Some studied, some slept in the auditorium, and some watched "Monday Night Football".
There are plenty such people among the thousands packing county courthouses and college auditoriums, including some in the raucous crowd of 500 that confronted Mr. Bishop at Albany State University.
Some areas limit alcohol sales to auditoriums designated for those 21 years and older, while others allow alcohol to be served in general audience auditoriums, with identification checks.
On a recent afternoon, workers headed to Blue Sky's auditorium — some via scooter — for a demonstration of the Brazilian martial art capoeira.
On Wednesday, hundreds of people, most of them wearing red, the color of shirts that Verizon workers are wearing on picket lines, packed the school's auditorium, some holding signs that read, "While Verizon profits, kids and workers lose".
The drama is heightened in "murmurs," a 2009 piece which closed the Miller concert: nine players were distributed throughout the auditorium, some unseen, so that you could never be sure if oboe-ish keening actually came from an oboe.
While Mr. Peres was embraced by all inside the auditorium, some of his right-wing critics took to the streets outside, saying his peace efforts left Israel vulnerable to violence.
Even when he's obviously showboating, there's always a sense that he's showboating to you personally, as opposed to some vast, dim auditorium of blankly interchangeable faces.
The Royal Shakespeare Company has three auditoriums in Stratford and also uses some improvised areas; the company has two auditoriums in London.
In 1964 it opened in a modern new building that contained a school, a library of some 300,000 volumes, a film archive, and public auditoriums.
