What is "audiences"

Usage examples of "audiences".

All Bill wanted to do was perform the censored set verbatim for as many live audiences as possible.

If you have done the marketing research discussed earlier in this chapter, you know the magazines you are aiming for, their audiences and their editors, as well as an agent would.

Just emerging from underground cult status when he died at age thirty-two, Bill Hicks spent most of his life making audiences roar -- and censors cringe -- with biting social satire about everything from former president George Bush to rock stars who hawk diet Coke.

Kinison, who was still working as a doorman, and before Pryor came on they watched twenty-one-year-old Jim Carrey blow audiences away, set after set.

He found Manhattan audiences a little cold, though New York comedians he knew from the road such as Dave Attell, Jon Stewart, and Ray Romano often stuck around after their own sets to watch him.

West End date, and Hyman saved Bill for the last week of the production, betting that audiences would build over the six weeks.

For the first four nights nothing out of the ordinary took place: the two specialty tents played to capacity audiences, the games made money, the rides edged above their break-even point, and Julius Squeezer was back to baiting the weaklings in the crowd.

The result of this system is, that lecture-courses upon specialties of an unusual nature are often delivered to very slim audiences, while those upon more practical and every-day matters of education are delivered to very large ones.

It is not usual in Europe to allow ladies and gentlemen to take bonnets, hats, overcoats, canes, or umbrellas into the auditorium, but in Mannheim this rule was not enforced because the audiences were largely made up of people from a distance, and among these were always a few timid ladies who were afraid that if they had to go into an anteroom to get their things when the play was over, they would miss their train.

But first she was obliged to give two painful audiences, the one to her aunt, and the other to her father.