Best use of audience participation?

[aces25]

Best use of audience participation?#1

Posted: 10/22/12 at 8:55pm

What shows have you seen which has effective use of audience participation?

[broadwaydevil]

Best use of audience participation?#2

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]

Best use of audience participation?#2

Posted: 10/22/12 at 9:24pm

SPELLING BEE and HAIR immediately came to mind.

[showchoirguy]

Best use of audience participation?#3

Posted: 10/22/12 at 9:25pm

Godspell, for me, did a wonderful job with audience participation!

[WhizzerMarvin]

Best use of audience participation?#4

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!

[Playbilly]

Best use of audience participation?#5

Posted: 10/22/12 at 9:42pm

SPELLING 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!"

[Sinfonian4life]

Best use of audience participation?#6

Posted: 10/22/12 at 10:22pm

Rocky Horror!

[Unknown User]

Best use of audience participation?#7

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]

Best use of audience participation?#8

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.

[ACL2006]

Best use of audience participation?#9

Posted: 10/22/12 at 11:07pm

Rocky 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.

[broadwaydevil]

Best use of audience participation?#10

Posted: 10/22/12 at 11:08pm

Spamalot'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.

[jnb9872]

Best use of audience participation?#11

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]

Best use of audience participation?#12

Posted: 10/22/12 at 11:19pm

I 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

[PalJoey]

Best use of audience participation?#13

Posted: 10/23/12 at 7:38am

I 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]

Best use of audience participation?#14

Posted: 10/23/12 at 7:47am

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. 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.

[once a month]

Best use of audience participation?#15

Posted: 10/23/12 at 7:58am

Sleep No More, hands down!

[EponineAmneris]

Best use of audience participation?#16

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

[GavestonPS]

Best use of audience participation?#17

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...

[once a month]

Best use of audience participation?#18

Posted: 10/23/12 at 10:39am

VERY very funny! Thanks for the chuckle GavestonPS!

[Thparkaly]

Best use of audience participation?#19

Posted: 10/23/12 at 10:57am

Spelling Bee takes the crown in my opinion. The audience participation only adds to the hilarity.

[Newsiesgirl67]

Best use of audience participation?#20

Posted: 10/25/12 at 9:26pm

Godspell 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 -Natalie (Next to Normal)