MSUA Rulebook 11-14 - Actors

same cast performs in more than one Stock theatre under consecutiveindividual Stock Jobbing contracts at each theatre, utilizing essentially the samedirection and choreography. Re-blocking to accommodate arena or prosceniumstages shall not be considered as essentially affecting the original direction.A Package Tour may be contracted to perform a non-MSUA engagement(s),however such engagement(s) shall be subject to the terms and conditionsestablished by Equity. [See Rule 18, CROSS-CONTRACTUAL TOUR.](2) Unit Attraction. A Unit Attraction (herein referred to as a Unit Tour) is atouring production utilizing a single employment contract (the Unit contract forStock), consisting entirely of Actors employed under Equity contracts whichplays one Stock theatre during the tour.(a) A Unit Tour may perform in non-stock houses subject to the followingconditions:(i) Performances will be permitted only during the months of April, May,June, July, August, September and October. Any extensions require thepermission of Equity, which permission shall not be unreasonablywithheld.(ii) In a Tour of eight engagements or more, the majority of theengagements will be one week or less.(iii) The Tour shall consist of consecutive engagements, eachengagement being four weeks or less. No engagement may be longerthan four weeks except that the production may be booked into a seriesthat has a regular subscription series of engagements longer than fourweeks.(iv) The production may play Boston, Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles,San Francisco, Toronto or Washington, D.C. for longer than four weeks,but in no case longer than 12 weeks. In such instances, each actorearning less than 300% of the Production Contract minimum willreceive a “bump-up” equal to the difference between the MSUAminimum and Production Contact minimum beginning with the earlier ofthe 5th week or 33rd performance and continuing until the end of theengagement.(v) The production is not permitted in New York City.(b) Producers of Unit Tours will share a portion of their Overages (if any)with qualifying Actors, as defined in (c) below, for the followingengagements:(i) All engagements in Chicago, IL; Los Angeles, CA; San Francisco,CA; Baltimore, MD; Philadelphia, PA; Washington, DC; Boston, MA;Miami, FL; and Costa Mesa, CA;(ii) All engagements commencing in October at non-MSUA signatorytheaters; and/or(iii) All engagements which occur during any approved extension.(c) Actors earning a contractual salary of less than three times theminimum, exclusive of all required increments, will be entitled to participate26