| re: How did Equity allow there to be 2 Paul Rudd’s? | |
| Last Edit: AlanScott 03:54 am EST 02/17/19 | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 03:52 am EST 02/17/19 | |
| In reply to: How did Equity allow there to be 2 Paul Rudd’s? - KingSpeed 05:32 am EST 02/13/19 | |
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| It wasn't till the mid or late 1960s that Equity started not allowing two people to use the same names. This was confirmed to me several years ago by someone who worked at Equity and was very kind in answering a question I had about two actors who used the same name during the 1960s. I called just to confirm that they were two different people. Later when I called again to ask a similar question about two other people, a different person refused to give me an answer, saying Equity was not allowed to give out that sort of info. What the person I spoke to the first time did not make clear (probably didn’t know) was that there was a basic restriction, which I later came to understand (I think by coming across an article in which it was discussed): It could only happen if one of the actors worked under contracts for principals and the other actor worked under chorus contracts. The Equity person who was helpful told me that the member who was already in Equity when the other one joined had to give permission to the person who joined later. I think that wasn't true. IIRC, the article I found said that several Equity members were objecting to the fact that a member who joined later was using the same name they were using, so clearly those Equity members had not given their permission, and this led to the change. You may very occasionally come across an ibdb page for someone in which there are some credits that seem to make no sense. You may see a chorus credit in the midst of credits for leading roles in nonmusicals. When you see that, the explanation is usually that two people were using the same name at the same time. I wrote ibdb once or twice about such cases, but I got such remarkably dense replies that I stopped (although the changes were made). |
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