| re: The King And I national tour. In a word: Meh! | |
| Posted by: tmdonahue (tmdonahue@yahoo.com) 12:46 pm EST 11/20/17 | |
| In reply to: The King And I national tour. In a word: Meh! - jeffef 11:37 am EST 11/20/17 | |
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| Well, I think you saw a "Tier D" Equity tour, a cheaper tour that Equity negotiated to counter all the non-Equity tours that were out there before the tiering agreements. The actors get less money--everyone gets less money--because the producer is convinced the show has little odds of making money. I understand that there is some financial participation if, by some unknown good luck, the show does make a significant amount of money. From the Chicago Tribune: "The production contract, the holy grail for actors, still exists in touring theater. But it's limited to a very small number of massively successful shows: "Wicked," "Jersey Boys," "The Lion King," "The Book of Mormon." That's about all. Those shows pay their actors minimum salaries of $1,754 per week — and in practice, closer to $2,000, given the various add-ons for understudying and the like. But almost every other Equity show on the road — "Peter Pan," "Priscilla Queen of the Desert," even "Les Miserables" — operates under a different contract with a far lower minimum salary for actors. Under the now-common contracts called short engagement touring agreements (or SETAs), salaries are less than half the full rates. "With a kick. If the show sells well, the actors get "overages," a revenue-sharing deal that increases when shows have recouped their production costs." The ad language for the tour, relating it to the Broadway revival, is hokum. Perhaps you've had in the past before tiering, seen non-Equity shows, the stage filled with young people with the talent of an undergraduate college show. Not much fun. Not a good representation of what the original material can do for an audience. Not a good reflection of Broadway. SInce I see Broadway in situ several times a year, and live in a small city, I'm afraid I never go to the tours that stop here. The last I remember was a non-Equity "Annie Get Your Gun" that was embarrassing. (Years ago.) |
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