From the outside: Since they'll be looking for relief for themselves and all others similarly situated, they might be trying to get a remedy sufficient to get the whole machine up and running again. And a rental house one step up from a big room at Shetler isn't ever going to have to go into the room to hash things out with the unions -- that will be the individual productions down the line. So if the class representatives are typical and adequate, the legit houses might be perfectly willing to free-ride for a bit. It's like playing the roll in a nickel-ante game -- never lead with two jakes.
Flip side: Interesting that a few of these venues are closely tied to bars/table service. This also might have been thought up as a second front for the big restaurant class-action that's apparently still percolating -- these venues look like the sort of places that a non-theatre person might think Off-Broadway to be. In the ABC's, occasional features on local TV.
Not expert, not advice, don't rely, likely wrong. Cheers.
~pcot |
