tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post5127645890215344046..comments2024-01-07T06:59:04.212-05:00Comments on The Playgoer: "What About The Children! Will Someone Please Think of the Children!"Playgoerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02994724588504353485noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post-65023017308201021942007-11-16T18:54:00.000-05:002007-11-16T18:54:00.000-05:00Oh, please! When we went to NYC last year, we att...Oh, please! When we went to NYC last year, we attended a play. We also did a whole lot of other things. Had the strike been on when we were in New York, I would have been disappointed. I would have hoped that it would have been settled before I left. But it wouldn't have ruined the whole trip for me. That kind of thing is just silliness.PeonInChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17611581585285022906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post-27209772982361599922007-11-12T23:22:00.000-05:002007-11-12T23:22:00.000-05:00And this is why Local One does not negotiate in th...And this is why Local One does not negotiate in the press. We see the media work up close on a regular basis. Some of us even split our time between Bway and television. How many shows have we read the reviews of and wondered what theatre that reviewer was in? It sure didn’t seem like the show I’ve just worked months on. Oh, and by the way, Mr. Powerful Reviewer had a “heavy dinner” and fell asleep for Act II and then wrote a pan. People don’t pay to watch scene changes and stagehands don’t expect to get a fair shake in the press. We don’t spend millions on advertising space and we suspect that just may have an influence on what is written. <BR/> We are part of organized labor and don’t expect our stories to be told. If you examine the proposals and the style of negotiation you can see that this isn’t really being driven by the financials. Typically we propose and they counter propose and you end up somewhere in the middle. That’s business. This is driven by an ideology, the theology of profit.One NYC StageHandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00544894693348152193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post-43521861094233071892007-11-12T20:47:00.000-05:002007-11-12T20:47:00.000-05:00it seems that both sides are being unimaginative h...it seems that both sides are being unimaginative here...<BR/><BR/>it's clear that the costs of broadway production are a huge barrier to variety and experiment. at the same time, stagehands need to make a decent living.<BR/><BR/>maybe the answer is to make the initial production as low-cost all round as possible, with the proviso that, as soon as the production recoups, there are substantial residuals paid to everyone initially involved - and that continue as long as the show runs. this way the long-running shows will subsidise, to a degree, the more experimental work...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com