“From the moment the Technicolor magic of lighting designer Michael Walton’s neon heaven of New York’s Times Square sends megawatt sizzles of rainbow lights across Broadway and 42nd Street, you know you aren’t in Stratford anymore. You’re in Oz, of course, by way of the naughty 1940s and those nifty 1950s.
Designer Michael Gianfrancesco has created a landscape of old post cards. They’re all here — Broadway girlie shows, dance hall tango parlours and all-night automats, where Broadway low-lifes, hot-to-trot chorus girls and checked-suit gamblers prowled a terrain that could only exist in the glorious fantasies of writer Damon Runyon.”