The Broadway stagehand strike is finally over. The league that represents Broadway’s theater owners and producers along with the the union representing its stagehands announced a settlement ending the 19 day walkout tonight.
Exact details on the reconciliation have not been announced. But earlier in the evening, the executive director of the league, Charlotte St. Martin, staggered out of the negation room and announced: "Performances begin tomorrow night."
Following St. Martin, senior union officials of Local 1 walked out with index fingers hoisted in the air.
“You represented yourselves and your families and your union proud,” James J. Claffey Jr, head of the stagehands' union said to the assembled stagehands.
Looks like The Great White Way is back in business. (Whew! We don't think we could have another holiday weekend without Spring Awakening!)
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