By the time of the first performance, which was well received, Donizetti reported to his publisher the audience's reaction to most of the numbers, specifically that " in the duet for Vial and Salvatore, many shouts of bravi, but at the end ( so they say ) the situation is so moving that they were weeping ".

The first half of the show was an entertaining monologue loosely based on his memoirs, the second half was a question-and-answer session with Crisp picking the audience's written questions at random and answering them in an amusing manner.

" Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire " is the first episode of The Simpsons and the Fox network was nervous about the show because they were unsure if it could sustain the audience's attention for the duration of the episode.

He performed his first show at the age of 14 at the birthday party of a friend and was inspired by his audience's spellbound reaction.

His Emmy Award-winning role of Fiddler in the 1977 groundbreaking television miniseries Roots first brought Gossett to the audience's attention.

Originally, the title of the series was " Smoke Rings ", and the Singing Detective noir thriller was to be dropped after the first episode ; Potter felt it would not hold the audience's attention.

From 2005 through 2006, MBM launched a worldwide tour, their first since 1999, making use of video sampling technology that allowed the band to trigger video clips in real-time, on two large screens positioned stage front, while the band performed either side-stage or behind the screens, out of the audience's view ; instead, live video footage of the band performing was displayed onscreen alongside the pre-assembled clips.

After seeing the film for the first time at a vaudeville theater and being overwhelmed by the audience's reaction, Anderson decided the film industry was for him.

To the audience's surprise, this album was entirely different than the first.

Upon his first visit to Royston Vasey, he collected some wives, performed his show, then moved on when the audience's noses started bleeding simultaneously.

Robert Q. Lewis would always call on Carl Reiner first when the mystery name was a thing: Reiner's innocent questions always took on funny meanings, followed by Joan Alexander straying even farther away, to the studio audience's delight.

Like her friend Henry James, she wrote critically about the relationship between writers and their audience, pioneering the idea of critical assessment among all the arts as relating to an audience's personal response.

** Eye-trace ( 7 %) — Does the cut pay respect to " the location and movement of the audience's focus of interest within the frame " ( Murch, 18 )?

It involves some elements of classical tragedy —" noble " characters and the audience's knowledge of Thomasina's impending death — but the predominant element is comedy, in the way that the characters interact with each other and their witty, epigrammatic dialogue.

To these necessary elements ( her own technical competence and her audience's sentimentality ) Marlene Dietrich adds a third — the mysterious force of her belief in her own magic.

It has been used as an alienating Brechtian technique ( the Verfremdungseffekt ) that makes the audience aware of the unreality of the film experience, in order to focus the audience's attention on the political message of a film rather than the drama or emotion of the narrative — as may be observed in some segments of Sergei Eisenstein's The Battleship Potemkin.

It is characterized both by its extreme transformation of time ( slow enough to show normally imperceptible and unfilmable events, such as flying bullets ) and space ( by way of the ability of the camera angle — the audience's point-of-view — to move around the scene at a normal speed while events are slowed ).

Grimbledon Down's scientists engaged in all sorts of questionable research — such as the production of antipornography, grossly disgusting pornographic films which were intended to turn off the audience's sexual drive and thus save the World's civilisation from catastrophic overpopulation.

Once the concert went on, however, the audience's enthusiasm paved the way for WHFS to include more artists from outside the station's normal playlist on the HFStival's stages — which would, in future years, include more hip hop acts, electronica artists, and such disparate musicians as crooner Tony Bennett and performance artists the Blue Man Group.

He held off writing a review for three weeks because he couldn't believe that the performers were actually taking in the audience's ideas — Kerr was convinced that group members were calling upon accomplices for input and were using pre-arranged material.

Scholars opposing this view claim that while the dagger is unusual, ghosts of murdered victims are more believable, having a basis in the audience's superstitions.

Horror is a film genre seeking to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's primal fears.

For example, it is quite common for works of moral instruction to have an imaginative setting, as a means of getting the audience's attention, but it is difficult to see how Hesiod could have travelled the countryside entertaining people with a narrative about himself if the account was known to be fictitious.

Ralph is sometimes perceived as partially being a literary tool to aid the audience's realisation of inner evil throughout the duration of the novel ; " Ralph wept for the end of innocence ..."

It is possible he was shrewder than he is given credit for, and played to his audience's perception of him, in effect making his recitals an early form of performance art.

One contemporary example of suspension of disbelief is the audience's acceptance that Superman hides his identity from the world by simply donning a pair of glasses, conservative clothing, and acting in a " mild-mannered " fashion.

As in the examples of Superman's powers and Gary Larson's cartoon, it is unclear that suspension of disbelief correctly describes an audience's perception of art.

The sound of a bullet entering a person from a close distance may sound nothing like the sound designed in the above example, but since very few people are aware of how such a thing actually sounds, the job of designing the effect is mainly an issue of creating a conjectural sound which feeds the audience's expectations while still suspending disbelief.

The arrival time of sound energy from all the subwoofers is near-simultaneous from the audience's perspective, but is canceled out to a large degree behind the subwoofers because of offset sound wave arrival times.

* Hoaxes perpetrated by " scare tactics " appealing to the audience's subjectively rational belief that the expected cost of not believing the hoax ( the cost if its assertions are true times the likelihood of their truth ) outweighs the expected cost of believing the hoax ( cost if false times likelihood of falsity ), such as claims that a non-malicious but unfamiliar program on one's computer is malware

Rackin points out that " it is a commonplace of the older criticism that Shakespeare had to rely upon his poetry and his audience's imagination to evoke Cleopatra's greatness because he knew the boy actor could not depict it convincingly ".

It is the audience's function to understand and interpret the story.

It is lively and fast to get the audience's attention.

Its design ensures that the audience's view is not blocked from any seat, and that the audience is fully visible to actors from the stage's centre.

If there is no answer, they open the question up to the whole audience's database of over 30, 000 people!

Set design is often minimal in order not to obscure the audience's view of the performance.

Other times it is lowered to keep the actor from the audience's view.

The concerto is written for a large orchestra with a male voice choir that is hidden from the audience's view in the last movement.

On the night of the premiere of the Darla Dimple film that was being shot, " Lil ' Ark Angel ", after the screening, Danny calls the audience's attention and the animals put on a musical performance for everyone ( while a threatened Darla attempts to thwart the creatures ' attempts at making it to stardom ) that entertains and impresses its viewers (" Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now ").

ome of the audience's outrage may have been due to the contrast between the staging and the many musical virtues that survived in the performance, which was the most complete version of the score ever presented at the Met.

In one episode, Garry invites them to make themselves at home after he leaves the scene ( they end up throwing a raucous party ); in another, a surprise birthday party for Garry's mother goes awry when the audience's shout of " Surprise!

Four episodes have the distinction of being won by the audience: " Death ", the 5th episode in series D ; " England ", the 10th episode in series E ; " Flora & Fauna ", the 10th episode in series F ; and " Greeks ", the 14th episode in series G. The audience's win in " Greeks " was only announced during the XL broadcast as their contribution was cut out of the main broadcast.

A 1967 episode showing three challengers with the audience's and panel's votes.

CBS aired a second, hour-long episode the next night in order to attract and maintain the audience's attention.

In episode 20, there is a reference to the audience's unfavorable reaction to the show: when the Director is told that the trio is coming along well, she replies " that depends on who you talk to.

Following the final episode of series 8 which was aired on 10 May 2009 showing the audience's views and opinions of the show and who Gaz should be with ; the audience chose Donna, with 76. 9 % of the vote.

Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, the authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, praised the episode: " The invention of the Simpsons ' arch enemy as a lugubrious yet psychotic Englishman in dreadlocks succeeds wonderfully in this super-fast, super-funny episode that works by constantly reversing the audience's expectations.

The third act of the episode shifts the focus from the Van Houtens to Homer and Marge because the writers felt that tertiary characters could not carry an audience's interest for an entire episode.