Audience Participation Shows
Audience Participation Shows
showgo
Swing Joined: 2/23/15
#1Audience Participation Shows
Posted: 2/23/15 at 12:42pm
Hello,
Which current Broadway shows in NYC have any audience participation in it? And also, if you know of some, please describe in detail how the audience participates. This can range from a single random audience member chosen to come on stage or the whole audience being told to do something. Thanks.
ErinDillyFan
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/06
#2Audience Participation Shows
Posted: 2/23/15 at 1:08pm
I haven't seen it. But, pretty sure there is still the sing-a-long in Pippin on "No Time At All"
Updated On: 2/23/15 at 01:08 PM
#2Audience Participation Shows
Posted: 2/23/15 at 1:09pmHedwig and the Angry Inch and Cabaret. In Hedwig, the audience is addressed directly, one audience member gets physical attention from Hedwig, and another person is selected for an important task. In Cabaret, Alan Cumming selects two people from the audience to dance with him on stage at the rise of Act II.
"Mostly, I loved the size of these people's emotions. Nobody has emotions this size anymore. Outsized emotions. Operatic emotions. Kushemski and Vanda are like Tristan and Isolde, they're Paolo and Francesca. Nobody's in total thrall like this anymore. Nobody's overcome by passion like this, or goes through this kind of rage." Thomas, Venus in Fur
Hairspray0901
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/29/08
#4Audience Participation Shows
Posted: 2/23/15 at 2:12pm
On the Town sings happy birthday to someone in the audience at the start of act 2.
ErinDillyFan
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/06
#6Audience Participation Shows
Posted: 2/23/15 at 4:10pm
Oops! Only 6 weeks ago...
Then I shouldn't mention "Here Lies Love" or "The Mystery of Edwin Drood"?
ILuv2shop531
Broadway Star Joined: 7/12/07
#7Audience Participation Shows
Posted: 2/23/15 at 4:14pmIn "The Money Song" in Avenue Q cast members come into the audience with money collection buckets (which some audience members actually put change into) and try to jokingly pull people's purses away from them.
brdway411
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/24/14
#8Audience Participation Shows
Posted: 2/23/15 at 4:17pm
also both closed
try FUERZA BRUTA WAYRA, you dance and play with the actors during the show.
And Then She Fell, a twisted version on Alice in Wonderland. Small groups walk around the venue and eat, drink and explore.
Sleep No More, again walk around the venue and some times you will get pushed through a secret door/passage and you will get to see things others don't.
#9Audience Participation Shows
Posted: 2/23/15 at 4:31pm
"also both closed"
^I think that was the joke
peacelovemagic1
Stand-by Joined: 11/18/12
#10Audience Participation Shows
Posted: 2/24/15 at 1:12amNone of the shows on Broadway right now have a ton of audience interaction the way shows like Spelling Bee or Here Lies Love did. As previously mentioned, in Hedwig some people are called out, however the majority of the audience does not interact with the cast during the show. The closest I can think is indeed Avenue Q, which isn't really a new show at all.
ErinDillyFan
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/06
#12Audience Participation Shows
Posted: 2/24/15 at 12:24pmIt's not part of the actual show but after curtain call at Beautiful they get everybody in the audience up and singing "I Feel the Earth Move."
I like a good rhyme more than a good time
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