| re: Larry Owens & A Strange Loop | |
| Last Edit: Singapore/Fling 01:16 pm EDT 07/25/24 | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 01:08 pm EDT 07/25/24 | |
| In reply to: re: Larry Owens & A Strange Loop - Chazwaza 01:35 am EDT 07/25/24 | |
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| For the period that Owens was on contract. This is no different than bringing on a physical therapist for dancers, which non-profit theaters do all the time. Your question is a valid one, but the way you are posing reads to me as carrying a whiff of ridicule, as if the idea is inherently absurd. I don't think it is. A non-profit spending money? Playwrights built a sound-proof studio with a live on-stage mixing board for "Stereophonic", and I think they paid for the actors to do music lessons, so why would a therapist be such a big ask? That show also went to Broadway, and that show picked up a Pulitzer prize for them, so the expense would have been low, and Owens would have had his needs met and would have felt safe. And what would it have cost them? Let's say $150 a week, for 3-4 weeks of rehearsal and then, what, 5 - 8 weeks of a run? Max those numbers out and we're at $1,800. That's pocket change. Double those numbers, and you're still under $5K for the lead of a musical that is heading to Broadway. I've seen more money spent on scenery that is cut during tech. Sometimes when actors "highjack" a process, it's because they aren't being taken care of. We aren't hearing or seeing evidence of Owens being a problem on other projects - I don't think he'd be recurring on "Abbot Elementary" if he was a pain on set - so this behavior could well have been an outgrowth of toxicity in the process, especially when you're collaborating with an artist as recalcitrant, reactionary, and demanding as Michael R. Jackson. It's not a big ask, and it's an easy fix. |
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