Bo staged this, his first play at OWU, in the 3/4 round Quons-Hut where I was the TD so I had access to lots of platforms, etc. The Drawings, if they ever existed, have long since disappeared, but I remember a small US platform with poles at the downstage edges, and an assortment of benches and stools and a ladder. The Fantasticks sign consisted of cut out letters on a rope in lieu of a curtain as in the round, but we had real entrances onto the platform from offstage, so the curtain was not really necessary. My primary innovation was the use of a draped scrim above the small platform. It gave me all sorts of excuses to play with fancy and bold lighting tricks. I cross lit the thing with reds and blues and the whole effect was rather like cotton candy clouds and quite magical.

Under the influence of Ray Sovey and Bob Stegmiller, I used an inordinate amount of steel blue and flesh pinks. It's a romantic comedy based on Rostand for heaven's sake--stark realism would have been totally out of place. . Here Matt and Luisa are literally mooning about their love bathed in several shades of intense blue. I wish 40year old color prints were accurate.

That scrim also gave us a wonderful excuse to play the "mask" sequence in silhouette behind the lowered scrim. Matt alone could be clearly discerned--when he found his light.