But a show that had plenty of hand-clapping exuberance and audience sing-along also had its introspective moments.
Along the way, Mr. Levine added an audience sing-along of one song in every show.
Handel's "Messiah" could be performed as long as there was no audience sing-along and the music of other religions was mixed in for balance.
An informal audience sing-along led by members of the Clearwater Chorus will be held at 7 P.M. Call 242-0374 for details.
At age three, he would experience theater for the first time when he was taken to a modern "panto", complete with cross-dressing lead boy and audience sing-alongs.
This developed as reaction to audience sing-along, which at times appeared to annoy him, but he has since come to embrace the audience's love for the song.
It really ended, of course, with the second encore, an audience sing-along of "Auld Lang Syne."
An audience sing-along of favorite carols is also planned.
He also added an audience sing-along, which became such a popular element of the program that when he skipped it once, he received letters of protest.
The heavy red curtain opened, but before the movie started, Mr. Anderson revived a relic of the silent movie age: the audience sing-along.
