After a work stoppage that left more than two dozen shows dark for 19 days, the League of American Theatres and Producers and Local One, the stagehands’ union, have finally reached a settlement. The news came at 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday November 28th, after three straight days of marathon negotiations.

In their contract negotiations, Local One and the League had been haggling over everything from the number of workers required to load in a show to how much a guy wielding a mop should make. What the two parties settled on — a five-year deal, the details of which have not been revealed to the press — is still subject to a vote by Local One members. However, the union’s official website states that ”the Local One negotiating committee is firmly behind the ratification of the contract.” For its part, the League also seems content, as president Charlotte St. Martin called the deal ”a good compromise.”

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Bon Jovi has announced the first round of dates for a mammoth tour that will take the veteran rockers to more than 10 countries around the world over the next half year. “We’re starting in New Jersey and then taking it to the world,” lead singer Jon Bon Jovi told a packed house Thursday night (10/25) in Newark, NJ, according to a press release issued through the tour’s promoters, AEG Live. The show marked the band’s first date of a ten-night engagement inaugurating the city’s brand new Prudential Center.

Including the nine remaining Newark shows, plans are currently in place for more than 40 concerts in the US, Canada and Japan, with additional shows expected in New Zealand, England, Ireland, Scotland, Germany, Holland and Austria, according to promoters.

Bon Jovi is touring behind “Lost Highway,” its ninth album of original material, and first since 2005’s platinum-selling “Have a Nice Day,” which spawned the Grammy-winning duet “Who Says You Can’t Go Home” with Sugarland’s Jennifer Nettles.

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