<![CDATA[Broadway Stagehands Strike, Steal Christmas! - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Broadway Stagehands Strike, Steal Christmas! - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Broadway Stagehands Strike, Steal Christmas!]]> @cmd: Tell me about it. We're a bunch of catbags, we are.

hotcheetos

]]> <![CDATA[Broadway Stagehands Strike, Steal Christmas!]]> anything that contributes to the misery of clueless wealthy tourists can only a good thing. it's ironic that the least deserving segment of society is what keeps these theaters in business. it's too bad it does not seem to trickle down!

SeaBassTian

]]> <![CDATA[Broadway Stagehands Strike, Steal Christmas!]]> I was just outside in Rock Center. I think the TKTS people sent all the tourists over here. It's hell.

TheGintheCity

]]> <![CDATA[Broadway Stagehands Strike, Steal Christmas!]]> @baronessvonsnarky:
Wimpy AEA will surely lay down and take it up the ass when our contract goes up.

cmd

]]> <![CDATA[Broadway Stagehands Strike, Steal Christmas!]]> Well, "Black Watch" was awesome. Too bad it's closing. It's too political for those tourrorists anyway.

smitty

]]> <![CDATA[Broadway Stagehands Strike, Steal Christmas!]]> Well, of course the press is anti-union: It's the producers who buy the advertising, not the stagehands.

GothamTomato

]]> <![CDATA[Broadway Stagehands Strike, Steal Christmas!]]> I never understood why those elves up at the North Pole let that fat cat boss take such advantage!

Carol Gardens

]]> <![CDATA[Broadway Stagehands Strike, Steal Christmas!]]> Europeans are probably more shocked that Americans still know what the hell a strike even is. The dailies are typically disgusting, but i'm waiting to see "Jail Em!" with prison bars photoshopped onto a photo of the Grinch ala Roger Toussaint.

dola

]]> <![CDATA[Broadway Stagehands Strike, Steal Christmas!]]> While it may be their first action in 121 years, it should be noted that they (and AE) honored the AFM picket line that shut down Broadway a few years ago instead of taking reporting pay. The AFM picket line is still the coldest I have ever been on. The only thing better than watching tourist kids from Kansas cry over the Lion King, is watching those tears freeze on contact to their pink little faces.

extended_forecast

]]> <![CDATA[Broadway Stagehands Strike, Steal Christmas!]]> @Carol Gardens: Actors Equity has a contract renewal in '08 as well... Without writers, actors, and theatre people are going to have to go to museums or read books for entertainment!

baronessvonsnarky

]]> <![CDATA[Broadway Stagehands Strike, Steal Christmas!]]> Good things authors don't have unions, although if James Patterson and Dan Brown wanted to go on strike and not produce anything for soem time, I'd happily let them.

Ed

]]> <![CDATA[Broadway Stagehands Strike, Steal Christmas!]]> @drivenbyboredom: I occasionally kick the living' shit out of a Best Boy.

atipofthehat

]]> <![CDATA[Broadway Stagehands Strike, Steal Christmas!]]> We need to round up a bunch of people with baseball bats and black jacks and go down there and bust some heads like in the good old days. I have been looking for a reason to fight some stage hands...

drivenbyboredom

]]> <![CDATA[Broadway Stagehands Strike, Steal Christmas!]]> @TyraMale: and "lest"--Jesus--maybe I should stop fucking my secretary during dictation.

TyraMale

]]> <![CDATA[Broadway Stagehands Strike, Steal Christmas!]]> @TyraMale: :"during the show"-arrgh!

TyraMale

]]> <![CDATA[Broadway Stagehands Strike, Steal Christmas!]]> @ediebeale:

The day they add an animatronic dog to OSAGE and replace all that swearing with wan musical numbers is the day the average Broadway tourist will give it a chance...

City_Dater

]]> <![CDATA[Broadway Stagehands Strike, Steal Christmas!]]> Please everybody, come to Mary Poppins where I'm a lowly usher! Harass me! When I'm working the elevator, comment on how it's like being in the tower of terror! When I tell you to watch your step, make fun of me and then trip while you're making the joke and make me smile inside! Ask me if your children can have two booster cushions to sit on instead of one! Ask me if you can sit on the stairs because you don't understand that a standing room ticket means your fat ass has to stand for three hours! Take pictures doing the show so I have to pounce on you less The Maus crawls up my ass and eats me from the inside! C'mon, ya'll, come see a Broadway show! Merry Christmas!!!

TyraMale

]]> <![CDATA[Broadway Stagehands Strike, Steal Christmas!]]> @baronessvonsnarky: Well, SAG/AFTRA in 2008 is quite likely. DGA won't strike.

Carol Gardens

]]> <![CDATA[Broadway Stagehands Strike, Steal Christmas!]]> @atipofthehat: and you would've gotten away with it too, if it hadn't been for those crazy kids.

summeroflove

]]> <![CDATA[Broadway Stagehands Strike, Steal Christmas!]]> @LolCait:
Watch out for that sandbag!

Gee, that was close!

atipofthehat

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6:30 - 7:46

atipofthehat

]]> <![CDATA[Broadway Stagehands Strike, Steal Christmas!]]> Can we start a pool on which union strikes next?
Do personal assistants have a union?!?!?

baronessvonsnarky

]]> <![CDATA[Broadway Stagehands Strike, Steal Christmas!]]> @ediebeale: "I came all the way from Fort Lauderdale to see the new Conor McPherson. Thank god Theresa Rebeck's new one is still on. Now, which way to TGIFriday's?"

LolCait

]]> <![CDATA[Broadway Stagehands Strike, Steal Christmas!]]> Tourists refuse to leave the Times Square area to see theater. Apparently, unless their tickets cost them as much as another night in their overpriced hotel rooms, they don't see the point.

And actually seeing MAMA MIA! is potentially more traumatizing than pocketing the refund and taking the kiddies ice skating or some shit.

City_Dater

]]> <![CDATA[Broadway Stagehands Strike, Steal Christmas!]]> I might feel a lot worse if every fucking tourist they interview wasn't going to see awful, awful crap. I'd love a pullquote along the lines of, "I've been a Tracy Letts fan since Killer Joe, and now I'm bring deprived of August: Osage County. GODAMMIT."

ediebeale

]]> <![CDATA[Broadway Stagehands Strike, Steal Christmas!]]> The staff at American Girls store must be psyched!

Queen of the Passive Aggressives

]]> <![CDATA[Broadway Stagehands Strike, Steal Christmas!]]> @atipofthehat: You're right to blame me. I only pay my three stagehands for a two hour day.

LolCait

]]> <![CDATA[Broadway Stagehands Strike, Steal Christmas!]]> There are still like eight Broadway shows that are running. Most if not all of the Disney ones, I believe. As well as Young Frankenstein. Hooray.

LolCait

]]> <![CDATA[Broadway Stagehands Strike, Steal Christmas!]]> Heaven forbid there are any script writers that moonlight as stagehands. They are totally fucked.

Pop Socket

]]> <![CDATA[Broadway Stagehands Strike, Steal Christmas!]]> Hooray! Unhappy tourists! I saw a group of little girls crying in front of Wicked yesterday and just laughed and laughed!

NewMrsAstor

]]> <![CDATA[Broadway Stagehands Strike, Steal Christmas!]]> I blame LolCait.

atipofthehat

]]> <![CDATA[Broadway Stagehands Strike, Steal Christmas!]]> This reminds me of the pandemonium wreaked by the great elf strike at the North pole in '84.

collegecallgirl

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