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| Posted by: ryhog 02:39 pm EDT 05/28/23 | |
| In reply to: re: WGA Asks Members Not to Attend Tony Awards - MockingbirdGirl 01:55 pm EDT 05/28/23 | |
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| and Kushner, of course, has a ton of writing credits. | |
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| re: WGA Asks Members Not to Attend Tony Awards | |
| Posted by: JohninChicago 06:18 pm EDT 05/28/23 | |
| In reply to: re: WGA Asks Members Not to Attend Tony Awards - ryhog 02:39 pm EDT 05/28/23 | |
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| Quite a few of the writer nominees are WGA members, it appears. WGA West has a searchable database of members online. I looked for all the writing nominees and found the following Play Stephen Adly Guirgis Martyna Majok James Ijames Tom Stoppard Book of a Musical Matthew Lopez Amber Ruffin Robert Horn David West Read Music and Lyrics Cameron Crowe Marc Shaiman Scott Wittman So four of the five nominees for Best Play and the entire writing team of Some Like It Hot. I guess this will help to keep the time devoted to acceptance speeches short. |
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| re: WGA Asks Members Not to Attend Tony Awards | |
| Posted by: kess0078 11:53 am EDT 05/29/23 | |
| In reply to: re: WGA Asks Members Not to Attend Tony Awards - JohninChicago 06:18 pm EDT 05/28/23 | |
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| Additionally, Sara Bareilles is a WGA member and is nominated for Best Actress in a Musical. | |
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| re: WGA Asks Members Not to Attend Tony Awards | |
| Posted by: broadwaybacker 02:24 pm EDT 05/29/23 | |
| In reply to: re: WGA Asks Members Not to Attend Tony Awards - kess0078 11:53 am EDT 05/29/23 | |
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| I know for a fact that David Javerbaum, who has written at least two Tony opening songs (and maybe more) was walking a WGAW picket line in LA a week ago.The songs I know he wrote are "Not for Gays Anymore" and "That Could Be Me." I wonder if we'll be seeing any original song used to open the Tonys this year. I seriously doubt it. |
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| re: WGA Asks Members Not to Attend Tony Awards | |
| Posted by: mikem 08:24 pm EDT 05/29/23 | |
| In reply to: re: WGA Asks Members Not to Attend Tony Awards - broadwaybacker 02:24 pm EDT 05/29/23 | |
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| I may have misunderstood, but I thought that part of the agreement was that no newly written material would be used, even if it was written before the strike. So no original host-led intro or closing material, although there could be an opening number that uses an old song. I don't really understand why the WGA would ask its members not to attend. Their best showcase would be if one of their members won and used the speech to talk about why the strike is important, rather than have non-WGA members tell us. And having the members not show up makes it easy to push the writing awards out of the main event and into the pre-show. |
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| re: WGA Asks Members Not to Attend Tony Awards | |
| Posted by: ryhog 10:32 pm EDT 05/29/23 | |
| In reply to: re: WGA Asks Members Not to Attend Tony Awards - mikem 08:24 pm EDT 05/29/23 | |
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| You did not misunderstand. I am not convinced we have seen the final iteration of what the understanding will be on 6/11, but there are arguments on both sides of the issue of what to allow members to do. A strike always hurts members and letting the guard down is viewed by some/many as allowing a crack in the fortress walls. (I am not here to debate that.) Beyond that, however, purely from a labor law standpoint, "no picket line" does not really relate to striking members. On the other hand, it is complicated. The WGA members who are nominated are not scabs; they are not working: no writers are. And the writers would not have been employed by a signatory to the AMPTP CBA in any event. (As I understand it, CBS is airing the show but is not producing it.) So I am not sure how this plays out. We shall see. |
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