People taking pictures at Evita??- Page 3

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 6/12/12 at 4:47pm

I don't want to enter the debate too heavily, but rather just comment on enforcement and logic.

Sometimes, the enforcement of the rule DOES get shockingly out of hand and that can be a bigger problem than the initial solution. Ultimately, it is a simple photograph. Not an assault or (if no flash were used) a distraction. However, an usher with a flashlight for a solid minute shining across entire sections of a dark theatre or loudly barking "no pictures" during a performance does far more harm to the performance. It's also just as wrong - and I have seen both - when you see an usher climbing over a row of people to physically snatch a phone or camera from someone's hands or when 4 ushers at one particular house physically block two entire rows of people from leaving the theatre when an usher thinks they saw a flash at curtain call and they scream that no one leaves until the photograph comes forward.

I also have to role my eyes when a certain Broadway scenic designer states in an interview that he has seen pictures productions of a show he provided the original design for and CLEARLY they ripped off his design from looking at illegal pictures taken by patrons... never mind that there are certain settings that will have a similar look no matter who designs them (sans a far-out concept) and this particular designer's very own website and on-line portfolio provide numerous, very detailed photographs of every aspect of his design and his original rendering. Clearly NO ONE working on a production would think to look there.
No pictures during a show? Fine. But please don't feed me foolish lines such as that.

[rjm516]

Posted: 6/12/12 at 4:55pm

Agree that the Evita audience is among the worst out there. And the ushers at that theatre apparently, from my and the OP's experiences, don't do anything, thus contributing to the problem. I have the utmost respect for ushers who actually do what they are supposed to, but it seems like most of those at Evita really don't!

[Idiot]

Posted: 6/12/12 at 5:18pm

"If the policy of the theater prohibits pictures and you snap one anyway, you just broke the law."

Fosse, then there's bound to be a case where someone was charged with copyright infringement for doing exactly this... but I can't find any. If you can, please link them?

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 6/12/12 at 5:23pm

I apologize to all of you for ruining your theater going experience. But as you are all well aware Latinos, especially Puerto Ricans cannot only NOT afford cameras but we don't know how to behave in public either.



Updated On: 6/12/12 at 05:23 PM

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 6/12/12 at 5:25pm

And you bring all those rice and beans with you!

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 6/12/12 at 5:30pm

Let's not forget the chicken Phyll baby....it ain't no thang without a chicken wing!

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 6/12/12 at 5:32pm

¡Ay Papi!

[Rainbowhigh23]

Posted: 6/12/12 at 5:33pm

Aye Dios I'm hungry! Let's bring some mofongo and alcapurria to throw at the fangirls in front row. They ain't Latino!!

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 6/12/12 at 5:38pm

^ I'm down for smacking some snooty white folks upside the head with some mofongo and rice 'n' beans.