Alan Light, a music journalist who used to live around the corner from the store, coördinates the acts for the series, and the first show, back in 2003, featured a stirring appearance by Ryan Adams, who set the bar high by playing atop tables and picking audience requests out of a hat.
All Stevens' Australian shows were staged at the Opera House as part of the Vivid festival and, fittingly, little was spared in the lighting: eight great beams dancing across the hall, picking audience members to illuminate, and coalescing around Stevens on centre stage.
Taking that concept to the next stage literally, Drexler applies the technology to a live audience setting, picking audience members to come on stage and choose the parts of the songs, which he then has to sing in real time as it is fed to him.
And when David Dimbleby protested that an independent polling group had picked the audience – which gave itself an enthusiastic clap – Nigel said in his best Mr Grumpy voice: "The real audience is sitting at home".
Now that you've created your audience, you can build your campaign normally and simply select Add tailored audiences and pick the audience you just created when you set your targeting.
He seemed the type of person who, at a magic show, would die to be picked for audience participation.
But having picked up audiences of more than 11 million at times – and prime advertisement sales with it – ITV has signed up Oscar-winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes for a second series.
"Some people seem to pick an audience.
Gail: I admit I had to pick my audience carefully.
Crosstown, uptown or downtown public transportation is only steps away, and taxis know just when to flood down Broadway and Columbus to pick up audience members.
To achieve that ambitious goal — the safe strategy would be to pick one audience or the other — Marvel and ABC started with a direct-to-DVD short film called "Item 47".
