This was the first time Finding Neverland performed a dress rehearsal in front of any type of audience.
Given the wording of the question, these programs may or may not be scientific and could be intended for any type of audience.
You'll find that a city like London and New York will have a similar type of audience, whereas a city like, I don't know, Glasgow and Detroit probably have a more similar frame of mind and a similar attitude toward each other.
They turn out a certain type of act, groomed for a certain type of audience, and the music scene is much bigger than that.
The Trades Club also hosts some of the Hebden Bridge Festival events every summer, which brings a different type of audience through the doors.
Paul Gudgin, director of the fringe, last night said he was waiting to see whether the couple had attracted a new type of audience to the fringe, people who previously were only interested in cinema.
Adebayo, who is married to Carroll Thompson, the lover's rock singer, believes that there are now only certain types of black artists who will get backing from labels: "If you come across as too black, too strong, yeah you will get a certain type of audience but labels are trying to sell to every person in the country.
"The Proms is an international festival, it is a national festival but I think it is also a festival for London so let's take it away from South Kensington and take it to other bits of London where I think we will find a different type of audience... certainly in Peckham".
Granted, Helfgott's fame rests largely upon the Oscar winning film Shine, which has succeeded in bringing a new type of audience to classical music.
If you're looking for a certain type of audience, then maybe you need to find where that audience hangs out, bring your content to them, and hopefully if you want bring some of them back to your "home base".
