This video is amazing in it’s power. Solidarity!

From the Fox Rally – Friday, November 9, 2007

Wow, it’s strike city in NYC right now. Not only is the WGA Striking, but now there is a Broadway Stagehands Union Strike wrecking complete and utter musical chaos on Broadway.

More than two-dozen Broadway shows are going dark Saturday, as stagehands went on strike. For the past three months, stagehands have been in contract negotiations with producers; the two sides have been at odds over work rules and staffing requirements. The strike will affect 25 shows, including such tourist favorites as Legally Blonde, Hairspray, Jersey Boys, and The Color Purple. Off Broadway shows are unaffected, and eight shows will go on as normal because those theaters, some of them nonprofits, have separate contracts with stagehands.

Source: E!

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Here are the shows currently shut down because of the Broadway Strike:
A Bronx Tale
A Chorus Line
August: Osage County
Avenue Q
Chicago
The Color Purple
Curtains
Cyrano de Bergerac
Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas
The Drowsy Chaperone
Duran Duran: Red Carpet Massacre
The Farnsworth Invention
Grease
Hairspray
Is He Dead?
Jersey Boys
Legally Blonde
Les Miserables
The Lion King
The Little Mermaid
Mamma Mia!
The Phantom of the Opera
Rent
Rock ‘n’ Roll
Spamalot
Spring Awakening
The Seafarer
Wicked

*This better end before December 15th when I’m going to be in NYC seeing some stuff. I know that Tapeworthy’s feeling the same way.

The CW Source caught up with SUPERNATURAL’s renaissance woman, Producer/Writer Sera Gamble to talk about how the strike effects those Winchester’s and some mini and some not so mini spoilers about upcoming episodes.

CW Source: How is the writers’ strike going to affect you guys?
Sera Gamble: We have a couple of episodes that we were really pounding on to finish, and after that, we’re out of material to shoot. That goes not just for us, it goes for every television show.

CW: I was wondering, especially for someone like you who is both a producer and a writer, can you get around the strike by writing as a producer, or does it not work that way? For that matter, is that something you’d even want to do?
SG: No, you can’t get around it, and I can’t speak for anyone but myself, but I don’t necessarily want to get around it. I care about my TV show, I care about my job, I care about honoring contracts that I personally have signed with my studio and the work I have promised to do for my bosses, but now that we’re in strikeland, I hope that we just strike effectively and we come to a speedy resolution. I know that from the point of view of fans who read your blog, they’re thinking, “How can they do it so they can keep making the show that we love?” I hope that you tell them all that we all want to keep making the show that they love, and in order to do that, we have to get through the strike, and we hope that the studios will cooperate and everyone will come to a resolution.

CW: How many episodes do you have written?
SG: I just did a bunch of rewriting on episode 11, and I believe they are close to or at production draft for episode 12. Episode 13, I don’t think it’s going to be finished by the time we have to walk off the job.

CW: What can you tell me about the episodes that have been written?
SG: [Next week] will be the return of Gordon Walker, their old nemesis who’s been in prison …

Continue reading the interview with Sera Gamble (including spoilers) after the jump…
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