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re: Details on child actors in the West End

Posted by:	NewtonUK 09:08 am EDT 09/08/14
In reply to:	Lloyd Webber backs new child actor plans - CamMacFan 08:46 am EDT 09/08/14

This is not the issue. The article below covers a lot of territory. British equity suggests - not requires - that child actors be paid 50% of the adult minimum. For example, on broadway, all the Matildas recived Broadway minimum - around $1800 a week. In Lond they reciver around $425 a week each. Famously in Cameron Mackintosh's OLIVER at Drury Lane, Oliver and the Artful Dodger got $60-$100 per performance. The UK theory has been that what you pay a number of children to cover a role 8 times a week, adds up to more or less one salary. This is what ALW would like to see reformed
Link	http://theatremonkeybook.com/2013/08/15/844/

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