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Can we all just admit we don't care and move on?
Sure, put out a "statement" but the complexity of the thing is too big to fathom. (1/9) https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/everyone-just-knows-hes-an-absolute-monster-scott-rudins-ex-staffers-speak-out-on-abusive-behavior
Sure, put out a "statement" but the complexity of the thing is too big to fathom. (1/9) https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/everyone-just-knows-hes-an-absolute-monster-scott-rudins-ex-staffers-speak-out-on-abusive-behavior
You know why most companies now have free-trade coffee, organic oat milk, and cruelty-free makeup?
Not because THEY care, but because WE care, because if we care it sells. (2/9)
Not because THEY care, but because WE care, because if we care it sells. (2/9)
Theater doesn't have certification, in theater we put our values on stage and that's it. Remember #Askifitsequity?
Guess what? Audiences don't care about union relations, if it looks like the show we know and love, and everyone onstage is smiling, what's the harm? (3/9)
Guess what? Audiences don't care about union relations, if it looks like the show we know and love, and everyone onstage is smiling, what's the harm? (3/9)
There is a reason that Broadway was built on the back of minstrels shows (because they were popular) and you don't see them now (because they're not) The commercial theater cares about what sells, Broadway cares about what sells. (4/9)
Do you care that the producer's husband is friends with the last president and is a massive real estate developer responsible for gentrifying NY? Of course not, you just want to be in a theater even if literally no live actors are being employed, but yay theater! (5/9)
And who wants to rain on their friend's parade when they've finally got a job that might give them health insurance orr make their rent payment for the month. I know I don't. (6/9)
Our industry cannot change until the world around it changes, until we have universal healthcare, and universal basic income, until the cost of living in NYC isn't outrageous, until you don't need an endless line of rich investors to capitalize shows, until, until, until. (7/9)
And until then just admit you're not going to boycott Broadway because what's ON STAGE is free trade, organic, and cruelty free. (8/9)
If someone is going to produce To Kill a Mockingbird one day and throw a baked potato at someone's head the next, well then let's just all agree we can see the man behind the curtain and we're choosing to look away. (9/9)
