While actors are on strike in Hollywood, the curtain will not fall on the famous Broadway stage, after the signing of an agreement in New York between the different parties of the sector, they announced Thursday in a joint statement. The agreement, signed between the International Alliance of Theatre Employees (IATSE) on the one hand, the Broadway League, which represents theater owners and producers, and Disney Theatrical, a subsidiary of the entertainment group, still has to be ratified by the 1500 members of IATSE concerned by the text. They will decide in the coming days, the statement added.
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The strike was avoided even if the agreement still has to be validated by our members," said Jonas Loeb, spokesman for the union. An agreement reached after the organization had authorized its members the day before to begin to decide on the possibility of a strike as early as Friday, according to the local press. Twenty-nine shows in New York, as well as 17 others currently on tour in North America, would then have been concerned, for an industry that sold 12.3 million tickets during the 2022-2023 season, for a turnover of $ 1.6 billion.
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A threat of strike that would have come in addition to that, effective this one, actors in Hollywood, a first in 63 years. Last week, 160,000 actors of series and cinema stopped work there because of the lack of agreement with the production studios, joining the scriptwriters, themselves on strike for several weeks.