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When you put the musical in front of an audience, you get to see how the audience reacts.

I appreciate an audience that reacts to the music, even if they jump on stage and try to beat us up, I think that's a fantastic reaction. I think that they're really hearing something then.

I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

When playing any song in front of an audience, you're watching them experience it, and it changes. In a lot of ways, it's almost like the music is just the background buzz to what's happening between you and the audience in the room.

At some of the venues, the audience was so loud we could hardly hear what was happening on stage, which kind of threw us back to 1983, when we had very similar reactions on a much bigger scale.

Audiences respond in entirely different ways. One thing is unanimous - music binds us altogether.

When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.