Tough Times!
Filed under: Broadway Babies
To keep the show Young Frankenstein on the Great White Way, creator Mel Brooks and billionaire producer Robert F. X. Sillerman have taken the very unorthodox step of asking the show's lead actor to slash their salaries by 50%, according to new reports.
How rude!
The actors, whose contracts are up in August, were told last week that if they want to stay on they need to accept the cut.
To show they're serious the show suits openly met with possible replacements.
Producers not involved in Young Frankenstein call the drastic salary cuts unprecedented.
The actors and their agents are understandably upset about the pay cuts, but unless they get a TV series, they're unlikely to find a job as lucrative as Young Frankenstein–even at half their original salaries.
Decisions! Decision!
Sucks to be on his payroll!!!
Well then
3rd post?
if they are true actors, it is about the work not the salary. Suck it up and keep doing the work or quit, pretty simple really.
perez's hot topic line bombed! why don't you write about THAT perez?! or do you not want anyone to know only 6 people showed up and that nobody would take wrist bands from the creepy guy that was desperately trying to hand them out to anyone? Karma sure is a bitch. poor Mario.
Execs are playing hardball. Take it or leave it. The question is, is it really necessitated financially, or is it just a play for a bigger cut, hanging the actors out to dry?
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Next!!
i love the movie and i loved the broadway show….that stinks for them….is megan mullaly from will and grace still in it?
7th!!!
I loved YF, it's such an amusing show. Mel jinxed it by over-hyping it.
I don't see the cast staying after their contracts are up, as they are so insanely talented they probably know to move on to the next thing where they will be appreciated. Sutton Foster's leaving to do the Shrek musical anyway.
Re: clara –
THANKS FOR THE FREE PUBLICITY, MORON!
I saw that show! it's soooooooo good!!!
megan mullally was so funny in it! and so was roger bart and cristopher fitzgerald! excellent show!
I hope they take it. It's an amazing show, and it would be a shame for it not to keep running. The set is incredible!
Doesn't matter much for Sutton, she's already up to be in the musical version of Shrek. But that does suck for all those actors - maybe if tickets to the show weren't so ridiculously high, more people could see it!
Does it really matter? The lead actors and those from the first run never usually stay with a production for more than a year or two. It's about time for those actors to move on to other productions, and some C-listers to take their place. Which is a pity, because they have some good people in YF.
Maybe they can get Haylie Duff to do a reality show to replace them?
Megan Mullally already has a tv series pilot so i don't think she'll get to upset by the news
Re: clara – enough already…do you want everyone of your failures thrown in your face??
omg!! The super wealthy fuking over the rich!!?? Most middle class and poor I'm sure are thinking ( Mom!! My jail cell is only half the size of my bathroom!!) Yeah people!! Quote from nick hogan tapes!!
you have to be fucking kidding me!! im supposed to go see this soon! if roger bart isnt in it when i go, im going to kick someones ass!all of them better suck it up and stay with the show
Perez Hilton Bombs at Hot Topic
Perez Hilton may have made it to the top ten of the gossip heap with free publicity from lawsuits, and free appearances on radio and TV shows, but in real life no one cares about him. Last evening Perez held a meet-and-greet at Hot Topic in Hollywood where he was launching his cheap a** clothing line, and NO ONE SHOWED UP!!! HAHAHAH!!!!!!!
A witness who goes by the name Ester said:
"Some freaky lil employee with a handful of wrist bands asked if I wanted to meet Perez Hilton at 6pm! I was like NO, I just ate. NO one wanted wrist bans it was kinda funny."
Besides the embarrassment of having no "real life" fans outside the cyberworld, who launches a clothing line at Hot Topic? That’s trashier than launching a clothing line at Walmart, and yet Perez couldn’t even pull that off. WOW! That’s gotta be a blow to his HUGE ego.
HEY PEREZ! TELL EVERYONE THE GOSSIP ABOUT YOUR MEET AND GREET FOR YOUR ILL FATED CLOTHING LINE LAUNCH!!!!
FAIL! FAIL! FAIL!
HILARIOUS!
SHOW PICS! COME ON!
TALK ABOUT HOW MISERABLE YOU WERE!
WWW.THEDIRTY.COM GO SEE FOR YOUR SELF!
Let's see ,2 weeks ago Perez was complaining about the cast of the Simpsons asking for more money and now he is complaining because of the salary cut for the cast of Young Frankenstein, what an ass make up your mind.
Saw it when it was in previews. It sucked. I'm not surprised….
Its so sad. This is one of the best plays on broadway! its hysterical and the cast is so talented! Not to mention also the theatre seats are very comfortable.
I WAS AT THE SHOW ON FRIDAY JUNE 6TH, NONE OF THE LEAD ACTORS/ACTRESSES WERE IN THE SHOW….COULD THIS BE BECAUSE OF THEIR PAY CUTS????????????????????? I WAS MORE THAN DISSAPOINTED THAT I DID NOT GET TO SEE MEGAN MULLALY!!!! show was still good, however nothing could be better than the movie!!
I paid full price for this show last November, tickets can currently be had for half price. They were expecting another hit like "The Producers". that was so huge it won every theatre award the you had to get tickets months in advance.
Seven months after opening tickets are already at half, no major Tony nominations and a theatre far to big for any show to fill nightly.
A good start would be to move to a smaller theatre and in the future price tickets realistically, don't set the prices so high that they're out of reach for most people.
that is so shitty. THe show is great. The producers should eat shit. THe actors should walk
This entire production was a greed-fest right from the beginning…Brooks knew he could rake it in based on the success of the movie, even though it is now an amputation of the original screen play to fit the confines of a stage production…Mel Brooks used to be a "mensch" until his wife, Ann Bancroft, died…now he's just a money grubbing asshole.
Well when it comes to money you have to run anything like a business.
I hate that this is doing so poorly, it was one of the funniest shows I've seen on Broadway in a long time!
Guess overpaid actors are experiencing what the rest of us are.
Megan Mullally is the best! Met her after the show for my birthday. Just divine. But it's their choice megan has a pilot coming up already and sutton has shrek to do. so whatever. great show by the way. hilarious x 10000
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ACTUALLY THE WORLD IS ROUGH FOR ANY PROFESSION……ESPECIALLY SHOW BUSINESS
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UNLESS YOU'RE PACA……THAN YOUR ONLY BUSINESS IS POO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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PACA LOVES POO AND HE HOPES YOU DO TOO!!!!!!!!!
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HE HAS A DATE TODAY WITH MR. HANKEY THE CHRISTMAS POO…..HE LOVES YOU AND HE LOVES POO!!!!
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OH MY MOTHERFUCKING HOT DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
oh, man! i saw this play back in december, and it was sooooooooo funny! i feel bad for the actors now. =[ but hey, MEGAN MULLALLY, you can always move in with me!
www.megansmadams.com FTW!
how would roger bart be able to afford all of his lady friends with such a salary cut???? the poor guy. he might have to start stalking ushers at the st. james again….
I LOVE YOU MEL BROOKS!!!
Its no Producers! Quite boring, with few Tony nominations (Igor and Andrea Martin deserved the noms they got but it got virtually no other nods) - so, it not going to keep the business if it can't say "best musical"! (Which I hope goes to Xanadu with my future husband Cheyenne Jackson!- watch out PereZ!)
The fact is that this show is crap. The leads, who are all successful actors, are probably making a bundle and if they want to continue working, take the cut in pay.
omg! I saw that show it was amazing!! but I saw it with Roger Bart's understudy….Megan Mullaly should be paid so much…she was freaking amazing!
GO SEE THE BROADWAY SHOW………IT'S F**KING AWESOME…..SERIOUSLY
THE STAGE SET WAS THE BEST I'VE EVER SEEN, IT'S HILLARIOUS AND WELL DONE OVERALL
IN FACT I WILL SEE IT AGAIN IN JULY AND WE JUST SEEN IT IN MAY….SUPPORT THE SHOW!!!
Only rich people and spoilt brats go to Broadway and the Met Opera, so who cares Perez. WE ARE IN A DEPRESSION AND WE MUST FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT!
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Shut please up, all you desinformed jealous haters!
Brooks & Sillerman know BEST, clear?! *pff*