Playing with the Unknown
This game is a traditional game that asks the audience to communicate with a song, what action the one who goes out of the room must do. By playing “Hot and Cold” i.e., singing louder or softer as the guesser gets close to or further away from the desired activity. It’s a great closer to any workshop and works for all ages.
Side-Note. Sometimes this game has been called “Dolphin Training” as an applied improv game. It is actually found in Neva Boyd’s Handbook of Recreational Games as Magic Music and pre-dates this label.
As for furthering the side-note and on the traditionality. 😉
The source from 1910, Daniel Bloomfield’s Games and Puzzles for the Musical, features it already as “Magic Music”. But the book (again) consists mostly of the games published even earlier in newspapers (mostly in “The Etiude” magazine), but unfortunately without detailed references.
Cheers!