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​From an early age of watching westerns with my father, I knew instantly when the bad guy entered because of the music. The same is true for stage lighting. The last several years I have learned that stage lighting is an art form, that influences & impacts the experience. For a production such as Madagascar Jr. the lighting design, & planning takes many hours to implement. At every rehearsal, I sit with a script in hand, jotting down notes. Such as when the director tells a child where to stand for a solo, I write that in my script – soloist down stage right. Other times I determine the mood of the scene, such as a dream scene versus the villains. I compiled a list of all these notes. From there I determine how many lights repeat, for example there are 7 scenes, so we need seven black outs.