NFTRW Weekly Top Five

Here are the top five comment generating posts of the past week:

Broadway Producer Garth Drabinsky Sues Actors’ Equity For $50M

Deadline: Three months after his hoped-for Broadway comeback Paradise Square closed amidst bad box office, legal battles, a Covid outbreak and allegations of a toxic work environment, producer Garth Drabinsky is suing Actors’ Equity for $50 million, accusing the union of waging “an intentional campaign of harassment and abuse” when it placed the Canada-based Drabinsky on its Do Not Work list last summer.

Posted by David at 10/21/2022 01:19:00 PM

Covid Still Heckling Broadway With Canceled Performances And Cast Substitutions

Deadline: Covid isn’t done with New York’s theater scene just yet. At least four Broadway and major Off Broadway productions have either canceled or postponed performances or temporarily replaced principal cast members in the last week due to the virus.

Posted by David at 10/21/2022 01:18:00 PM

N.J. high school reverses decision to cancel production of musical ‘The Prom’ after backlash

nj.com: The show will in fact go on at Cedar Grove High School after school officials backtracked on a plan to cancel a student production of the “The Prom,” a musical about a lesbian student who wants to bring her girlfriend to her school prom.

Posted by David at 10/19/2022 10:16:00 AM

FTC Announces Plans to Issue "Drip Pricing" Fee Regulations

www.ticketnews.com: The Federal Trade Commission voted to issue an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Junk Fees on Thursday, which could involve regulation surrounding so-called “drip pricing” tactics in event ticketing. Drip pricing is the tactic of showing one price to consumers at the start of a transaction, only to have unavoidable fees added later on, which many characterize as a deceptive trade practice.

Posted by David at 10/21/2022 01:22:00 PM

New Campaign Calls on Regulators to Break Up Ticketmaster

www.ticketnews.com: A new campaign launched this week is calling on federal regulators to break up Ticketmaster and Live Nation, which merged in 2010, arguing that the combined company abuses its market power. The #breakupticketmaster campaign asks the Department of Justice to use its power to reverse the merger’s approval. Such action would force the massive promotional giant and the massive ticketing vendor to operate independently once more, would restore some level of competition to an industry that many argue is being destroyed by the monopolistic giant at its center.

Posted by David at 10/20/2022 02:49:00 PM