This is a fantastic thrill and I have a lot of thanks and I'm going to get through them as fast as I can. First of all, for Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas and Bart Sher, who allowed me to put the physical light into their ravishing, radiant, and astonishing musical. I'm forever grateful for the opportunity that you have given me. Second of all, to this terrific band of colleagues and collaborators that we were working with: Michael Yeargan, Catherine Zuber, Nevin Steinberg, Ted Sperling, Jonathan Butterell, Thom Widmann, as well as the most fantastic and luminous cast ever put together, it seems to me. I have to thank my assistants Mike Spadaro, Kathleen Dobbins--I will never get off the stage here without thanking my friend and agent Mickey Rolfe, my friend Jennifer Tipton. Thanks to André Bishop, Bernie Gersten, Ira Weitzman and everyone at Lincoln Center Theater for their generous and warm support of this project. Thanks too to one of the most wonderful and supportive groups of electricians (led by Patrick Merryman and Bruce Rubin) I've ever had the pleasure to work with. I share this award with each and every one of them. And, it seems to me one last thing in standing here that I have to remember: my mother, who passed away in November, she would have loved this moment, and she would have loved Adam and Craig's beautiful musical.