dissatisfaction in
an e-mail to the producers.

According to a person who read the e-mail, Pinkins pointed out that
she had worked on the show for nearly a year for very little money
(she made less than $1,000 a week at the Public), and that now that
it was going to Broadway she felt she deserved a substantial raise.

She also said she was not in good shape financially as result of a
bitter divorce and a bruising custody battle. Pinkins did not say how
much she wanted in the e-mail, but a production source said the
figure she later told the producers was $25,000 a week.

That would put her on par with such other Broadway leading ladies as
Donna Murphy, who is said to be making $15,000 a week in "Wonderful
Town," and Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel, who are each said to
be pulling more than $20,000 a week in "Wicked." Yesterday,
production sources said she was unlikely to get that much.

The figure both sides seem to be honing in on is about $7,500 a week,
with a bump up to $10,000 if she wins the Tony in June, which she may
well do. She may also get a percentage of the weekly profits, though
it's hard to imagine that a show as spectacularly uncommercial
as "Caroline, or Change" will ever have any profits.

The producers know this, which is why they offered her so little
money to begin with. They are trying to keep a lid on the weekly
running cost so the show won't bleed money each week. Of the show's
recoupment prospects, Landesman himself has said: "I would
characterize its odds as long."

But while fat-cat producers like Landesman, who runs the company that
owns the O'Neill Theater, can afford to lose money on shows they deem
to be "worthy" and "artistic," actors should not be required to take
a vow of poverty.

Several producers not involved in "Caroline, or Change" said Pinkins
had every right to demand as much money as she could get from the
rich people — "The Forbes 20," let's call them — who are producing
the show.

"They can afford to pay her a lot more than $2,000 a week, and they
should," said one producer. "She's an important part of the show. It
couldn't move to Broadway without her."

And unlike the authors of the show, who stand to make money from
subsequent productions that will surely flow from the Broadway
engagement, Pinkins will only get paid while she's in the show.

[mamamia sammy]

Posted: 3/13/04 at 11:29am

You call me a blowhard?

And yes you did give out wrong information. She never told the cast she was going into the show. Trust me.

PS.the producers of the off-broadway production of raisin in the sun have booked the Shubert Theater starting in April. Guess the gypsy folk realize its not gonna run after bernadette leaves."

[musicaltheatreman]

Posted: 3/13/04 at 5:46pm

for the info bret! where did you read that artical??? thanks :)