The top of fame and fortune [Comprehensive British and American]

"Beautiful, unbelievable, absolutely outstanding. The Phantom of the Opera, co-starring Anthony and Erica, has created one of the most moving musicals on Broadway, with awe-inspiring sound and emotional energy." - " New York Times"

"Erica and Anthony make you believe it all, as they seamlessly weave through incredible high notes and romantic soft croons, with a level of emotional tension that brings tears to your eyes." -USA TODAY

"I think all the critics have to apologize for previous indiscretions. Kristen has no love for the Phantom? No, Erica Parker is going to give you the most romantically complex, dangerously tumultuous, and heart-wrenching movie you've ever seen." Obsessed with addictive admiration.” – Variety

"A heart-stopping genius performance, an unmissable legendary masterpiece, there is no reason for New Yorkers not to walk into the MAJESTIC theater, please let Erica and Anthony's perfect performance caress your soul." - "The New Yorker"

"Erica Parker is showing us how a rookie actor will rise to fame and become a leading Broadway actress." - The Washington Post

Since its premiere in mid-March, "The Phantom of the Opera" has achieved great success at the box office during the peak Broadway season in spring, topping the box office charts of Broadway theaters in one fell swoop.

The popularity of this musical is not just about being sold out. In some unofficial ticketing channels, the bottom-class seats, which were originally sold for only $26, have even been sold for hundreds of dollars in the hands of second-hand vendors. Still hard to get a ticket.

"Erica, I have good news for you," Erica put the mobile phone to her ear, and the theater manager Schubert's extremely cheerful voice came, "During this week's Easter period—— "

Three days have passed since Easter on April [-]th, and whether in Hollywood or Broadway, Easter week can be said to be a strong period for the spring box office.

On the other side of the phone, the good news brought by Otto Schubert fully confirmed this point, "We won the highest single-week box office since "Phantom of the Opera" established itself in New York——160 million US dollars!"

This can be called a huge profit. MAJESTIC Theater has always controlled operating costs extremely precisely. The scene of "Phantom of the Opera" is so grand and magnificent, but the total weekly operating expenses are only about 30 US dollars.

Even in terms of Broadway as a whole, it can be called low cost.

This has enabled MAJESTIC Theater to have a weekly net profit of more than one million US dollars in the past month, which is really a rare profit figure.

But Schubert called Erica at this time, obviously not just to tell her the 'good news', "Erica, about your show contract—"

The gentleman finally revealed his true intentions for the call, "I really hope it's not just a year."

Broadway performance contracts are usually in units of one year, and then renewed every year, but at the same time, there are also many actors who switch to other jobs after only one year of performance.

As for the MAJESTIC theater, Schubert certainly does not want to see that Erica and Anthony, who have brought him a lot of profits, are like the former lead actors of "The Phantom of the Opera" after a short one-year performance It seems that resigning from acting finds another job.

Especially Erica, as a promising Hollywood actor, she is obviously more likely to end the show midway than a full-time theater actor Anthony——

The salaries and influence that Broadway brings to actors are far from those in Hollywood, but compared to making movies, the level of hard work in musicals is almost ten times and a hundred times higher.

For example, in terms of the current salary offered by MAJESTIC Theater to Erica——

A weekly salary of [-] can already be regarded as the same as that of a well-known actor, and her two-hour theatrical performance every night, including "singing and dancing, multi-stage high notes, and crying to exhaustion", excludes the actors in group B. In addition to the afternoon performances on stage, Erica needs to perform six performances a week.

Seriously, Erika has almost never needed to diet or exercise to stay in shape these days.The musical performance every night is enough to exhaust her physical strength, which is much more efficient than the amount of exercise for fitness.

Such a high-intensity performance can bring Erica a salary of more than 20 in three months.

And after that, when she leaves New York to film "Thelma & Louise" in Hollywood, Erica will be paid a million dollars for the same three months.

And during the three-month shooting process of the movie, it may not be as tense and exhausting as a one-night musical performance.

So of course Otto Schubert could not help worrying about this—

Erica just wanted to use her few months of musical theater performances to earn enough reputation to prove her extraordinary acting skills.After that, she will choose to leave the Broadway stage, only her film career will be on her mind.

After all, Broadway has been regarded by Hollywood actors as a springboard to win word of mouth for many years.

Old Hollywood stars are counting on Broadway success, while young film actors are trying to prove their acting skills by appearing in stage plays.And when they achieve their wish, they always run faster than anyone else, and can't wait to jump back to Hollywood to make a lot of money.

But Schubert's concerns seem to have been answered so that he can feel at ease. Erica said to him on the phone, "For stage performances, she is my ten-year vision, and I will not end her easily." .”

"In addition to the performance time in the current contract, from now on, I would like to continue to have the opportunity to perform in musicals during the time other than filming." Erica's words are very appropriate and thoughtful, but she doesn't seem to have done anything Very sure guarantee.

Otto Schubert skipped Erica's agent Michael Ovitz and first talked with her about the contract time alone, naturally hoping that this young girl would be easier to deal with.

Schubert even tried to take the opportunity to deceive Erica.

After all, the Hollywood and New York media recently reported Michael Ovitz's enthusiasm for the Japanese M&A case. He almost completely abandoned CAA, let alone ignore Erica, a new client.

In Otto Schubert's view, although Erica Parker seems to be backed by CAA and Michael Ovitz, as a rookie actor who debuted for only four months, whether it is an agent or a brokerage company , obviously the attention to her will be very limited.

It was a dream to expect them to put her affairs first.

To be honest, before making this call, Schubert was ready to take the opportunity to persuade her to sign a three-to-five-year contract.

But now, this young girl is serious in handling things, still holding the initiative firmly in the palm of her hand——

"As for the performance contract," Erica continued to say to Schubert while holding the phone with a flat expression, "Although my agent, Mr. Ovitz, has been busy recently, why did he appoint an agent? I think he I would love to discuss this matter with you."

Erica's reminder to Schubert seemed a bit malicious.

She is obviously very aware of the advantages and disadvantages of signing a big-name agent. The advantage is of course that if Michael Ovitz is willing, he can bring her any chance like a magic trick.

But at the moment, she seems to realize that there are more shortcomings. Ovitz is busy with his tens of billions of dollars in M&A challenges, and even CAA has been left behind by him, let alone Erica's "little money" performance cause.

So before she grows strong enough that CAA has to regard her as an excellent talent at the top of the pyramid and provide her with meticulous services, Erika must have a clear enough understanding of her career plan.

At least for now, she has to take the initiative and not be played around by those who treat her as an ignorant fool.

And Otto Schubert heard Erica's "good suggestion", of course he knew he had hit a soft nail.

However, although Schubert is a bit of a "deceitful" towards Erika, but with her current talent and career prospects, Schubert is naturally more willing to make friends with her than to make troubles.

So he turned to another good news, "Look, I almost forgot the most important thing, Erica, you and Anthony have been shortlisted for this year's Tony Awards. Not often."

The Tony Award, as the highest award for American stage drama, is known as the four major American art awards together with the Oscar, Emmy Award, and Grammy Award. However, the Tony Award held in June every year has always favored new Broadway plays rather than First performances rarely qualify for nominations.

In particular, "The Phantom of the Opera" is even more special. When it premiered on Broadway two years ago, it won seven Tony Awards in one fell swoop.

When Erica heard the news of the qualifications brought by Schubert, she was inevitably a little surprised, but she was not very happy.

Because her chances of winning are really slim.And at present, she is only qualified to be shortlisted. When the nomination list is announced in early May, maybe her name will be swept off the list.

And Erica's opinion on being shortlisted for the Tony Award was quickly proved——

On May 1990, 5, at 3:44 am EST, the nominees for the [-]th Tony Awards were announced.

The leading role of "The Phantom of the Opera", which is popular at the box office, was on the shortlist half a month ago. The most watched nominees for this year's Tony Awards, Anthony Wallow and Erica Parker, both fell out of the Tony Award Drama The list of best actor and actress in the category.

And one of the members of the Tony Award Committee claimed at the press conference at the nomination announcement ceremony, "As for the reasons for the loss of the pair of young people with beautiful faces——

In fact, the two were disqualified during the shortlisted discussion stage. "The Phantom of the Opera" is a non-premiere work, and Volo and Parker certainly shouldn't occupy the nominations for new works. "