A Broadway fund-raiser to benefit entertainment workers whose livelihoods have been imperiled by the coronavirus will be rescheduled after a labor union retreated from a demand that musicians be paid for the streaming of the previously recorded event.
“We believe all musicians should be fairly compensated for their work all of the time, but we also believe that we must do everything possible to support entertainment workers hurt by the coronavirus pandemic,” Ray Hair, international president of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada, said in a statement Monday. “We fully support the union musicians who have graciously offered to forgo all required payments to allow this charity event to move forward.”
The fund-raiser, which had been scheduled for Monday, will instead be held on Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern time. (It will be streamed at broadwaycares.org, youtube.com/BCEFA and facebook.com/BCEFA, as well as on websites of Playbill, iHeartRadio and ABC-owned television stations.)
The event is to raise money for the theater nonprofit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. It will feature a streamed benefit concert, recorded in November, in which 79 singers and dancers, and 15 musicians, performed songs from Disney musicals, . The actor Ryan McCartan will host from home, weaving in live interviews.
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/theater/union-agrees-to-Broadway-benefit.html
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