How Theatre Unions Changed Broadway Forever
…lay when one considers the expense of attending a Broadway show, including high real estate costs, the use of expensive technology and special effects, and the public’s love of spectacle, which requires large numbers of actors and technicians, as well as big production budgets. However, it would be wrong to say that unions have not had an economic effect on the theatre. They had to due to the fact that unionization meant that producers had to star…