[Mb-hair] More Broadway, (Baby)...

[richard haase]

hal prince also is in a sense of the old guard
those of us who are younger have bent the unions etc
also prince resources does not have the pressing need
for structural innovation

but yeah one can get around the unions very much
i dont know; the guilds are better
eg the dramatists guild, the wga , the ssdc
equity is in parts a bitch
the only union that prevents their actors from working
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "richard haase" <hotprojects at nyc.rr.com>
To: <mb-hair at islandlists.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 8:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] More Broadway, (Baby)...


> the ballrooms etc are not long gone
> just forgotten
> not as gone as you think
> and youre not correcting me were having interchange its great
> what part of the country are you in
> are you in nyc like me?
> this is great to go back and forth
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jim Burns" <jameshburns at webtv.net>
> To: <mb-hair at islandlists.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 5:21 AM
> Subject: [Mb-hair] More Broadway, (Baby)...
>
>
> >
> > Now, not to correct you...
> >
> > :-)
> >
> > But I may have hit the wrong key. LITTLE WOMEN may have been brought in
> > for LESS than 5.8 million...
> >
> > And WICKED is one of the INCREDIBLE sucess stories--
> >
> > GROSSING almost ONE-AND-A-QUARTER-MILLION DOLLARS--
> >
> >
> >  A week.
> >
> >
> > The show is a cash machine, made all the more remarkable, because, flaws
> > and all--it's a bit uneven, occasonally slow--at its heart, it's about
> > intolerance--
> >
> > And the power of love.
> >
> > And taking truth, to power...
> >
> >
> > And, it's one of he few shows on Broadway over in the massive, 1600-plus
> > seat Gershwin), that FEELS like a Broadway show...
> >
> >
> > (Actually, to me, the most remarkable Broadway success story of the
> > moment, is PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. Revitalized by the movie, the Broadway
> > show has been back to selling over NINETY PERCENT OF ITS TICKETS, for
> > months--after running for about seventeen years.
> >
> > (A film version of a Broadway show, as many of you here, know, used to
> > mark the end of a long-time hit's main-stem reign.
> >
> >
> > (But CHICAGO has changed that paradigm.
> >
> >
> > (The unique element to the PHANTOM movie is that it's NOT a good
> > adaptation of the play. I had even wondered if it would hurt folks'
> > interest in the various stage PHANTOMS, around the country.
> >
> >
> > (But I've run into so many tourists, and native New Yorkers in the hours
> > after final curtain, around Broadway, who were finally driven to see
> > PHANTOM, live at the Majestic, BECAUSE they had loved the movie.
> >
> >
> > (The film clearly worked, for thoe wo had never seen the play.)
> >
> >
> > (Not unlike the HAIR movie, come to think of it... I've always consided
> > it a travesty. MANY long-time HAIR fans, though, got their fist exposure
> > to HAIR, of course, from the Milos-mash...)
> >
> >
> > To the other:
> >
> >
> > I've been thinking A LOT, lately, about aternative venues for staging
> > theatrial events.  But, the truth is, MANY of the great ballrooms, are
> > long gone.
> >
> > And those that exist, are oten priced as high as their theatrical
> > equivalents.
> >
> > (Quick aside, for tourists and natives alike: it can be great fun to
> > walk through the handful of old New York hotels, that still maintain
> > their 1930s-era ballrooms, and lobbies.  Much like so much of the better
> > heart of Manhattan, you can feel the past...)
> >
> > But there are some interesting possbilities, out there, for presenting
> > events...
> >
> >
> > But remember, venues aside, when doing a play, ultimately, you will
> > likely be dealing with unions. The're NOT your natural enemy. They've
> > generally had to raise their prices to deal with the economic realities
> > faced by their own membership.
> >
> > While there are theatrical horror stories of personages as esteemed as
> > Harold Prince not being able to get concessions, from some of the
> > unions--
> >
> > It is not impossible to regard the unions as your PARTNER in trying to
> > achieve something of value.
> >
> >
> > Virtually everyone on Broadway, and off, would rather be involved with
> > something, good.
> >
> >
> > And, as it's early in the morning, this gentleman of Broadway, must be
> > saying,
> >
> >
> > 'Good night.
> >
> >
> > ;-)
> >
> >
> > Jim Burns
> >
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