| Back in the old days, Chorus Equity and Actors' Equity were separate organizations. When they merged in 1955, the body that had been the Council of Chorus Equity became the ACCA. They exist, as the name implies, to advise Equity's council on issues relevant to actors working on chorus contracts. Recently, you probably heard about the union's decision to rename the robe presented to veteran Broadway chorus members on their opening nights -- that proposal came to Equity's council through the ACCA. I just looked in the NY Times Archives, and the first reference to the ACCA was from shortly after the merger, when the number needed for a quorum at Equity Council meetings was raised. The paper speculated it was to ensure that no one faction could outmaneuver the other, but there was no official confirmation there. |
