Bragging about myself -- from a review of Three Sistahs at MetroStage

MetroStage Good work was done by the design team as well. Milagros Ponce de Léon’s nicely detailed setting has a number of features that Jones uses in his staging to great effect. Some of the walls are solid but others are thin painted cloth through which the audience can see what the sisters cannot. One of the nicest moments of the show has each sister holding a candle, seemingly alone with her own thoughts but lined up and connected by the softly lovely number they sing, "Temple of My Dream." LeVonne Lindsay’s costumes evoke time, generation and economic status for each of the three without overdoing the 1960’s feel. No Mama Mia! pink spandex or flashy polyester Nehru jacket excesses. Instead the feel is just right for the characters and time. Adam Magazine’s lighting design similarly avoids flashy excesses but delicately differentiates time and mood from scene to scene, while Alison Sigethy’s follow spot work is about as subtle and unobtrusive as has been seen on a local stage in a while. Tony Angelini’s sound design amplifies the voices, which seems extraneous given the strength of the three ladies’ voices in such a small room. But it appeared to be necessary to compete with the band which, although only a piano, bass and guitar, seemed to fill the space and might have crowded out the voices.