ALW's Cinderella - Gillian Lynne / U.K. Tour (rumour)

If I was being cynical, I bet if ALW and Cameron had got money from the CRF, Phantom would have still been the new production that's playing at Her Majesty's.

Have to agree with Burly Bear here. Being treated badly is working in some dangerous hole on minimum wage on a 12 hour night shift. If the producer - your employer - payer of wages - giver of opportunities - can’t express that he’s not happy with what’s happening in his own show for whatever reason there’s something wrong.
it’s time to suck it up and get on with it or complain to your union rep. Passive aggressive subtweets on Twitter are immature, unprofessional and smack of fragile egos who have never been told some home truths. Try workplace appraisals. You can only learn and grow from feedback. Was Andy harsh but fair or a complete nightmare? Who can say, but the silly teen subtweeting is wearing any sympathy I had with the cast to nil at this point. CHF can afford to play champion of the ‘little people’ but she can also afford to be out of work. Is she going to help them out when the show closes due to bad publicity and they have no job to go to. I think it’s quite telling who HASN’T piped up on the subject (there are 34 in the cast) Makes you wonder if those bleating the most were on the end of his ire?
For those wondering about RUG and control over social media I know actors who have worked for them and social media is very tightly controlled with strict dos and donts so as not to tarnish the show’s reputation. The way certain actors have been behaving arguing with members of the ticket paying public on a wide range of Cinderella topics including calling one punter a ‘brat’ it was high time it got reined in. Actor /audience fighting was spiralling out of control.

As none of us actually know what he said over the phone to the cast (or whether any of them were involved in previous 1-2-1 talks with management in efforts to address aspects of criticism) it’s still a fair point that subtweeting criticism of your boss and calling your boss a liar and a dickhead is still not the way forward in the professional world of work.

I assume at the time she had never heard about what happened to Patti in Sunset...

If it happened to Patti it can happen to anyone!

But your employer also doesn't roast you in the press...

I have no doubt they know that they serve audiences, and serve authors/directors' intentions - it's just that IF they're sometimes a bit sh*t at it, it would be better to be told so in person, rather than have it broadcast impersonally over tannoy speakers to the assembled company or publicly on BBC Radio 4.

That said - I hope that those pictured in that Insta picture endorse the sentiments of the poster and haven't been spoken for; unwise as it is. 

It does now feel that a very large amount of the company are openly in dispute with ALW.  Around 11 have now shown an opinion in some way.  An almost* unprecedented mess of disastrous artist management.

*My disclaimer before someone says - you know nothing, what about 'Chi Chi Was A Burlesque Girl' at the Belasco on Broadway in 1957?  Or 'Capeman'.

On the last day of 'Good Morning With Anne and Nick' Alan Yentob, who'd cancelled the show, sent flowers. Anne Diamond headed hers directly upside down into the bin. Expect a lot of that. Perhaps the cast could establish a link with a local hospital and some good might come from this.

Word on the street is that Andy’s phone call only came after attempts to resolve cast attitude problems via more traditional methods failed.

*this comes from a wholly unreliable source, but the same source that said it would be Beanie and Ramin in Funny Girl two months ahead of the announcement so…

I think a lot of a people in theatre would disagree with it being called a service industry, it's a creative industry just like film and television.

How smug and self satisfied the comment section is by the various thesps. Particularly loathsome the hilarious comment by Carrie’s agent Helen Clarkson ‘Aprons on!’
They really do think they’re all a cut above don’t they?

They would be wrong. The entertainment industry falls within the wider service sector. Like the vast majority of the UK work force. The UK is a service driven economy, something that has grown over the decades as manufacturing has decreased. As has been mentioned the divisions of the service sector is vast and diverse. Its not just those that 'put on aprons'. They don't make a tangible product to sell, they sell their imtangibkle skills and knowledge for profit so are service based. Their reaction and belittling of the service sector shows how entitled and snobbish many of them are, and how they think they are better than the majority of the UK. Older actors I'd understand a bit more having such an old fashioned attitude (reminds me of Nicola Mcaulif in the chitty documentary), but I'm surprised younger members have such out dated attitudes.


ALWs alleged call is out of order and gives them reason to be angry. His comments about them being in the service sector though do not. In fact their alienating their customers even more.