Sunday, November 25, 2007
Curtain Goes Up for Broadway's 'Grinch'
Backstage: "Said producer James Sanna just before the 11 a.m. performance (the first of four on Friday) began: 'This may be the first time in Broadway history a producer has made a curtain speech on two consecutive performances. The first one was a traditional one on our opening night and now 14 days later on our reopening. ... We have faced lots and lots of obstacles and we are very happy to be back. But if there ever was a show and a company that deserves to be back, it is ours. I am very proud and humbled the way the whole company rallied around us on this.'"
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wow, a judge ordering a theater to re-open. now THAT's cool. So, okay, the stagehands are still not working under a contract, but the fact that the law can just order a private venue to re-open despite a strike and such...now that's power. if only the law could figure out how to order the re-opening and welcoming of logic and common sense into the whitehouse...hmm...
I wish this article would have gone into greater detail about how the producers got the show reopened. I would have liked to see the faces of the local one crew when they were told they had to go back to work. They were most likely upset, but they should be happy. The union guys on shows that are running right now have the best of both worlds. Their “brothers” are fighting to get them a better contract and they still get to work. I wonder if the union members who are working right now are donating to the union?
Now I am really curious about a judge ordering the reopening of a show. How does Local 1 feel about that. Is the judge overruling the union and forcing the stagehands to work or did they have to get non-union workers? If the stagehands where to refuse to work on the show what would happen? It seems very dangerous to me to have the law overruling a union strike this way.
If they can get one show reopened, what if they go and bring other cases to a judge. Though, the other shows don't have quite the same issue with the Holiday time-frame. I guess they couldn't argue, as the judge ruled "the production company would be irreparably harmed if the show wasn't permitted to resume its run." And I suppose that's true, because something that's I guess it's also good that show reopened, cuz it was the one getting all the bad press. What about the other two dozen shows affected? They don't seem to get any press.
I think the thing that impresses me the most is how fast they got a ruling from the someone from the state Supreme Court. Most of the time those petitions take more than two weeks to come to any sort of fruition. If anything, I'm glad that this really helps out the company putting on the show since due to the limited run of the show. I wonder if this will cause any other shows to jump to the conclusion that they too are special enough for this to be true about them as well...
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