The phrase 'a captivated audience' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a group of people who are paying close attention to something that they find interesting or enjoyable. For example: The author had a captivated audience as they told their story.
But, as he explained to a captivated audience, every time he got within sight of the pinnacle, he blew it.
There was a relaxed and positive atmosphere as Van Gaal held court to a captivated audience for 22 minutes.
It was as though he played alone, albeit before a captivated audience that swelled to 50,000".
While the final pages of his legacy remain blank, a captivated audience is eager to see how everything turns out.
Diners are inevitably transfixed, a captivated audience in awe of the gleaming mozzarella machine, the still-swirling batch of pistachio gelato and the flour-coated hands of bakers massaging heaps of dough.
Ever since I was a tween reciting poetry to a captivated audience of schoolmates back in Peru, I knew that I wanted to be heard by thousands - actually millions - of people.
Neither did the captivated audience.
But Mr. Pearce's character — who abdicated the throne to his brother (King George VI, played by Colin Firth, a favorite for Best Actor) in order to marry a double divorcee — captivated audiences during a visit to tenements on the East Side of New York in 1941.
Just this month Netflix's To All the Boys I Loved Before, which features a Korean-American lead, captivated audiences so much that a sequel is already being discussed.
The Yiddish theater boomed, pioneering a style of popular entertainment, with bittersweet stories of love and loss rendered with an expressive sweep that captivated audiences and offered a cherished few hours of escape.
The best games as determined by the iPhone maker are Rayman Jungle Run on the iPhone, from major games studio Ubisoft, and The Room, a puzzle game with a mystery element that captivated audiences this year.
