Just a very rough idea?

Will they get a low(ish) wage while they rehearse over the next 10 months and then a lot more when they actually perform?

I think Connie got £1000 per week.... so i would guess it would be less than that. Is the equity minimum like £250 a week?

I would guess £750 a week?

Equity minimum is £400 per week

so if it is say £750 a week for the winning Dorothy and they play the role for a year, before tax that would be roughly

£750*52 = £39,000

If Danielle wins she will get five times as much as anyone else, because it is a FIX!!!!!!! *runs off and cries*

Wasn't Jodie on a massive wage for just a year?

All the girls should get a nice fat fee from the BBC for providing great entertainment for the past weeks.

ALW a multi-millionaire should also give each of the girls a big cheque for giving him and his shows all this publicity.

Could be wrong but I think they get paid while they are on the show. The X Factor contestants got some kind of wage, cos they are "personalities" on a TV show after all. Not sure if the BBC do the same but I would think so.

As for what they get when the girl becomes Dorothy, dunno.

All she'll have to do is invent bust-ups with her boyfriend and stuff for a few months and she'll be landed, so long as she's financially prudent.

Is that all? Suzanne Shaw according to the press (pinch of salt) got 20k a week for Chicago. The Wizard leads were rumoured at somthing enormous. Connie was filling 15-24000 seats a week for 5p each?

Whilst there's a bare minimum rate, it can be negotiated, if you have the 'clout', hence some Leading Men/Women reputedly getting as much as £35,000 per week for their West End runs.

I would imagine that as a 'newcomer', the winning Dorothy would be on the minimum rate. Then, when her contract comes up for renewal, she (or rather her agent) will re-negotiate terms.

I just googled for general info and, as of 2007, the basic wage for a WE performer (not a lead) was approximately £19,000 per year.

Basically, if you want to make shedloads of money, don't expect to do it by working in theatre.

Depends what she does for the Lord apart from singing.

Just looked and equity rates depend on theatre size - but you get the same minimum for 1100 seats as you do for 3000........ALW's not that mean surely?

I seem to remember reading that the IDA winner was due well over £1000 per week, not sure exactly, but I think someone commented it was about 3 times what they would have expected for a part like that unless they were a big international star. I haven't managed to find the reference though. Whether that rate was only for the original contracted 6 months and may have changed at the end of that I don't know. I would imagine that Dorothy would be at least as much, as it is a true "lead" part, and the age range in this competition is very little younger than the Nancy one (only a year or two).

The winners also get the use of an apartment. I remember Lee mentioning his 'penthouse apartment on the South Bank of the Thames' in interviews. It makes sense, because particularly in the first two series (HDYSAPLM & ADWD), there were only a few weeks between winning the final and opening night, so no time for an 'out of town' winner (e.g. Simona, Keith or Craig) to arrange accomodation. Also, some contestants won't be able to afford accomodation (they may still be living at home or in cheap local accomodation).

Is it just me that read this wrongly

I imagine they'd get a decent amount, and free accommodation for the duration of the show.


"According to sources, Ms Fisher will be getting the industry standard of £2,500 per week. Obviously, she will want to negotiate this upwards with her new-found success.

Although she is the biggest box-office name in The Sound of Music, the operatic soprano Lesley Garrett, who plays the abbess, is unlikely to dent the bottom line. Her estimated £3,000-a week salary is small change compared with the huge fees commanded by Hollywood names who tread the boards."

No, the person's trying to be disgusting.

I doubt you've read it incorrectly.....

Thinking about it again, yes it was either £2000 or £3000 for Nancy. As I said earlier, somebody said it was about 3 times what they'd have expected.

I wonder what they get for the series? Any ideas on that?

I think it will probably be near impossible to find out how much the girls got for the series, or the sum disclosed will be inaccurate. But that's purely based on the BBC constantly being accused of wasting money.

It would be nice to get details from one of the Dorothys though about what the Dorothy apartment was like, what they got money for, how much money they got etc.

Sounds sad but that kinda stuff interests me

Is that all.

I thought they would of got about £100,000 .

What was it that Indina Menzel got paid for Wicked a few years ago that everyone got their knickers in a twist about? I just checked on Wikipedia and it was something like $30,000 per week.