There is an advantage to performing with tracks; the music will always be the same, at the same tempo, and notes will be exactly where they should be. This made programming Matilda, the Musical simpler (I would have had more cues had we had to manually fire the cue to words; instead, I was able to create multiple chases that would fire at a certain word or beat and then was timed with the music to pulse and dance with the actors). Some numbers that used this extensively was “Bruce”, “Naughty”, “Loud”, and “Revolting Children”.

Guys and Dolls features several different locations and different times of day. This scene pictured takes place in early morning, so the stage was bathed with soft pinks and yellows. The iconic sewer scene (where the song, “Luck Be a Lady” is sung), was created using a projection light to simulate water dancing on the wall, as well as lights shining through a manhole.

Barefoot in the Park was a single, interior set, so we used LEDs on the sky to help set the time of day. As the play progressed, the sky would reflect the mood of the characters - becoming dark and purple for when Paul and Corie were fighting and then moving to bright pink and red when they realized that they could indeed walk barefoot in the park.