Being part of an audience

In the performing arts industry, there are a wide range of different acts and performances put together which in turn has various audiences. Being part of audience is key as it is the key component of performance as people observe the craft being exposed and portrayed on stage. 


The difference between a drama and music audience has a big difference, yet they share the same concept, to provide entertainment. However, a music performance can be flexible as the performer may often interact with that particular audience which in result is a quality of the artist’s social skills. On the other hand, drama on its own has different audiences too. For example, musical theatre often can have an interaction with an audience in the form of a pantomime. Although this is one which does have the audience in the form of an actor itself, musical theatre can have performances which involve live music but no interaction with the audience aside from minor comedy, if included. Back to drama acting itself, there is rarely any interaction with this type of performance as it is going on just on the stage, which can be related to Stanislavski's method of the fourth wall. Furthermore this means that the actors are in their own world whereas the audience is its own entity observing the events that occur on the stage.


From personal experience, music audiences can get quite loud as audience members often support those performing. However when it comes to drama performances, audience members tend to get bored easily and are rarely engaged since they could not relate to what was being portrayed on the stage which was Greek Theatre and Our Country's Good. Although actors and performers do experience this all the time, the beauty of the arts still remain and those audiences that can relate and those that enjoy this particular art.