Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), the union that represents over 51,000 professional performers and stage managers, has revealed plans to honor Equity chorus members throughout 2025. The celebration will be dubbed “A Chorus Year.”
It will kick off with the 10th annual Swing Day, being celebrated on Jan. 15. Swing Day honors Broadway’s offstage covers known as swings, who understudy chorus roles (as opposed to principals). Many swings are prepared to cover multiple ensemble members’ tracks.
Aug. 12 will mark the 70th anniversary of Chorus Equity merging with AEA. Chorus Equity was established by the chorines of Florenz Ziegfeld’s “Follies” series during the 1919 AEA strike; the two unions merged in 1955.
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