B'way Ticket "Fees" Bypass Artist Royalties

Nice idea the Broadway League had back in 2008 to start slapping an extra $1 fee on every ticket sold at the TKTS discount booths.  Not only was it more cash--but cash not accounted for under "box office."  That means when certain artists get paid royalties as a percentage of said box office... well, you get the picture.

Well thanks to the directors' union (Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, aka SDC), a labor arbitrator has ruled the practice illegal!

So the producers will have to come up with some other way of amassing "tax free" income.

One wonders, too--will they keep the fee?  Or would they rather give the dollar back to consumers than share it with artists?