What to do with a video camera at a show?
What to do with a video camera at a show?
Spotlightjb
Swing Joined: 7/18/10
#1What to do with a video camera at a show?
Posted: 11/22/10 at 8:40pm
(I would think that this has been asked before, but I ran a search and found nothing. So...here's hoping.)
I will be in the city this week and as an annoying tourist I will likely be bringing my video camera with me. However, I don't have the option of dropping off my camera before going to a show.
If bags aren't checked and I just leave it in my purse, I assume it won't be a problem. But if they do check bags, will they hold it until after the show?
The shows we will be seeing are A Little Night Music, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Women on the Verge, and American Idiot if that makes a difference.
Thank you for any help you can offer me and my silly question.
#2What to do with a video camera at a show?
Posted: 11/22/10 at 8:49pm
Not a silly question at all. You have the option to check your bags but that's annoying. Honestly, just put it at the bottom of your purse and when they glance inside you'll be fine. If they do see it they might just tell you you can't use it. I wouldn't worry about it, though.
Enjoy the shows!
#2What to do with a video camera at a show?
Posted: 11/22/10 at 8:57pm
Film them! Just don't get caught. 
#3What to do with a video camera at a show?
Posted: 11/22/10 at 9:02pmMake a badge that says PBS and then go up on stage and start filming!
"I never had theatre producers run after me. Some people want to make more Broadway shows out of movies. But Elliot and I aren't going to do Batman: The Musical." - Julie Taymor 1999
#4What to do with a video camera at a show?
Posted: 11/22/10 at 9:25pmEmo, I have a new goal in life now.
#5What to do with a video camera at a show?
Posted: 11/22/10 at 10:52pm
Record Women On The Verge just kidding! You should be fine though as long as you are not carrying it visibly inside the theatre! Enjoy the shows!
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
#6What to do with a video camera at a show?
Posted: 11/22/10 at 10:55pmI saw Women on the Verge and Life in the Theatre this past weekend, carrying a large messenger bag and neither theatre asked me to open it for inspection...and yet, at the Regal cinema they did .. go figure.
jdtp12
Featured Actor Joined: 7/16/10
#7What to do with a video camera at a show?
Posted: 11/22/10 at 10:59pmWhen I went to Phantom of the Opera over the summer(also a tourist), we had our digital camera in plain view for the whole waiting time and performance and it was not even a problem. One of us just had it sitting their lap the whole time. I guess as long as it's not on during the show it's not a problem, at least there..
#8What to do with a video camera at a show?
Posted: 11/22/10 at 11:16pmTheaters know they get a lot of their patronage from tourists so they're used to seeing video cameras in bags. As long as you don't have it out when you're in your seat, it shouldn't be a problem. :)
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Fosse76
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/05
#9What to do with a video camera at a show?
Posted: 11/23/10 at 11:02am
"Theaters know they get a lot of their patronage from tourists so they're used to seeing video cameras in bags. As long as you don't have it out when you're in your seat, it shouldn't be a problem."
Nope. It depends solely on whether or not the producers of a show want to pay for security to rifle through bags.
#10What to do with a video camera at a show?
Posted: 11/23/10 at 11:28am
dshnookie
Maybe Regal Cinema was checking for bed bugs!!!!
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DF
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#11What to do with a video camera at a show?
Posted: 11/23/10 at 11:57am
"...and neither theatre asked me to open it for inspection...and yet, at the Regal cinema they did..."
Am guessing there's more demand for bootleg videos of Harry Potter than for flop-ish Broadway shows.
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