But he has given his utmost to tonight's performance - and the audience rise from their seats to show their appreciation.
"The whole audience levitated off their seats, " Weiss says.
As audience members found their seats, the stage production motifs were strong but not overindulgent blue and red blocks of light on the runway to evoke the South Korean flag, alabaster program notes and flecks of traditional folk music.
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The move also reduced the house size by about 300 seats, which boosted audience capacity.
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He said he was pleased to see that the audience had leaned forward in their seats during the film, expecting the impossible.
At one point during her farewell show, Oprah told the audience that was nothing more she could put under their seats, there was only her gratitude as a gift.
The front rows of the audience observe the action at close hand, from plush waiting room seats that surround the stage.
Every time one show ended and another began, the stage managers had us switch seats so we'd look like a whole new audience.
Nothing can disguise the problems facing a new orchestra of foreigners playing to an unsophisticated audience in an 864-seat concert hall (a standard hall seats about 2, 500), at the mercy of a single corporate sponsor (the state oil company, Petronas), and in a tropical climate that makes instruments come unglued.
With middle-class fans priced out of most seats, corporate sponsors were sold the idea of a yuppie audience at the ballpark.
In response, the Met announced Tuesday it will lower prices next season on more than 2, 000 seats in the house and add new subscriber benefits in an effort to entice audience members back.
That the lobby's prime real estate is turned over to a vast open space ramping across two levels with a bar, cafe tables, shop, window seats, couches and armchairs sends an equally clear message that the audience is part of the production of that longest-running hit known as theater-going.
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