The phrase "ask audience" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to prompt someone to engage with or solicit feedback from an audience during a presentation or discussion.
Example: "At the end of my presentation, I will ask the audience if they have any questions or comments."
Alternatives: "inquire of the audience" or "solicit input from the audience".
They randomly ask audience members to draw a dream from the box and read it aloud; everyone's job is then to find that dream in the planetarium.
A coming production of his opera "Così Fan Tutte" will ask audience members to vote at intermission for which characters should be married in the final scene.
Marclay's other desk had been pushed against a dormant fireplace whose hearth displayed a facsimile of "Film Script 3," by Yoko Ono: "Ask audience to cut the part of the image on the screen that they don't like.
Presenter Will Best will then ask audience members, which will be consist of 24 teenage boys and girls, questions on whether the woman consented to sex and whether the encounter was rape.
Over time, this evolved into a call-and-response pantomime routine: Sanders would ask audience members to shout out how much college debt they had, and the well-trained crowd would respond with ever more terrifying numbers.
Other challenges to the autonomy of the artist come from new interactive media and from constant polls on television and the Web, which ask audience members for feedback on television shows, movies and music; and from fan bulletin boards, which often function like giant focus groups.
He wasn't sure he could ask audiences to watch a performance without a story.
When I ask audiences whether anyone considers sending e-mail or texts during meetings uncivil, almost everyone raises their hand.
They ask audiences if they are using it; so far, just a few hands go up.
"Who does John Boehner think he's fooling?" he'd often ask audiences.
But when I ask audiences whether they think there's a bubble in Internet stocks, 70% say yes.
