Tell Me On A Sunday
freeFall Theatre freeFall Studio Theatre St. Petersburg, FL
Lighting design for the 2025 production of Tell Me On A Sunday at freeFall Theatre, directed by Eric Davis.
About the Lighting Design
The design used brightness and shadow to track the main character’s emotional journey. In the early show, light favored her face. As she moved into loneliness, shadow took over.
The mechanism was geometric. Her distance from the light source set the length of her shadow on the floor. Close in, a tight shadow at her feet. Farther out, the shadow stretched across the floor toward the audience, sometimes well past the length of her body. She walked in and out of those shadows as the songs demanded.
The freeFall studio’s intimate footprint did the rest. The audience sat close enough to see the floor as part of the picture, so the shadow cast onto it read as cleanly as the actor casting it. In a song cycle about loneliness, the shadow was the other half of every scene.
- Music
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Lyrics
- Don Black
- Director
- Eric Davis
- Choreographer
- Leann Alduenda
- Dance Captain
- David Tanciar
- Music Director
- Michael Raabe
- Scenic Designer
- Tom Hansen
- Costume Designer
- Eric Davis
- Lighting Designer
- Mike Wood
- Sound Engineer
- Nathan Doyle
- Video Designer
- Eric Davis
- Properties Designer
- Eric Davis
- Master Carpenter
- James Putnam
- Carpentry Assistant
- Stephen Lima
- Scenic Painter
- Julia Rifino
- Assistant Scenic Painters
- James PutnamJonathan Harrison
- Master Electrician
- Trenten Szabo
- Electrician
- Reuben Hirsh
- Production Stage Manager
- Daniel LeMien
- Scenic Volunteers
- Larry AlexanderRalph ContursiDenver McLeodBill Ward
- Artistic Associate
- Julia RifinoJames Putnam
- Lighting Shop
- Christie Lites (Rep: Brad Gray )
About the Show
Tell Me on a Sunday, a one-act song cycle by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black, tells the story of Emma, an ordinary British hat-maker who journeys to America in search of love, with her romantic misadventures taking her from New York City to Los Angeles and back to Manhattan as she realizes the road to love is never as simple as it seems.
Source: Concord
Cast
Julia Rifino as The WomanMaiky Ayala as The ManDavid Tanciar as The ManMark Wildman as The Man
Orchestra
Michael Raabe on Music Director / Piano (Keys)David Tagliarini on Woodwinds (Flute / Alto Flute / Sax / Tenor Sax)George Alexander on CelloRichard Jimenez on BassPaul Stoddart on GuitarBurt Rushing on DrumsMelanie Downs on Drums (select performances)Josh Hollenbeck on Woodwinds (select performances)Kenny Walker on Bass (select performances)
Production Photos
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Coupled with Mike Wood's elite lighting design elements, working seamlessly to evoke the same emotion as our ingenue.
Coupled with Mike Wood's elite lighting design elements, working seamlessly to evoke the same emotion as our ingenue.
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