Getting And Spending

Helen Hayes Theatre, NYC

directed by John Tillinger

scenery by James Noone

Working together, Noone and Adams came up with a distinctive scenic/lighting element: LED bars, "the same thing that you see in Times Square that shows the stock prices. There are two 24' vertical bars that move left and right and one 36' horizontal bar that flies up and down. When the stock quotes are moving across the bars, during the preset, it's magic. At other times, segments light up, creating lines of light that frame the action. For some larger scenes, they frame the entire stage." Adams also used shifting color washes and templates on a rear-projection screen at the rear of the stage to add variety and movement to the production, directed by John Tillinger.- Lighting Dimensions, 1998