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Actors’ union Equity on the closed shop (1977)
- Genre
- Speech
Speech by A.G. Bracken from the actors’ union Equity, at the 1977 Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool, on the level of unemployment in the entertainment industry. He talks about the minimum wage,...
Peter Plouviez on Equity funding of Chicago (1980)
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- Interview
Peter Plouviez on the Equity Theatre Emergency Fund providing finance for the musical Chicago, enabling the show at the Cambridge Theatre in London’s West End to run for another eleven weeks. Also an...
Jeremy Isaacs on Channel 4 viewing figures (1983)
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- Interview
Chief Executive of Channel 4, Jeremy Isaacs on the television station’s low audience share, and his plans to be responsive to viewer opinion by introducing into the schedule more humour, entertainment and...
Hal Prince and Andrew Lloyd Webber on Sarah Brightman and Equity (1987)
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- Interview
Hal Prince and Andrew Lloyd Webber on Equity’s refusal to allow Sarah Brightman to play on Broadway, in The Phantom of the Opera. They talk about how uniquely qualified she is for the role, how the problem...
Actors’ union lifts Jonathan Pryce ban (1990)
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- News report; Speech
Paul Woodley reports on the lifting of an Equity actors’ union ban on British actor Jonathan Pryce’s playing a Eurasian pimp in the Broadway production of the musical, Miss Saigon. After a six-hour-long...