The Gospel According To Scott Rudin — Page 3

Is the threshold for being "bullied" that low these days?

Supposedly the issue is that if you squeeze say a Plastic Poland Spring Bottle, that it makes a Crackling sound, like that of Gravel Hitting your Windshield on the Highway, but nobody is informed ahead of time and nothing is done to provide any assistance once they take your water, not even providing a paper cup of water without forking over $$$, which makes me wonder if their true motive is a financial one.

Updated On: 2/15/18 at 12:32 PM

"...I didn’t want to drag my wife down a flight of stairs..."

Why did you purchase mezzanine seats if your poor wife has difficulty with stairs? I think that seems awfully inconsiderate of you.

Perhaps the water looked a bit... suspicious - are you sure that it was absolutely and perfectly clear?

sorry Harve but when you sign up today, revive a long dead thread (for which you obviously searched) and then insist you are entitled to treat a theatre like a baseball game, you are not likely to end up with a sympathetic audience. As others have said, a lot of us like any effort to reduce opportunities for distraction in the theatre, and some of us even remember when the only bottled water came in five gallon containers. As to confiscation, (a) have you ever flown or gone to a concert before? and (b) it was not confiscated; you just can't bring it into someone else's temple. P.S. Does anyone know what Mr. Roxy's first name is?

Have I flown? Yes. They still allow me to bring an empty bottle and refill it prior to boarding.
Have I been to a Concert? Yes, yes I have, but not since David Bowie's Death.
And you're supposedly contending that it wasn't confiscated because I had the option of throwing my tickets away instead is a bit much ..
Plus if we're splitting hairs over definitions, the thread wasn't so much Dead as it was Dormant.

I always thought water was allowed, but yeah, I've smuggled in plenty of drinks to shows. Especially in the winter with bulky jackets, etc.

But I mean, I can see his reasoning.

I certainly would find it distracting if the person next to me was gulping water from a bottle which they then noisily squeezed and squeaked. It's easy to say "Oh, I would drink quietly, and never squeeze the bottle," but who can guarantee that?

However, the too-common attitude among our soft, entitled nation seems to be "Rules are for other people, not me. My needs and desires supersede all rules."

Updated On: 2/15/18 at 01:43 PM

Like if the Shubert Theater had a website (http://shubert.nyc/theatres/shubert/) that said "No outside food or beverage permitted."?

Or if the PDF of the tickets you get has "No outside food or beverages permitted." written toward the bottom?

Those both say it.

There is also an e-mail they send out a few days before the show advising you of their policies on latecomers not being seated, etc., that also mentioned food and beverage, but I can't find any of those.

I didn't purchase the tickets from Telecharge, I don't get an e-mail from anyone, I just go and buy my tickets.
Though you're talking like I'm trying to bring my Emotional Support Giraffe, it's just water.
Water is one of the things required for life... it's not gunpowder, it's not a caged fruit-bat, just water.
but it seems I'm beating my head against a wall, if the theater had no oxygen in it, and I said I couldn't breathe, you'd call me entitled point out how nowhere does it say oxygen would be provided, so never mind.

Oh, and you said in your first post "...the security guard said we could not enter the theater with a water bottle, though it doesn't appear to say so on their website?" But it does say on the Shubert Theatre's website (the link to which is considerately provided for you above by haterobics) - "No outside food or beverages permitted."

So you were informed in advance. And water is provided in the theatre (admittedly, they don't bring it to your seat in a golden chalice borne upon a velvet pillow). So I'm not sure what you're still kickin' about... except maybe that "rules are for other people" thing I mentioned.

Updated On: 2/15/18 at 02:10 PM

There is no law in New York that requires a place of business to provide free water. There is no law in New York that requires business to allow customers to bring into the business their own water. Scott Rudin finds the crinkling of water bottles, and the shaking of cups of ice to be unnecessary noise distractions. He finds people arriving late or otherwise disturbing people already seated to also be unnecessary distractions, so he restricts seating after the start of the performance. While it may be inconvenient, I personally don't find anything remotely wrong with these policies.

And before I forget, the Shubert Theatre has water fountains on every level (box office lobby on the ground floor/orchestra level, and next to the women's restrooms on the mezzanine and balcony levels). So there would be no reason to schlep "down" to anywhere to get water from a water fountain.