What shows have audience participation?
What shows have audience participation?
ErinDillyFan
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/06
#1What shows have audience participation?
Posted: 11/5/06 at 12:34am
Peter Pan has the whole audience to save tinker bell.
Spamalot has one audience member on stage.
I think I have seen at least on other that is not coming to mind.
Anything others?
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#1re: What shows have audience participation?
Posted: 11/5/06 at 12:36amSpelling Bee!
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#2re: What shows have audience participation?
Posted: 11/5/06 at 12:37amIn Mamma Mia the audience dances. Does that count?
#3re: What shows have audience participation?
Posted: 11/5/06 at 12:41am
I made my Broadway debut in Spelling Bee!
MOOing in RENT...
#4re: What shows have audience participation?
Posted: 11/5/06 at 12:42am
I suppose Rent counts. 
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ErinDillyFan
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/06
#5re: What shows have audience participation?
Posted: 11/5/06 at 12:45am
Of course, Spelling Bee.
Dull audience I guess, they didn't moo in rent that I remember.
BDrischBDemented
Broadway Star Joined: 11/13/05
#6re: What shows have audience participation?
Posted: 11/5/06 at 12:51amRocky Horror does/did, but it's more of an effect of the movie than a legit idea they had when the musical premiered in the early 70's.
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jasobres
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/9/05
#7re: What shows have audience participation?
Posted: 11/5/06 at 12:54amThere's brief audience participation at the beginning of Drowsy Chaperone.
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SweMozArt
Leading Actor Joined: 7/31/06
#8re: What shows have audience participation?
Posted: 11/5/06 at 12:56am
No show that allows the throwing of tomatoes? I think that would have ensured many jukebox musicals a long run.
A cool thing would be if the audience could decide how a show ended by pushing mentometer buttons.
#9re: What shows have audience participation?
Posted: 11/5/06 at 1:03am
The Mystery of Edwin Drood - the audience decides whodunit
Peter Pan - the audience claps for Tinkerbell to keep her from dying
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SweMozArt
Leading Actor Joined: 7/31/06
#10re: What shows have audience participation?
Posted: 11/5/06 at 1:06amHas tinkerbell ever died? Is it enough if one audience member claps or should it be a majority?
broadwayaddict2
Swing Joined: 10/23/06
#12re: What shows have audience participation?
Posted: 11/5/06 at 1:54amHow about The Altar Boyz, where the audience is essentially a part of the show, and a lady is chosen by Matthew to appear on stage in the song "Something about you". Cats has audience members dancing with the Cats.
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#13re: What shows have audience participation?
Posted: 11/5/06 at 2:51am
Bush Wars has quite a bit of audience interaction/performance.
The Boy From Oz obviously...back in the day...
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thevolleyballer
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#14re: What shows have audience participation?
Posted: 11/5/06 at 3:08am
"what is the audience participation in the beginning of Chaperone? Does it count that Bob talks to the audience?"
There are a couple times, like when the audience might respond to "How are we this evening?", "My favorite show, The Drowsy Chaperone... oh, I see you've heard of it" or "Would you indulge me? Would you let me play the record for you?"
gustof777
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/8/04
#15re: What shows have audience participation?
Posted: 11/5/06 at 3:11am
Pippin the audience sings in Bertha's number
Avenue Q maybe with the money
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TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#16re: What shows have audience participation?
Posted: 11/5/06 at 3:40am
Pageant.
The audience picks the winner of the 'title'.
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#17re: What shows have audience participation?
Posted: 11/5/06 at 6:37amSpamalot: besides from the audience member participation there's the "follow the bouncing ball" sing along to Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.
#18re: What shows have audience participation?
Posted: 11/5/06 at 7:37am
The conductor has everyone clap to the beat during the Act II intro of Hairspray, if that counts...
The recent Threepenny Opera had the entire audience sing along to a section of The Army Song.
Dame Edna shows rely heavily on audience participation.
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#19re: What shows have audience participation?
Posted: 11/5/06 at 8:35amRocky Horror on Broadway immediately comes to mind. It was an absolute gas hearing some of the things that audience members shouted at the actors. The actors always came back with the best responses, too. Ah, I miss that show.
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#20re: What shows have audience participation?
Posted: 11/5/06 at 8:48amThe Drowsy Chaperone's thing is more like breaking the fourth wall and asking for audience response.
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FeelingElectric
Broadway Star Joined: 9/28/05
#21re: What shows have audience participation?
Posted: 11/5/06 at 9:12am
I have an incredible and very racy audience participation story.
I saw a show at this year's NYMF called Virgins:A Musical Threesome. The second act of this three act musical is called Girl on the Screen. It has to do with a reporter writing an article on various porn sites and their hosts. She logs onto her "Laptop" to research the article. Her Laptop is the lap of an audince menber, which she sits on as the other girls in the cast do their routines from the various sites. On the night I saw the show, that lap was mine. I was scared, embaressed, and excited all at the same time. I was just hoping this beautiful woman would not fall off of my lap during the secne. Everything worked out, and it is an experience I will never forget.
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#22re: What shows have audience participation?
Posted: 11/5/06 at 11:08amWhen I saw Chicago the first time, the actors did not break down the fourth wall. When I saw it the second time, I was surprised that the actors did break down the fourth wall and started talking directly to the audience to get their responses.
Joelbeans
Stand-by Joined: 5/9/05
#23re: What shows have audience participation?
Posted: 11/5/06 at 11:27am
The first one that comes to mind for me is Drood, but that has already been mentioned.
In Will Rogers Follies Will talks to the audience throughout the whole show.
I've seen Godspell with part of the audience on stage and they interact with the cast throughout the show.
americanboy99
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
#24re: What shows have audience participation?
Posted: 11/5/06 at 11:45am
Well, a bunch of people threw tomatoes at Laura Benanti and other cast members at the end of WEDDING SINGER. That counts, right?
#25re: What shows have audience participation?
Posted: 11/5/06 at 11:45am
I've never been, can anyone who has been to Awesome 80s Prom tell me if there's audience participation- it seems like it'd be a show that encourages singing/dancing along maybe?
Updated On: 11/5/06 at 11:45 AM
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