The average stagehand in many New York City venues makes a six figure salary. See: stagehand salaries. No wonder tickets to plays and concerts there (and elsewhere) are costing many hundreds of dollars these days.
There is something fundementally wrong when unions can muscle their way into such egregious econimic inbalances. And many among us just shrug our shoulders and say that "if they can get it, they deserve it." Poppycock! I think that such golden eggs are in the process of killing the geese that laid them. I know I refuse to pay such outlandish prices to see the mediocre stage productions they are putting on these days. And, by the way, the same goes for most sports programs too ... that also cost hundreds of dollars to sit in the nose-bleed section watching some multi-millionaire athlete prance around like a spoiled teenager.
Eventually, John Q. Public is going to have the scales fall from his eyes ... and these houses of cards will collapse on themselves. Then is when I'll start cheering.
