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Producers used familiar Robin Hood branding and silhouettes of a cityscape as background for the cocktail area.

In the cocktail, dining, and performance areas, producers used nearly 450 rigging points—the kind of number involved with award show productions.

Designer Peter Crawford recreated a Robin Hood school in Bedford–Stuyvesant with simulated architectural elements and videos from classes.

The building representing a Robin Hood-funded shelter included projections of Google Street View images and video from inside the facility's apartments.

In case guests hadn't noticed the giant yellow arrow pointing to the dining room, drapes dividing the two spaces were pulled apart just before the meal and program.

As they did last year, Robin Hood producers used IML audience response systems for anonymous and silent donations.

Robin Hood newcomer DeJuan Stroud Inc. was charged with creating the floral design for the dining area.

As in years past, entrance to the cocktail area was through a long, cylindrical tunnel.

Guests got a taste of the map theme in the registration area, where a diagram of Robin Hood funded facilities hung over the entryway.

Stroud's centerpieces included mirrors, clear Lucite, candles, water-filled vases of viburnum, and text containing Robin Hood's six verbs.