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Equity Scale for ensemble members is around $1400 a week. "Name" actors make more. Example: Julia Roberts is making $35,000 a week in 3 Days of Rain.

The only exception to this rule are the cast of the various non-profit productions. Roundabout operates using off-Broadway contract. Therefore, Harry Connick Jr is making $1100 a week.

Updated On: 4/17/06 at 04:04 PM

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1100? is that for ALL off-broadway shows? i thought they would make more than that!

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Equity minimum is $1422. Principals make more depending on experience, name recognition and (sometimes) the size of the role. A tiny handful of stars have made $40-50K/week (and even a bit more), but that is very rare and reserved only for those celebrities whose names sell tickets due to success in film and tv, beyond their stage work.

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Roundabout, Lincoln Center and MTC do not use an off-broadway contract for their Broadway venues, but a LORT A contract, which is very different (off-Broadway contracts typically pay about half that $1050, at most, for the really established theatres; most pay much less than even that). There are some 60+ not-for-profit theatres around the country that operate under a LORT A contract (the Goodman, the Taper, Arena, La Jolla etc). There are various restrictions for the three NY LORT theatre companies, one being that after a show has run at one of their theatres for a certain length of time (10 - 12 weeks), if they wish to extend beyond that, then the theatre must adopt the stanard Broadway production contract and begin to pay the actors at least the Equity minimum of $1422.

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True, I believe Ring of Fire is using that pay scale.

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I just saw a contract for sale on ebay. It was from 1937, for Victor Moore (the Nathan Lane of his time) to appear for one 15 minute radio performance. $2000.00. In 1937. Two thousand bucks, I just googled, in '37 dollars, that was worth 26,270 dollars today. For 15 minutes work.

I am in the wrong job at the wrong time.

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