Best use of audience participation?
Best use of audience participation?
aces25
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/13/04
#1Best use of audience participation?
Posted: 10/22/12 at 8:55pmWhat shows have you seen which has effective use of audience participation?
#2Best use of audience participation?
Posted: 10/22/12 at 9:17pm
Spelling Bee's entire premise is built on audience participation that worked seamlessly and contributed greatly to the show's humor and book.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood's audience participation works very well too.
Scratch and claw for every day you're worth!
Make them drag you screaming from life, keep dreaming
You'll live forever here on earth.
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#2Best use of audience participation?
Posted: 10/22/12 at 9:24pmSPELLING BEE and HAIR immediately came to mind.
showchoirguy
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/10
#3Best use of audience participation?
Posted: 10/22/12 at 9:25pmGodspell, for me, did a wonderful job with audience participation!
#4Best use of audience participation?
Posted: 10/22/12 at 9:29pm
One Man, Two Guvnors had the best use of faux audience participation I'd ever seen.
Not strictly audience participation, but because there was no fourth wall in Passing Strange I've never felt more strongly like I was participating in the action onstage.
Marie: Don't be in such a hurry about that pretty little chippy in Frisco.
Tony: Eh, she's a no chip!
#5Best use of audience participation?
Posted: 10/22/12 at 9:42pmSPELLING BEE, PETER PAN (if you're a kid) and the celebrity interview portion of FAME BECOMES ME worked well.
"Through The Sacrifice You Made, We Can't Believe The Price You Paid..For Love!"
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#7Best use of audience participation?
Posted: 10/22/12 at 10:44pm
Triassic Parq.
Nothing sounds better than being touched and sat upon by Lindsay Nicole Chambers, Wade McCollum and Alex Wyse. Plus, they actually conversed with you, and tweeted about it afterwards. It was fun to see them have fun.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#8Best use of audience participation?
Posted: 10/22/12 at 10:44pm
Triassic Parq.
Nothing sounds better than being touched and sat upon by Lindsay Nicole Chambers, Wade McCollum and Alex Wyse. Plus, they actually conversed with you, and tweeted about it afterwards. It was fun to see them have fun.
#9Best use of audience participation?
Posted: 10/22/12 at 11:07pmRocky Horror. The Phantoms interact with you throughout the preshow & during Time Warp. There's other moments that have various cast members running through the audience.
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
#10Best use of audience participation?
Posted: 10/22/12 at 11:08pmSpamalot's was hilarious and it was even funnier when the person clearly had no idea what was going on and wasn't "clued in" that they were in the special seat.
Scratch and claw for every day you're worth!
Make them drag you screaming from life, keep dreaming
You'll live forever here on earth.
#11Best use of audience participation?
Posted: 10/22/12 at 11:16pm
Honorable Mention:
The Onion:
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#12Best use of audience participation?
Posted: 10/22/12 at 11:19pmI always loved Cabaret's.
"What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over." The Masked Bandit in THE FALL
#13Best use of audience participation?
Posted: 10/23/12 at 7:38amI think Peter Pan has to be the classic all-time winner, because it forces the audience to applaud or be complicit in the killing of a fairy.
Quiche2
Broadway Star Joined: 7/20/12
#14Best use of audience participation?
Posted: 10/23/12 at 7:47amPETER PAN is definitely #1 IMO. It was the first musical I ever saw when I waas 4 years old, and my eyes lit up and I felt so great to help Peter save Tink's life. I think DROOD is great too, because Audience Participation affects the final outcome of the show.
Theatre is my life. No one can take that away from me.
#16Best use of audience participation?
Posted: 10/23/12 at 8:01am
DRROD by far 
"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES---
"THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS
#17Best use of audience participation?
Posted: 10/23/12 at 9:53am
PETER PAN is definitely #1 IMO. It was the first musical I ever saw when I waas 4 years old, and my eyes lit up and I felt so great to help Peter save Tink's life....
4-year-olds are different nowadays. I was babysitting a friend's 4-year-old and we were watching the Mary Martin version on video. When it came time to clap for Tinkerbell, the kid looked at me like I was SO uncool: he knew the difference between TV and live theater!
So without his noticing, I hit the remote with my elbow and the screen went black.
"See?", I said, "I warned you. Now you've killed Tinkerbell!"
You've never seen a child clap harder than he did after that.
But I wonder why more friends don't ask me to babysit...
#18Best use of audience participation?
Posted: 10/23/12 at 10:39amVERY very funny! Thanks for the chuckle GavestonPS!
Thparkaly
Stand-by Joined: 9/11/12
#19Best use of audience participation?
Posted: 10/23/12 at 10:57amSpelling Bee takes the crown in my opinion. The audience participation only adds to the hilarity.
#20Best use of audience participation?
Posted: 10/25/12 at 9:26pmGodspell did a great job, I loved how the brought audience member on to the stage it look like alot of fun and of course during intermation invting everyone to drink "wine" on stage it was just so much fun.
Picture a handsome heroicly charismatic
Plain spoken know-nothing
Skirt chasing cocky little son of a-
Lie down with dogs and you wake up with
A raise and a promotion.
So he's a flirt, a complete ego maniac
The fact is he's also the face of the strike
What a face
Face the fact that's a face that could save us all from
sinking in the ocean.
-Katherine (Newsies)
Superboy and the Invisible Girl
Everything a kid oughtta be
He's immortal, forever alive
Then there's me
I wish I could fly
And magically appear and disappear
I wish I could fly
I'd fly far away from here
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