So a set of new 100 percent cotton white percale sheets - lace-trimmed - might evoke a night at the Ritz in Paris.

(Angela Moore's blond-wood-paneled set evokes every suburban rec room that ever was.)

Zack Brown's sets evoke drabness with literal exactitude.

Paul Steinberg's sets evoke with a minimum of detail the straight-backed, hard-seated ambiance of a private school.

Jocelyn Herbert's sets and costumes still evoke the period brilliantly.

Stephan Weiss's new set evokes the ship's prow and widow's walk of the original designs in contemporary terms.

Yet the simple set does evoke the city streets that are the subject of the tap piece, which is subtitled "an urban riff."

A handsome set evokes an outlying bamboo forest and an eerie, dominating moon.

The sets, again at the Chatelet, evoke 18th-century Naples with a languorous beauty into which, in the second act, an element of decay is injected.

In between, a set of six variations evokes whale song in eerily glassy cello slides.