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| re: Shockingly high salaries paid to "key" employees of non-profit theaters such as NYTW | |
| Posted by: whereismikeyfl 10:11 pm EDT 05/13/18 | |
| In reply to: Shockingly high salaries paid to "key" employees of non-profit theaters such as NYTW - summertheater 09:40 pm EDT 05/13/18 | |
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| I am a fan of your trolling. But this one is not worthy of you. It is more transparently fake than most of what you post. The quote around the work "key" is a step too far. And they lumping in of all employees in the average is too easy to dismiss. Can you do another one instead? |
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| re: Shockingly high salaries paid to "key" employees of non-profit theaters such as NYTW | |
| Posted by: summertheater 10:31 pm EDT 05/13/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Shockingly high salaries paid to "key" employees of non-profit theaters such as NYTW - whereismikeyfl 10:11 pm EDT 05/13/18 | |
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| The word "key" is taken straight from Form 990. The average of $8,000 means some are making more and some are making less. We can't tell the salaries of the non-key employees from the Form 990, but in total they are $2,434,054 for 292 employees. That's a pretty low number. The word "talented" to describe NYTW's "key" employees listed on the Form 990 is subject to interpretation. On another point, from looking at their upcoming season, some may question whether there is a political litmus test you must pass in order to get your work produced by NYTW. I don't believe that's very welcoming to ALL New Yorkers. Theater should be welcoming to ALL. But in this highly polarized environment, only one side of the political spectrum is produced over and over and over again. |
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| re: Shockingly high salaries paid to "key" employees of non-profit theaters such as NYTW | |
| Posted by: BruceinIthaca 02:49 pm EDT 05/14/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Shockingly high salaries paid to "key" employees of non-profit theaters such as NYTW - summertheater 10:31 pm EDT 05/13/18 | |
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| Well, I doubt the Passion Play at Oberammmergau felt very welcoming to Jews, so there's that.... | |
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| re: Shockingly high salaries paid to "key" employees of non-profit theaters such as NYTW | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 12:46 pm EDT 05/14/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Shockingly high salaries paid to "key" employees of non-profit theaters such as NYTW - summertheater 10:31 pm EDT 05/13/18 | |
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| You have never backed up your accusations of NYTW's season being super left leaning, and you didn't express a problem with them until they hired Robert O'Hara. Just admit you hate the guy and leave it at that. | |
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| re: Shockingly high salaries paid to "key" employees of non-profit theaters such as NYTW | |
| Posted by: summertheater 03:16 pm EDT 05/14/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Shockingly high salaries paid to "key" employees of non-profit theaters such as NYTW - Singapore/Fling 12:46 pm EDT 05/14/18 | |
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| Do you honestly believe their show Sanctuary City will present both sides 50 50 ? | |
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| re: Shockingly high salaries paid to "key" employees of non-profit theaters such as NYTW | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 07:12 pm EDT 05/14/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Shockingly high salaries paid to "key" employees of non-profit theaters such as NYTW - summertheater 03:16 pm EDT 05/14/18 | |
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| Based on their blurb, I think "Sanctuary City" will present immigrants as human beings whose lives have merit. Is that a one sided proposition? Once we have seen it, we'll have a better sense of its politics, but for now we only know that it intends to explore the humanity of immigrants. More troubling than your advance judgement, you offer a poor metric from which to evaluate a play. First you demand that a play have no political or humanitarian point of view, then you declare that any play which does (or threatens to) express a point of view as being radical left. You waste no opportunity to decry censorship, and yet you're asking that playwrights and theaters censor themselves in order to conform to your political ou're social point of view. Of course, leftist politics in the theater i's nothing new. The theater has a long history of using the stage as a place to appeal on behalf of those who society rejects or abuses, and NYTW has always been a left-of-center theater - but not oneas radicalas though imagine. You may disagree with their politics, but you may not invent an agenda for them based on nothing but your own suspicions and sensitivities. |
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| re: Shockingly high salaries paid to "key" employees of non-profit theaters such as NYTW | |
| Posted by: drummergirl 05:56 pm EDT 05/14/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Shockingly high salaries paid to "key" employees of non-profit theaters such as NYTW - summertheater 03:16 pm EDT 05/14/18 | |
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| I'm going to regret jumping into the fray: but why does any show have to offer "two sides" of a story? It's not journalism. Life is short, friend. I don't worry about writers, directors, actors or theatre companies I don't like. I just stop supporting their work. | |
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| re: Shockingly high salaries paid to "key" employees of non-profit theaters such as NYTW | |
| Posted by: MikeR 11:42 am EDT 05/15/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Shockingly high salaries paid to "key" employees of non-profit theaters such as NYTW - drummergirl 05:56 pm EDT 05/14/18 | |
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| Yes. This. There is no "fairness doctrine" for theater. Playwrights have no obligation to present anything other than the story they wish to tell. If "summertheater" does not wish to see or hear a particular story, he should vote with his wallet and stay home. | |
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| re: Shockingly high salaries paid to "key" employees of non-profit theaters such as NYTW | |
| Posted by: 37Rubydog 11:34 am EDT 05/14/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Shockingly high salaries paid to "key" employees of non-profit theaters such as NYTW - summertheater 10:31 pm EDT 05/13/18 | |
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| If memory serves, on form 990, "key" does not equate to importance....it usually refers to the top 5-10 highest paid employees/board members....it is an accounting-based instruction - not a judgement call. | |
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| re: Shockingly high salaries paid to "key" employees of non-profit theaters such as NYTW | |
| Posted by: whereismikeyfl 12:42 am EDT 05/14/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Shockingly high salaries paid to "key" employees of non-profit theaters such as NYTW - summertheater 10:31 pm EDT 05/13/18 | |
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| You just made it worse. You put quotes around "key" to imply that the term was misused, and now you pretended that you did not mean it that way but are just quoting. The idea that a theater should be welcoming to all political beliefs is consistent with the character of "summertheater," but you introduced it too late to be convincing as a sincere concern. |
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| re: Shockingly high salaries paid to "key" employees of non-profit theaters such as NYTW | |
| Posted by: JohnPopa 10:08 am EDT 05/14/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Shockingly high salaries paid to "key" employees of non-profit theaters such as NYTW - whereismikeyfl 12:42 am EDT 05/14/18 | |
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| I agree that the reintroduction of the political bias in play choices feels forced here, as if 'summertheater' realized this post wasn't as inflammatory as usual and wanted to move back to a well-tried piece of bait. | |
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| re: Shockingly high salaries paid to "key" employees of non-profit theaters such as NYTW | |
| Posted by: whereismikeyfl 02:27 pm EDT 05/14/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Shockingly high salaries paid to "key" employees of non-profit theaters such as NYTW - JohnPopa 10:08 am EDT 05/14/18 | |
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| If you wanted to collaborate, I think we could come up with better summertheater posts. | |
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| re: Shockingly high salaries paid to "key" employees of non-profit theaters such as NYTW | |
| Posted by: schlepper 02:50 pm EDT 05/14/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Shockingly high salaries paid to "key" employees of non-profit theaters such as NYTW - whereismikeyfl 02:27 pm EDT 05/14/18 | |
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| "If you wanted to collaborate, I think we could come up with better summertheater posts." It wouldn't be that hard to do. It seems that they're all variations on a theme. I was hoping it would be a series of two, or three at most... I guess art isn't easy! |
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| re: Shockingly high salaries paid to "key" employees of non-profit theaters such as NYTW | |
| Posted by: Seth Christenfeld (tabula-rasa@verizon.net) 11:20 pm EDT 05/13/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Shockingly high salaries paid to "key" employees of non-profit theaters such as NYTW - summertheater 10:31 pm EDT 05/13/18 | |
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| On another point, from looking at their upcoming season, some may question whether there is a political litmus test you must pass in order to get your work produced by NYTW. You are the only person who questions that. Seth, wondering if it's lonely on Contrarian Mountain |
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