"Jones’ choreography is fun and enthusiastic, just as a high school musical should be, while Paris’ set design, with its hand-painted, comic book aesthetic, is both simple and highly effective"

- Musical Theatre Review

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"In setting that atmosphere, designer Tom Paris and lighting designer Edward Pagett deserve special mention. The map backcloth and cartoon labels move us brilliantly around small-town Indiana. Pagett’s lighting tracing it on the map, knowing exactly when to highlight action or change a mood." 

- Theatre Monkey

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"Tom Paris’ set and costume design evokes perfectly a cartoon sense of modern American teenage life. It seems clearly unreal, yet curiously real, at the same time."

- Live Theatre UK

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"An unfussy set, from Tom Paris, balanced out the big dance routines and was thoughtfully utilised to stage a variety of locations. A giant map of Appleton would illuminate key areas to indicate whereabouts in town each scene was staged and characters would wheel out frames with signs for different hangouts: bedrooms, high school lockers, the gym, a local Dairy Queen."

- Entertainment Focus

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