Cross-posting this here for those who don't read the "cast arrivals" section.
Ben Cook's dad posted this note on his public Facebook page, documenting the tour schedule. http://www.facebook.com/notes/glenn-coo ... 9176237460
Of particular note, it looks like the tour is scheduled to continue well beyond the July 2012 dates in Boston.
The red days appear to be holidays of varying importance, probably marked here because they might be holidays that result in increased pay for working that day, depending on what's written into the contracts.
Yellow days look to just be Daylight Savings Time/Standard Time switch days.
The 'previous tour' link shows Yellow Card information, which is the number of workers required for loading in, performing, and loading out. The 'en tour' numbers are the traveling crew, the in/perf/out numbers are local stagehands hired for the run, usually from the venue's regular pool of help. The 'load/unload' workers are guys who do nothing but stay in the trucks to pack and unpack the trailers.
The 'networks' link is interesting... all the numbers are zeroed out. Either this means a non-union tour (unlikely, since it's appearing on the union website), or it means they haven't set the numbers yet (most likely). Also, all the head crew people have all changed from the previous tour - heads usually stay with a tour for it's duration.
The new tour has a different logo, if anyone's missed that. A 'splits' Billy, instead of a 'jumping' Billy.
I hope they let them out now and then for some sun.
Only during their regularly scheduled breaks... We used to joke about building a person-sized road case, stenciling 'followspot operator' on the side, and loading a crewperson into it just before arriving at a venue.
That's Dean Charles. He has been the new logo Billy...
At least we now have a complete logo Billy, not a frankenbilly like we had with George's head on a different boy's body!
It appears there are changes being made to the billyelliottour.com website. I hope the deletion of future tour dates from website is no indication of the run being cut short.
I hope they let them out now and then for some sun.
