The phrase "audience existed" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the presence or existence of an audience in a particular context, such as a performance, event, or study.
Example: "In the early days of theater, the audience existed primarily to witness the storytelling and performances of the actors."
Alternatives: "the audience was present" or "an audience was there".
By the early 1970's, when Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts finally completed its initial, tortuous fund-raising campaign, it was apparent that no mass audience existed for the performing arts.
From 1935 to 1939 the WPA Federal Theatre Project, established and funded by the Works Project Administration of the U.S. government to provide employment for out-of-work actors, presented hundreds of productions of all sorts throughout the country and showed that a large untapped audience existed for live theatre at low prices.
If "The Passion of the Christ" showed that a mass audience existed for overt religious stories on screen, "The Blind Side," a 2009 family sports drama about a young black man taken in by a white family, showed the promise of less obvious storytelling.
Their work kicked a door open for subsequent generations of crime writers to storm through and their popularity among readers gave others the confidence to follow in their footsteps, secure in the knowledge that an audience existed for crime fiction that wasn't pulp.
While video games have existed for several decades, it is only in the last ten years that businesses have evolved around the idea that an audience existed that would want to watch them.
The performer and audience exist together in chronological time.
This is the time of year when theatre remembers the children's audience exists.
The ovation it received on Wednesday night shows that an audience exists for this kind of thing.
But at the same time, the studio knows a sizeable audience exists, judging by the $611m box-office that Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ claimed.
The new Globe is as faithful a replica of the old one as could be constructed...The actors and audience exist in a common light.
TMZ, owned by Time Warner, created the model in 2005, upending the entertainment news business by proving that a huge audience exists for continuous gossip updates.
