Are their other terms anyone uses for those who watch our entertainment besides Spectator or Audience? There must be more terms used other than, "Spec".
Target, Mark or Victim are not appealing.

In my effect descriptions I use VA - Volunteer Assistant, since they are no longer just onlookers.

I also use Witness or Referee if the VA is performing that function rather than holding objects

We like "audience helpers".

Julie & Co.

Thank You two for the input.

I've noticed that magicians haven't come up with a 'shop talk' word for assistance and helpers. There is "talking" for when coins or props make a sound and there are numerous names for sleights and subtleties.

"Minions"

I often refer to them as participants, as this is what I want them to do on many levels: participate. Spectator sounds like a silent observer. However, I use these terms interchangeably amongst fellow magicians.

Thank You, Chollet.

So far then, at this point there doesn't seem to be a slang or shop talk type of term to refer to spectators that at least isn't demeaning.

Upon a search, the synonyms for "spectator" showed-
bystander
fan
moviegoer
observer
onlooker
sports fan
theatergoer
viewer
beholder
clapper
eyewitness
kibitzer
looker
looker-on
perceiver
playgoer
seer
standee
watcher
witness
gaper
gazer
showgoer
stander-by

For "audience"-
congregation
crowd
gallery
gathering
market
public
admirers
assemblage
assembly
devotees
fans
following
hearers
house
listeners
moviegoers
onlookers
patrons
playgoers
spectators
theatergoers
turnout
viewers
witnesses
showgoers

Participants sounds good.

Yes, Participant sounds good but how about a magician's term or non-laymen's term for participants or audience? Example; I have seen the word "turtle" used to refer to a coin shell.

Participant is the phrase I like.

I like to jokingly refer to my volunteers as "my next lifelong fan"
gets a laugh and seems to diffuse anxiety......
Bruce

Participants, as in my magic I want them to feel being on an unique experience not a repeatable movie. Iwabt them to feel that if they were others or if some of the participants werent there, then the outcome (effect) of the cause would be different.

Good one, Bruce. Now we just need a term for it.

In honor of the lovely Alyson Hannigan I now often refer to my audience helper as my Alyson. -Not while performing an effect but as a descriptor when explaining an effect to other performers.

"Helper" and sometimes "spiritualist" if the effect is "done by them".

I think spectator, participant, or audience participant provides more mutual understanding than "my Alyson", which frankly sounds disrespectful.

It could come across as disrespectful if I was to call an actual assistant that but maybe you missed my point. Just like we have the term "talking" for when coins or props make a sound, we don't use that term with layman audiences. The term is used when describing or discussing an effect with other magicians.

I guess I don't understand the reason why "spectator", "participant", etc. aren't good enough terms to use when speaking with other magicians. Having an audience is not exclusive to magic, so I don’t see the significance or motivation for replacing words that already have meaning.

Thank You for that. That's understandable. "Spectator" and "participant" are truly good enough. I just have been looking to be creative with the term. Magician's have customary terms for things such as "talking", "turtle", "stooge". I am not looking to call the participant a made up term such as during a show, it is for describing or teaching an effect to another magician.
I have been using the word/term, "Allyson" since so many know her and to honor her for the excellent role she played on FU.

Example- After you shuffle the deck, have your Allyson select a card.

Basically I am looking to coin a term for a term that doesn't need to be coined but for me I see it as creative fun as trivial as it may be.