But counterpoint among the violins was murky, and musical inspiration ran short during the morbid concluding Rondo, after which a sizable portion of an already thinning audience departed.
As soon as he began reading from his latest novel Blood, I was captivated, along with the rest of an unusually thin audience.
So much so that Yeah Yeah Yeahs, over on the Radio 1/NME stage at the same time as FF, played to a mortifyingly thin audience.
Despite her hit Vagina Monologues, playwright Eve Ensler, 49, got thin audiences for a later play, Necessary Targets.
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Children lead busier lives nowadays, he said, and many dance companies stage the holiday ballet, further thinning his audience.
In Racine, Wisconsin, the thin, sniggering audience defeated him: Wilde cut short his lecture and went off for a fag.
The show resumed performances on Thursday but ultimately fell victim to the thinning tourist audience after the attack.
But the thought of future Oscar evenings turned into similar correctness parades will thin the audience quicker than the steady attrition of recent years.
Participatory theater is often heralded as a way of growing attendance in an age of thinning live audiences and shrinking budgets.
These were self-conscious and thin-skinned audiences; in the Germany of the fifties, theatregoers still belonged to the generation of the Nazi era.
