Production
California Musical Theatre (CMT) employees operates under contracts with Actors' Equity Association, the union for professional actors and stage managers in the United States; the theatrical trade union IATSE; the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society; and the American Federation of Musicians. During the summer Music Circus season, crews are augmented with student interns and community volunteers.
Many notable Broadway, performers and designers have worked with CMT throughout the years. Music Circus has been the start for a number of actors, singers, musicians, designers and administrators that have become well known throughout the national theatrical community and mainstream America through the music and television industries. In 2008, after the November California elections, a boycott by gay artists was proposed by the composer of a musical once produced at CMT over a private donation made by the company's then artistic director to an LDS church charity that opposed same sex marriage. The director eventually made an apology, a donation to the Human Rights Campaign and stepped down. CMT has stated: "We have a long history of appreciation for the LGBT community and are truly grateful for their longstanding support."
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