What is the difference between professional and amateur royalties?

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What is the difference between professional and amateur royalties?

“Amateur” refers to a theater company whose participants (particularly actors) work without salary. Rights refers to permission from the playwright (via the representative or publisher) to produce the play. Unlike professional royalties, which demand a percentage of the gross, amateur royalties are finalized up front.

Who has the rights to grease the musical?

The song “Grease” is licensed through Universal Music Corp. It cost us $125 for 5 shows ($25 bucks a pop).

Who has the rights to Chicago the Musical?

Samuel French Inc.
“First we do royalties for scripts and music rental. For ‘Chicago,’ that’s about $1,700 per performance, and we have eight of those,” Whipple explained. GREAT paid a total of $15,124 in royalties to Samuel French Inc. for rights to perform the show.

What are small rights?

“Small Rights” is a term used to cover performances of individual songs in a concert or cabaret-type setting.

How do you get rights to a play?

To obtain the rights to produce a play or musical, complete the following steps:

  1. Play Title.
  2. Producing organization.
  3. Place of performance (City, State & Theatre)
  4. Seating capacity.
  5. Ticket prices.
  6. Nonprofit or for-profit group.
  7. Number of performances.
  8. Performance dates.

What happens in Grease The musical?

A musical about teens in love in the 1950s. It’s California 1958 and greaser Danny Zuko (John Travolta) and Australian Sandy Olsson (Olivia Newton-John) are in love. They spend time at the beach, and when they go back to school, what neither of them knows is that they both now attend Rydell High.

Who published Dear Evan Hansen?

Steven Levenson
Dear Evan Hansen by Steven Levenson | Grand Central Publishing.

What happens if you do a show without rights?

Unlicensed Productions If you use another person’s intellectual property illegally without properly compensating the owner, you are, in essence, robbing the owner of his or her livelihood. Besides being unethical, presenting a show without a performance license is illegal and subject to criminal punishment.