Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...
Equity Members Set to Vote on Dues Raise
Backstage: Actors’ Equity Association, the country’s union for professional actors and stage managers, is hoping to increase its annual membership dues for the first time since 2002. But before the fees are raised, the members whom it would affect must approve the motion.
This proposal is part of a union campaign known as “Equity 2020,” which as the union stated in an email to membership, “was launched...to create a more aggressive, inclusive and responsive union over the next three years.”
IATSE Donates Funds to Assist Members Affected by Hurricane Harvey
Stage Directions: Due to the devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey, the IATSE will donate $10,000 to the Walsh/DiTolla/Spivak Foundation to provide financial assistance to affected IATSE members and their families. Local unions and members of the IATSE are asked to contribute what they can to the Foundation, enabling affected members and their families more flexibility to cope with the challenges created by Harvey.
“Gone With the Wind” dropped from Memphis theater over racial concerns
Salon.com: According to a report published on Deadline, the Orpheum Theatre in Memphis, Tennessee has pulled the classic 1939 film “Gone With the Wind” from its schedule after determining that it was “insensitive to a large segment of its local population.”
Statements from the management of the Orpheum note that there had been a broad and often negative local response to the August 11 screening of the Academy-Award winning tale of the Civil War Era South starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable.
'Born in China' filmmakers wore these silly panda suits to get up close
www.usatoday.com/story/life: DisneyNature filmmakers are known for doing whatever it takes to get stunning footage of wildlife up close — even wearing goofy-looking panda suits required to shoot real pandas for Born in China.
Yes, director Lu Chuan's ground crew really wore panda outfits, complete with panda poop smell, to shoot the hit nature film, released around Earth Day and set for a Blu-ray release Aug. 29.
Oak Brook theater defends same-sex couple, interracial casting in Shakespeare play
www.dailyherald.com: First Folio Theatre executive director David Rice did something this week he hasn't had to do in 35 years as a theater professional: He defended his company's casting and his director's vision.
In an email statement to First Folio supporters and the press, Rice addressed complaints from some theatergoers objecting to the Oak Brook theater's casting of William Shakespeare's "As You Like It." The production features a same-sex couple and three interracial couples.
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