The phrase "ambivalent audience" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an audience that has mixed feelings or contradictory attitudes towards a subject or performance.
Example: "The director noticed the ambivalent audience, with some members cheering while others remained silent and unimpressed."
Alternatives: "conflicted audience" or "divided audience".
As the sun went down, she turned the set into an EDM party, leaving the more ambivalent audience members to stand bemused as she exhorted them to "Declare independence!" In the next field, the Lumineers, whose shout-along folk rock has found such an adoring and high-pitched fanbase, caused virtual gridlock.
Short attention spans rule, and the consequence is every musician's nightmare: an ambivalent audience.
Mr. Maratka is ambivalent about his audience.
Chris acknowledged the audience's ambivalent feelings toward him every time he walked out on Letterman's stage.
Ms. Duncan-Brewster and Ms. Lowdell sidestep the potential preciousness of this device by using it to establish a leery, ambivalent relationship with the audience.
In the aftermath of Israel's inconclusive summer war against the militant organization Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, Mr. Manekin's stories struck an ambivalent note even in this audience at the Yakar Center for Social Concern, founded in 1992 to promote debate and dialogue among Israelis and their neighbors.
Surveys now suggest that audiences have become ambivalent to the presence of pre-film commercials.
With a handful of big nominations, from picture to actor, how much "Wolf" will we see, and how will it play for a TV audience that has had ambivalent feelings about its message?
Nevertheless, audiences have always been ambivalent about what they do and do not want to see on the screen -- even when a sex scene was but a first kiss and a racy cut to the cigarette.
Now I should say that as an audience member, I'm wildly ambivalent about Cirque.
In truth, filmmakers and audiences have always had an ambivalent relationship with psychiatry, and the celluloid shrinks today are pretty much like those of yesteryear, and in real life patients still flock to therapists.
