A 29-year-old stagehand was found unconscious and in cardiac arrest just before 8 p.m. in a bathroom backstage at the popular Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, which stars Daniel Radcliffe and Night Court's John Larroquette. The unidentified man was rushed to St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. An NYPD spokesman tells the Times no criminality was suspected and it is believed he died from a drug overdose. As the grisly situation unfolded backstage (apparently he was found in an "out-of-the-way" room), the audience waited for over an hour with no explanation, until Radcliffe and Larroquette appeared on stage around 9 p.m. to announce that the show would not go on.
Daniel Radcliffe's "How To Succeed" Performance Nixed By Dead Stagehand Backstage
Stagehand$ Salary at Carnegie Hall Hits Half a Million
You may get to Carnegie Hall through practice, but you get to walk away from Carnegie Hall with a half million a year by being a stagehand at the legendary venue.
Bloomberg News blows the lid off the shocking salaries that Carnegie doles out annually, saying that while "a star pianist can receive $20,000 a night... he or she would have to perform at least 27 times to match the income of Dennis O’Connell, who oversees props at the hall."
Mr. Grinch Going to Court
The Broadway stagehands strike may not be a hit with audiences, but it’s settling in for a long run anyway. Day eleven of the strike is dominated by the dashed hopes of children who’d been promised a visit to Whoville. Yesterday James Sanna, a producer of “The Grinch”, announced that because the show had a separate contract with the stagehands’ union, they’d reached an agreement that would let the kid-friendly musical continue its brief...
When The Lights Go Out In the City
It's finally come to this. The lights of the Great White Way have gone dark in a dispute between the theater stagehands of Local One and producers and theater owners. The labor dispute which has been simmering for months and left the stagehands without a contract for an equal time, resulted in a shutdown of Broadway shows on the verge of the theater district's most profitable season. The stalemate came to to a head after...
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