Blues in the Night
By Sheldon Epps
Meadow Brook Theatre 2023
Directed by Tyrick Jones
Scenic Design by Kristen Gribbin
Lighting Design by Neil Koivu
Costume Design by Karen Kangas-Preston
Sound Design by Mike Duncan
This musical review was a lot of fun to design, with a lot of haze and colors. I’ve always been a fan of the blues and the music was great. Each of the Ladies start out in their rooms, and eventually take over the entire stage. Due to my tight schedule I really embraced some previs and preprogramming the entire show before tech so that everything went every smooth. Yes I needed to fix things during tech, but so much of the show was there it was very easy to fix cues and get the show up and running.
![Each of the Ladies singing Blue Blues in their room right before the Man takes over to sing Four Walls [And One Dirty Window] Blues](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61b2162da81d8a6808f5ec9a/446215c9-4851-459b-b702-83b2991b746b/IMG_3241.jpg)
Each of the Ladies singing Blue Blues in their room right before the Man takes over to sing Four Walls [And One Dirty Window] Blues
All of the women singing It Makes My Love Come Down
The Lady singing Stompin' At the Savoy while The Man dances and sings back up
The Lady singing Lush Life
The Man singing I'm Just a Lucky So-And-So from up in his balcony
The Man singing WIld Women Don't have the Blues
Leaving The Girl in a deep blue light at the end of Lover Man
The Woman at the end of her singing Kitchen Man while doing a faux striptease with a feathered fan
The women singing Blues in the Night
As The Man joins in with Blues in the Night
Leaving everyone isolated in their rooms at the end of Blues in the Night
The Man singing with the band
The Woman singing Dirty No-Gooder Blues to the Lady and the Girl (who throw in interjections)
The Lady singing Rough and Ready Man downstage center
The Girl in the Bar during Reckless Blues
The Girl moves to the band while Singing Reckless BLues
The Woman at the end of Wasted Life Blues
As everyone joins in singing Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
Everyone ends up at the bar at the end of Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
The cast singing I Gotta Right to sing the Blues on the stairs
The end of I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues