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rauchway.bsky.social • 5 hours ago

you must be joking

Reposted from Amber Sparks

How precisely are you going to put on these Broadway shows without Actor’s Equity

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arcadesrevenge.bsky.social•5 hours ago

So... Community Theatre?

speck0dust.bsky.social•4 hours ago

The Kennedy Center Carnival and Pawn Shop

warrenterra.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Via @madamehardy.bsky.social in the replies, this link lists thetouring shows that employ union performers - and non-equity shows that don't. There are a dozen famous, popular touring shows that don't (eg The Book Of Mormon, Chicago, Hadestown, and a whole bunch of musicals based on 1990s movies).

rauchway.bsky.social•4 hours ago

The question is not whether they exist.

madamehardy.bsky.social•4 hours ago

The question was "How precisely are you going to put on these Broadway shows without Actor’s Equity" and I answered.

trumancapote.bsky.social•5 hours ago

It will be cruise ship entertainment, my apologies to cruise ship performers.

swalt06.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Stole this from Elayne Boosler:
2 hour “My Pillow” infomercial
Miss America Pageant
Re-runs of “The Apprentice”
Kayne West reads “Mein Kampf”
Bezos & Zuckerberg star in “Oklahoma”
Hulk Hogan reads Mark Twain

voxwoman.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Is this because of the word “equity” in the union name? Are they going to make bus transfers illegal now too?

plakor.bsky.social•4 hours ago

You are definitely on to something.

elkmovie.bsky.social•5 hours ago

There's a non-equity tour of Shrek and it looks like it was put on by an upscale suburban middle school: https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Video-Watch-All-New-Trailer-For-Reimagined-SHREK-THE-MUSICAL-Non-Equity-Tour-20240604

hollyak.bsky.social•4 hours ago

That the POTUS is at all involved in the operation of a theatre venue is insane.

plakor.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Maybe not too different from (nowhere is this real) "reality" TV.

joshuamzeitz.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Idk man, my kids’ middle school does a mean holiday show.

bunnyjenkins.bsky.social•3 hours ago

This is how you break stuff on purpose by accident.

textualdeviance.bsky.social•4 hours ago

I'm having visions of my ex's high school production of South Pacific, which involved a white girl doing brown face to play Bloody Mary.

kjkram.bsky.social•5 hours ago

All amateur dinner theater MAGA cast.

unionbbradschmid.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Y'all ready to pickett?

madwyer.bsky.social•4 hours ago

I wonder how the Teamsters are feeling about their non-endorsement now

snmaher.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Ridiculous!

joewkey.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Hey, a brain trust of Scott Baio, Kevin Sorbo, Rob Schneider, Lee Greenwood should be able to pull it off

heavydutyrunnin.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Don’t forget Kid Rock!

joewkey.bsky.social•4 hours ago

He’ll be too busy with Boebert in the audience to be of any real use

bskwitter.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Animal acts, and ventriloquists. Balloons for the kids. Vaudeville revival.

bskwitter.bsky.social•4 hours ago

And John Ashcroft singing his inspirational numbers

luciav8285.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Lol lol

willpunctuate.bsky.social•4 hours ago

I hear the Trump University Players are available.

goesupto11.bsky.social•2 hours ago

So the Kennedy Center will become a community theatre. Terrific😢

alanfarago.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Trump wants to do the casting himself. With non equity actors from OnlyFans. @stephenathome

carlygoodman.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Gather round scabs it’s time to put on a show 👯‍♀️

eddiewojo.bsky.social•5 hours ago

And the trades unions are going to work lighting and backstage for these shows? LOL

akputney.bsky.social•4 hours ago

No. That’ll be Miller and the 2025 crew. They’re good at pulling strings.

jensand.bsky.social•2 hours ago

So, if no women performers, then will the straight, white men dress in drag? I thought they were against that sort of thing. Or are these white men going to rewrite the scripts to suit their white supremacist, male oriented world view?

lobellaaurora.bsky.social•4 hours ago

MAGA teens?

danielaphoto.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Once again these people show us they have no clue how anything works 🤷🏻‍♀️

itsallgreektome.bsky.social•4 hours ago

They will feature little X boing boing boinging his way thru Oliver, with his dad as Artful Dodger, trump as Mr Bumble & Pam Bondi as Mrs Corney & Stephen Miller as Fagan.

visionexecution.bsky.social•2 hours ago

When you rip funding for the arts and crush unions there probably will be a lot of non-equity performers performing for a pittance

stmdc.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Two words: MONSTER TRUCKS

blueheart-here.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Let's see. You could get Leavitt to come out from behind her podium and act like she is intelligent. You could get Homan to act like an empathetic human. Rubio could sink into a couch for comic relief. And then get McConnell to act like he never supported Trump. All experienced actors!

notpodium.bsky.social•4 hours ago

behind her *lectern

blueheart-here.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Sorry, OK, lectern.

notpodium.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Thx BH! 😀

coffeeblack121.bsky.social•4 hours ago

And if actors aren't union, neither are stagehands. This bonehead must be thinking about community theatre.

cokie-o.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Lara of course will be the lead! Quite a voice on that one, I am sure it will be a sell out!

gchernack.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Les Miz featuring Miss Abbott’s fifth grade class from Enid, Oklahoma. Timmy Johnson is wonderful as Jean Valjean.

claybobo.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Exactly!!!

rockthechalk.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Is this because they are cheap and anti-union or because they think "equity" makes it DEI?

rauchway.bsky.social•5 hours ago

also have they ever *seen* Fiddler on the Roof, do they know what it’s about

warrenterra.bsky.social•4 hours ago

Of fucking *course* they're going to do Fiddler, they *love* to portray themselves as sympathetic to victims of antisemitism, preferably to imagined versions of antisemitism and antisemitism in the distant past, even while they don't give a shit about actual Jews and they actively hate all refugees.