Wow,
I think this post is about me.
I was the SM on this 5 member TYA tour. THe producer was upfront with me in the interview (6 weeks before first rehearsal) about the hotel booking plan. I said, well if the actors are ok with it, it shouldn't be that big a deal for me. (Knowing if I wanted to, i could book a single and then be re-imbursed the overage)
Apparently no one told the actors. and 3 weeks after we received the our tour itinary (8 days before we went on the road) One of the actors noticed it. We talked amongst ourselves and and since the first leg of the tour only was for a week on the road and the rest was all day runs out of NYC, we said well lets see how it works.
After the first night one of the actors (the partner to phillydan's actor) decided he didn't like it. But he didn't tell me til the the night before we went back to NYC.
Over the next 3 weeks of touring, when hotels were needed I took a single when I could, or one actor in the company happened to have family in the area which allowed us to 2 and 2 it.
The Company, belatedly, had made a series of offers in which was to help minimize the overage, and limit the financial burden off of me by asking us to rotate in the single, either as a group of 5 or just the three men, or
spliting the cost of the three rooms five or 3 ways.
the math was fuzzy at best, and while I appreciated the intention as not to make me always spend the full 85% of per diem on housing. The actor did not want to have ever pay for a single and be re-imbursed.
So he gave notice, and then the other male actor did too, because he knew who ever replaced the first actor, he would be used to the way this company did business I guess, I never really knew why, since at this point the company had acquiesed and was booking the third room.
I would have taken personally, but when the two new actors came in to replace them, we talked and they asked to split the room 3 ways whenever possible. So we started cancelling the third room.
I got re-imbursed all my hotel expenses when i did book a third room, in a very timely manner.
Mind you, I wouldn't take another extend road tour with this company tho