Thursday, April 05, 2007

Time Out New York / 20 dirty secrets:

When Sherie Rene Scott took a hiatus last year from Broadway’s Dirty Rotten Scoundrels to star in Signature Theatre Company’s acclaimed revival of Landscape of the Body, her new salary—Equity Off Broadway scale, or roughly $400 a week after taxes—represented less than 5 percent of what she had been earning in DRS. “My baby-sitter made more money than me,” Scott recalls with a rueful laugh. Life onstage may seem glamorous, but actors can often earn more money on unemployment.

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