One bit of audience participation works fine; but when it's followed by another bit of audience participation, it feels forced given the short length of the show.
HONG KONG — Early morning briefings on sovereign credit outlooks can be soporific affairs, so Fitch Ratings conjured up a bit of audience participation on Tuesday to keep everybody awake: About 100 participants at the event were given nifty little remote-controlled voting devices and asked for their views on a range of topics.
"It's become a bit of audience participation.
I think a good bit of audience participation always goes down well at a festival".
Mr. Kersels's stunt, apart from a gratuitous bit of audience participation, made for a fine opening act.
A kind of immersive Singalongversion of the musical, the concept is part Greek taverna and part stage show, with a bit of audience participation.
One more bit of audience participation came on "Longview," a disaffected stomp-shuffle, when one woman accepted the invitation to sing a verse.
There is no fixed-seat theater, and a bit of audience participation is involved; as the play moves around the park scene by scene, the audience will follow the actors to each new locale.
Fans of "Shells," which had a bit of audience participation, may be surprised at just how much more of that there is in the new show, and at the contrast between the inward-looking Shells and the brazen Dr. Schiller.
Tom Service provided a worthwhile introduction to the Jupiter, with a little bit of audience participation thrown in, while also previewing the other pieces in the programme: a spry and lucid account of Strauss's superabundantly lyrical Oboe Concerto with soloist François Leleux, and Wolfgang Rihm's energetically inventive Hunted Form in its revised version of 2002.
