It's mostly a little shocked to, 'Whoa, this is interesting,' to 'This is awesome.' " Audience participation is also big: For the Halloween shows, the band will ask fans to dress as a favorite character from one of their songs.
During the awesome cadenza, the audience held its breath and you could have heard the proverbial pin drop.
By now, Cirque sets for the permanently installed show are built on an order of magnitude and technical sophistication that easily transcends the flashiest Broadway musicals, even "The Phantom of the Opera," now playing here, too, or opera, which for 400 years offered more awesome spectacle to audiences than anything else.
This is awesome, because most audiences get really hype at the beginning, start to lose interest halfway through only to rally once the band plays the hit at the end.
Lots of macho guys in audience saying "awesome" while women of all ages covered faces/eyes with hands.
He proved his geek cred by asking the audience: "How awesome did Deathstroke look?" (For the uninitiated, Deathstroke is one of DC's deadliest guns for hire).
In cultures where the ritual elements of theatre have remained intact in South India and Bali, for example the performances of plays and dance dramas have acquired an aura of deep respect and almost awesome power over their audience.
At the keynote, which featured new YouTube boss Susan Wojcicki, the key themes were helping creators making videos more awesome, reach a wider audience, and grow their businesses.
"As we catch on with more salespeople, and marketing people, social media people and bloggers, there's just a ton of opportunity for us to build out the platform so we can deliver more awesome things to that audience".
