브로드웨이 노조 파업
브로드웨이 노조 파업
The curtain never went up 오르다 on Broadway this weekend. “It got striked out.” When stagehands 무대 담당원, < 조명 담당·소품 담당 등> walked off the job and shut down one of New York’s biggest tourist attractions. “I had to disappoint him and tell him that we couldn’t see the show today. “I feel horrible. Horrible.”
For now, there’s no ‘let’s go on with the show.’ No a chorus line. Just a picket line and it’s not just the audiences who are upset 화가 난, 당황한. “I didn’t sleep last night.” Actor David Hyde Pierce is starring ~에서 주연하다 in the hit show, Curtains. What does it do to a show when you have to shut down? “Well, it, depending on how long you have to shut down, it can do everything from kill the momentum 탄력, 힘 of the show to kill the show.”
Broadway producers accuse 비난하다 the striking stagehands who have starting salaries 초봉 of more than $100,000, a featherbedding 과잉고용요구. “The guy who mops ~을 자루걸레로 청소하다 the stage everyday in the theater which takes about 10 minutes on those shows gets paid an extra $500 a week for doing that.”
Union leaders say they’re willing to make concessions 양보하다, but don’t like being cast 배역하다 as crooks <구어> 악한. “And as they continue to say featherbedding and they keep telling basically that we’re thieves, we’re not going to back to the table with lack of… respect.”
The theater owners estimate the strike is costing the city $17 million a day. And no matter how long it lasts, Broadway could end up paying an even higher price 큰 대가를 치르다. “People travel all…from all over the world to come here to see the plays. So…when you can’t see them, very disappointing.” After being shut out of the show, Wicked, this weekend, the Haymen family from Toronto made a decision that should send a chill up ~을 공포로 떨게 하다 Broadway. “Next time, we’re going to