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On every level, the design for Broadway's Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson is about bear-hugging the audience for 90 minutes, with an actual bear or two thrown in. "I wanted to create a world in which one couldn't tell the difference between a lighting idea or a scenic one; it was all compiled into a total experience," says LD Justin Townsend. "Many of the fixtures I simply strapped to the set or created compositions of hanging units in the exact same way that Donyale does in her "mash-up' scenery style. The lights then are able to act as an architecture, or scenery, alongside their use to illuminate a scene. Our relationship was very call-and-response: One day, a bear appeared in front of my lights, cutting the clean, crisp backlight line, so I just wrapped the light around it. This wasn't the kind of show that could be built in the shop; it had to happen in the room, which is not standard Broadway, and we saw some real support from the local in making it unique."