That's certainly possible, but, if you were the director of a long running show, and decided you wanted to get rid of a long time actor with a contract, wouldn't your first move be to call a meeting with the producers and/or general management to state your case and see what's possible under that actor's contract?
I feel like being a dick in a rehearsal, in an attempt to make the actor quit, isn't the most efficient way to go about this, especially when the sums of money that we're talking about here wouldn't even be drop in the bucket of what this production has earned over the years, including with many performances featuring this actor.
I know that Walter Bobbie can be a dick. He's been a dick to me. I'm sure everyone is a dick sometimes to someone. But you really don't want to do exactly what's been reported happened here, because that would seem to open the producers and everyone involved to a harassment lawsuit from the actor, which would surely cost a lot more than just paying out his contract. I wish that this actor had done just that, rather than what he did do, assuming that what's been reported is true. |
