10.10.11 Adam News & Info

Neither my husband or I were making 94K a year at the age of 25, and we both have college degrees. j/s

Adam made close to 94K a year while he was in Wicked. He was a full time employee and an ensemble member/understudy for a mega-musical production. Since its 2003 debut, Wicked has broken box office records around the world, holding weekly-gross-takings records in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, St. Louis, and London. Adam was in the Los Angeles production of Wicked for two years. He was considered a full-time cast member and was part of the actor's equity union, so he had paid vacation and sick leave in addition to insurance benefits.

I'm not sure that people understand what an accomplishment it is to even get hired on a full time basis, much less with a production of this magnitude.
My daughter is a musical theatre kid. Like Adam, she spent most of her childhood and teen years practicing and performing on a stage. Like Adam, she started college pursuing a theatre degree. (bless her heart) We know hundreds of talented kids and adults(some who have degrees and master degrees in MT) who are triple threats. You would be astonished at the talent some of these performers have. They would ALL give anything they had to get a job and opportunity like Adam had! We have several friends who are currently in New York trying to make it by going to several auditions on a weekly basis. These are kids who graduated with degrees from prestigious and well-respected Musical Theatre programs at expensive universities. These college-degreed, extremely talented young adults are living in tiny apartments on bunk beds and have jobs in restaurants or in retail stores.

When my daughter saw Adam audition on AI, and heard them say he was in the cast of Wicked, the first words out of her mouth were, "why the heck is he doing this- he's already made it"! No lie, that was exactly what she said. She can't imagine that anything in the world could be better than making a living being on a Theatre stage.

Adam was one of the VERY FEW who could support himself by performing on the Theatre stage. DD did a report on careers in Theatre a couple of years ago. She found that statistics show that a high school football player has a better chance of becoming an NFL player than a high school theatre kid has a chance of even minimally supporting themselves by performing on a stage. These were sobering statistics, and the reason she entered college pursuing a double major.

No, Adam was not the "star" of an NFL team, but at least he was on the team. In the Theatre world, Adam had made it to the big leagues, so to speak. He was not just some "chorus boi" in some regional production of a so-so production. His role in the touring company of Hair, his major role in Ten Commandments, and his ensemble/understudy role in the biggest musical production of this past decade is nothing to be scoffed at!

I think everybody is pretty well posted out on the subject, but trust me it is simmering.

doesn't that make Monte sound a bit naive though? He's been hip deep in this business for over 15 years, working along side one of the most savvy entertainers ever to work within the cut throat music industry so IMO there is no way that Monte would agree to something without checking the legalities of it thoroughly and making sure that all his Ts were crossed and I's were dotted.

Monte would need to ensure he couldn't be sued by RCA/19R for infringing on their rights to Adam's name, image, voice and so would Welsford. Since it's clear that Monte and this Welsford person still have a close working relationship it seems doubtful that Monte is/was completely in the dark about this.

That said, Adam is a grown man and I am confident that he can and will handle his business and personal relationships according to his own desires and feelings.

Thanks for the welcome back ;D

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