Cabaret Rulebook 07-11 - Actors

(G) Term (formerly Run-of-the-Play) Contract or Rider. An Actor employed under a Weekly
Contract may be signed to a limited Term Contract or Rider for a period not to exceed six months
provided Actor receives at least $100.00 per week in addition to the contractual salary. (See Rule
17(D), CONTRACT).
(H) Subsequent Term Contract or Rider. If an Actor signed to a three month Term Contract is
subsequently signed to another 3 month Term in the production, the Actor must be paid
retroactively to the time the original three month rider was executed and thereafter at the six
month Term salary.
(I) Checks; When Check is Payment. No check or draft, either of the Producer or a third party,
given to or received by the Actor in payment of any sum due under the Actor's contract of
employment shall operate to minimize or affect the Actor's claim for salary or other compensation
under the Actor's contract. The amount the Actor does receive, however, shall serve as a credit
against the full amount of the claim.
(J) Contingent Compensation. No employment contract shall be entered into by the Producer or
Actor where additional compensation above minimum is contingent upon receipts without the
written consent of Equity, which consent will not be unreasonably withheld. In no case shall
compensation be contingent upon profits.
(K) Actual salary. The actual salary of the Actor agreed upon shall be stated in the contract and a
lesser or fictitious salary shall not be stated in the contract. A new contract will be issued and
signed whenever the Actor's salary is increased.
(L) Additional duties. The Actor shall not be required to do any additional work without mutual
agreement and an additional negotiated compensation therefor which shall not be less than
$20.00 per week. Additional work is defined as playing additional parts, doing additional
understudying or doing additional work not specified in the Actor's contract at the time of its
original signing.
(M)Set Moves.
(1) Definition of Work Permitted Without Additional Compensation:
(a) Actor shall be permitted, without payment of additional compensation, to set props
and small set pieces, and to move furniture and set pieces specifically designed to be
easily utilized by such Actor, provided that such action is within the scope of the Actor’s
character in the play and that such movement would customarily be performed by such a
character during the action depicted in the play. In no event may an actor be required to
pre-set scenery before the show or at intermission, nor shall any actor be required to
strike scenery at intermission or after the show except when such pre-set or strike takes
place in view of the audience (a vista). This shall not preclude an Actor from choosing to
pre-set his/her own props.
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