Best use of audience participation?

[aces25]

What shows have you seen which has effective use of audience participation?

[broadwaydevil]

Spelling Bee's entire premise is built on audience participation that worked seamlessly and contributed greatly to the show's humor and book.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood's audience participation works very well too.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

SPELLING BEE and HAIR immediately came to mind.

[showchoirguy]

Godspell, for me, did a wonderful job with audience participation!

[WhizzerMarvin TrinaJasonMendel]

One Man, Two Guvnors had the best use of faux audience participation I'd ever seen.

Not strictly audience participation, but because there was no fourth wall in Passing Strange I've never felt more strongly like I was participating in the action onstage.

[Playbilly]

SPELLING BEE, PETER PAN (if you're a kid) and the celebrity interview portion of FAME BECOMES ME worked well.

[Sinfonian4life]

Rocky Horror!

[furry_bean915]

Triassic Parq.
Nothing sounds better than being touched and sat upon by Lindsay Nicole Chambers, Wade McCollum and Alex Wyse. Plus, they actually conversed with you, and tweeted about it afterwards. It was fun to see them have fun.

[furry_bean915]

Triassic Parq.
Nothing sounds better than being touched and sat upon by Lindsay Nicole Chambers, Wade McCollum and Alex Wyse. Plus, they actually conversed with you, and tweeted about it afterwards. It was fun to see them have fun.

[ACL2006]

Rocky Horror. The Phantoms interact with you throughout the preshow & during Time Warp. There's other moments that have various cast members running through the audience.

[broadwaydevil]

Spamalot's was hilarious and it was even funnier when the person clearly had no idea what was going on and wasn't "clued in" that they were in the special seat.

[jnb9872]

Honorable Mention:
The Onion:

[Chrysanthemum62001]

I always loved Cabaret's.

[PalJoey]

I think Peter Pan has to be the classic all-time winner, because it forces the audience to applaud or be complicit in the killing of a fairy.

[Quiche2]

PETER PAN is definitely #1 IMO. It was the first musical I ever saw when I waas 4 years old, and my eyes lit up and I felt so great to help Peter save Tink's life. I think DROOD is great too, because Audience Participation affects the final outcome of the show.

[once a month]

Sleep No More, hands down!

[EponineAmneris]

DRROD by far

[GavestonPS]

PETER PAN is definitely #1 IMO. It was the first musical I ever saw when I waas 4 years old, and my eyes lit up and I felt so great to help Peter save Tink's life....

4-year-olds are different nowadays. I was babysitting a friend's 4-year-old and we were watching the Mary Martin version on video. When it came time to clap for Tinkerbell, the kid looked at me like I was SO uncool: he knew the difference between TV and live theater!

So without his noticing, I hit the remote with my elbow and the screen went black.

"See?", I said, "I warned you. Now you've killed Tinkerbell!"

You've never seen a child clap harder than he did after that.

But I wonder why more friends don't ask me to babysit...

[once a month]

VERY very funny! Thanks for the chuckle GavestonPS!

[Thparkaly]

Spelling Bee takes the crown in my opinion. The audience participation only adds to the hilarity.

[Newsiesgirl67]

Godspell did a great job, I loved how the brought audience member on to the stage it look like alot of fun and of course during intermation invting everyone to drink "wine" on stage it was just so much fun.