Ms. Michelson, who always manages to transform theaters in magical ways, has used the length of the Kitchen, setting the audience members in low, shallow risers so that they are pressed close to the action, able to see just what these punishing stretches of movement cost the performers, and how the effort exalts them.
Five years later, costs to performers in the Edinburgh Comedy festival have risen, including their subsidy of its spin-off fake Fringe brochure.
Lower down the scale, detailed disclosure would be likely to result in increased costs, as performers and their agents chased higher benchmarks created by newly published information about rivals.
Jim Hayes, who manages the Orlando Sports Stadium, Florida, and was the president of I.P.O. for the last two years, says that promoters need "to bind together to hold the line against the rising costs of performers," and that the organization has "a lot of members who aren't, strictly speaking, promoters".
In 2017, Young Fathers were one of a number of bands who pulled out of Berlin's Pop-Kultur festival after it had emerged that the Israeli embassy had donated €500 (£440) to help to cover the travel costs of performers coming from Israel.
Typically, hit CD's by American performers cost even more than those of Brazilian artists, a fact that might seem to violate the basic principles of Economics 101.
Proud of starting the vogue for publishing executive expenses, he believes revealing details of individual pay deals for talent would push up rather than depress pay but promises "more information" on the total cost of onscreen performers.
He may have made considerable sums of money from his shows but the vast retinue of animals and performers cost an awful lot to maintain.
Though the film provided a balanced look at the lives of LGBTQ youth of color in NYC, I was still left with many questions, mainly about the filmmakers' process, LGBTQ activism, the cost of a performer's "effect".
