| re: Actors Equity worse than Republican Party | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 01:40 am EDT 07/15/18 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 01:28 am EDT 07/15/18 | |
| In reply to: Actors Equity worse than Republican Party - Al10chim 04:19 am EDT 07/14/18 | |
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| I actually know some older actors who voted for the higher union dues, because they thought that by doing so it would give THEM the protection of not having to pay these dues that OTHERS would cover them for. Silly people. You voted the same way folks voted for Trump, and he is screwing the poor working farmers and factory workers by presuming all the mayhem he has propagated wouldn't impact YOU. You were wrong. It was too high a union dues rate, and there wasn't a public forum to discuss this. Union heads decided to just have this in writing on mailings and on the union website, but barring perhaps some comments (which other union members couldn't read), there was no thrashing of ideas and counterpoints, just some notice that (I'm paraphrasing) "your union representatives recommend you vote for these increases". There was no meaningful way to discuss this with a house full of interested actors on this issue or having some sort of dialogue on the union website. It's very fine to have various talented members in roles that were traditionally played by white actors; why not? It's been done in opera for years by famous singers like Leontyne Price and Kathleen Battle. Of course, famous white Otellos would be eviscerated nowadays for doing the role. Plus I wonder what would be a reaction behind the table it a white singer, say one who went to high school in Harlem and was in gospel choir and got the style exactly right, decided to audition for a production of "Ain't Misbehavin' " and gave the best audition of anyone. Would the person in the new position, whose mission is to promulgate diverse casting, meet with that white member if he wanted to put in a bid for something like that? Or a woman who wanted to play a man's role, or a man who wanted to play a traditional woman's role? Or would they be help trying to shut down a production of "The Mikado" because after many years of being enjoyed as a standard rep of operetta, people are now deciding that a satire of Britain placed among the the Japanese is now suddenly offensive to some, and thus entire productions should now be jettisoned or replaced by another G&S work in its place? If the "Mikado" offends someone (and lots more people seem to be enjoying by showing publicly and exhibitionistically how offended they are by things nowadays), don't buy a ticket to "The Mikado". I don't know who is getting $400K but everyone in Equity should be working for EVERYONE. |
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