| That's Show Biz, kids. | |
| Posted by: NYtheatreMAN 12:13 pm EDT 05/27/23 | |
| In reply to: HERE LIES LOVE to open with no live musicians - selmerboy 03:38 pm EDT 05/25/23 | |
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| I have read this entire thread and it's almost entertaining how there are three wildly different conversations unfolding and I think that demonstrates the REAL struggle here. A good number of posters are arguing entirely for the "show".. artistic choice and artistic intent, screw the CBA agreements and house minimums, etc etc etc. A good number of posters are arguing entirely for the "business".. CBA agreements and house minimums are all that matter, screw the artistic intent, etc etc etc Both sides are correct and neither side wants to hear the other. A minority of posters are talking "show business, where these two competing interests have to interact and satisfy their valid and necessary needs. At the end of the day, both sides have dropped the ball here and it should not have progressed to this point in the process, let alone come to public light NOW. An agreement is possible, there are several rough frameworks in existing CBA that can be adapted to handle this, and neither side should walk out of this situation happy and, honestly do not deserve to. And can we please stop the rhetoric of "if this happens no show will ever have a live orchestra again"? I can't think of any functional producing entity that sees a fully recorded score as ideal or wanted and when we had this debate during previous negotiations and several shows tried it, no one liked the result. The technology has progressed significantly and is a wonderful sweetener where necessary but it never captures live musicianship. Even in London, that does not share our musician minimums in houses, they have not tossed out live musicians. (Yes, I know Phantom has 14 there now, which would never fly here, but their crew numbers are also smaller and flexible across the pond..) |
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