The liturgical form of Lent and the Passion, indeed, embodies the drama of the Resurrection to be shared mutually by actor-priest and audience-congregation.
(Interview, congregation employee).
At St. Paul's, the audience, er, congregation seemed to experience similar qualms.
The audience, or "congregation", sing the hymn together in solemn ritual, posing their voices against the flood until the dove can be sent out.
The opera house is a secular cathedral, the audience a congregation, and the communion celebrated by the actors and audience, presided over by a trinity comprised of Author-Director-Conductor. There is no greater transposable story than that.
("There's nobody like the Lord!") When it opened off Broadway in 1961, with a cast including Marion Williams, it turned the audience into a congregation.
I officiated at the marriage of two men on the front steps of the Merchant hotel before an audience – make that congregation – of several hundred people.
On the other hand, churches are the B-minor Mass's natural habitat, but in concert form with an audience, not a congregation.
He applied the same technique to stand-up, playing his audience like a congregation, and although his material was outrageous, it was his evangelical delivery which set him apart from any comic who'd come before.
The concert hall was like a cathedral, the audience like a congregation, and the communion for me, at least—entirely spiritual.
Going in, Mr. Butts said, he was nervous, because much of the audience was from his congregation.
