"But we're still too much of a hostage [to overnight audiences] and that as a sector can make us risk-averse.
To share that with the audience, but without taking the audience hostage.
That night, Chechen terrorists took the theater audience hostage.
His play ultimately tailed off, Tebow came in and played well, and Tebowmania took many in the N.F.L. audience hostage.
Theater, after all, can hold the audience hostage for hours; Beckett makes that playgoing experience a part of his plays.
It was a decision that took the audience hostage: if you said that Ferris had been miscast, you were a politically incorrect villain.
What holds the audience hostage is the rubbernecking impulse: curiosity about how these characters will fare in the aftermath of the blow.
Life is in suspended animation.Aid workers have been bracing for a new influx, fearing a wave of repression after Chechen rebels took a Moscow theatre and its audience hostage last month.
But it has become one of the methods of choice since last autumn, when a band of rebels took a Moscow theatre and its audience hostage and threatened to blow up everyone, themselves included.
On Nov. 19, three weeks after Chechen terrorists took a Moscow theater audience hostage, the local health inspector recommended that the camp be closed, citing worn-out tents, fire hazards and a sharp increase in illness.
It is also a chilly reminder of the tension between the Chechens and Russia's armed forces that has soared since Chechen gunmen took an entire Moscow theater audience hostage last month.
