Category: Newsletter

Wicked has become the first show on Broadway to gross over $5 million in one week. For the last week of 2024, the show earned $5,037,392. Lion King took second place that week with $4.2 million in receipts. Wallethub has ranked Florida as the second-least affordable state in the U.S. That is an improvement from READ MORE

New, Reinstated, and Resigned members for January 2025: New Members: none Reinstated Members: none Resigned Members: Deceased Members: none

2025 Annual Dues Now Payable: Please send your checks before the end of January to avoid late fees or suspension of membership. You may also make semiannual payments by paying half in January and half in July. Please contact the office if you have questions or need more time to pay, and please send checks READ MORE

Last month negotiations continued with Broadway Across America. We continue to exchange proposals but it often takes a long time for management to be available for another meeting so negotiations will continue into January, but we are hopeful that an agreement will be reached soon. We expect pay increases will be retroactive to the beginning READ MORE

Music Performance Trust Fund

A thousand workers at a car battery plant in Kentucky have signed cards requesting to be represented by the United Auto Workers. The battery park is a joint venture between Ford and South Korea’s SK On, and workers have complained about exposure to chemicals, exposed wiring, and other hazards while they have been working at READ MORE