Cabaret Rulebook 07-11 - Actors

(b) 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 coincides with Actor’s entrance
into (or exit from) a scene in which the Actor takes part as an integral and necessary
participant in the staged plot. Such movement need not be attributed customarily to any
character during the action depicted in the play. Resetting of props in a scene by Actors
participating in said scene, shall be permitted.
(2) Definition of Work Permitted With Additional Compensation.
(a) Actor shall be permitted, upon payment of additional compensation to make entrances
and exits for the primary purpose of setting props and small set pieces and for moving
furniture and set pieces specifically designed to be easily utilized by such Actor, provided
that such assignments do not prevent or preclude the Actor from fulfilling Actor’s
customary duties as an Actor.
(b) Actors shall be paid additional compensation, if assigned special blocking (staging),
the primary purpose of which is to set props, small set pieces, move furniture, and set
pieces specifically designed to be easily utilized by such Actor. Such assignments shall
not prevent or preclude the Actor fulfilling Actor’s customary contractual duties as an
Actor. Special blocking (staging) shall be defined as blocking (staging) which requires
Actor to arbitrarily remove himself or his character from the action flowing out of and
related to the plot of the play in order to accomplish the prop or set move, interrupt the
flow of Action on the stage, or any such move accomplished during such interruption of
the action of the play, including but not limited to those accomplished during blackouts,
dim-outs, or such other conventional interruptions during which scene shifts take place.
(3) Definition of Work Not Permitted Except With the Permission of and Under Terms
Satisfactory to Equity.
(a) Set or prop moves which are inherently hazardous due to location on stage, weights
of the set piece or prop, construction, pyrotechnic or electrical effects, proximity to
machinery or simultaneous movement of other scenery or effects shall not be undertaken
by the Actor without the express consent of Equity.
(b) Set or prop moves or other assignments not customarily undertaken by the Actor
which interfere with the normal work of the Actor or for which the Actor may be engaged
to the exclusion of work normally assigned to an Actor shall not be undertaken without
the express consent of Equity under the terms satisfactory to it.
(4) Compensation.
(a) Additional duties as defined hereunder shall be assigned to the Actor by Rider to
Actor’s employment contract. It is agreed that assignments may be withdrawn or
reassigned at the discretion of the Producer and that additional compensation payable
hereunder may likewise be adjusted upon execution of a rider to the Actor’s employment
contract. The Actor shall not be required to do any set or prop moves without mutual
agreement and an additional negotiated compensation therefore, which shall not be less
than $5.00 per move per week.
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