The 2000-strong audience wore full evening dress.

Ideally the audience who will come to this theater will wear sneakers," says the deck-shoe-clad director with a laugh.

The audiences wore desert khaki, not jungle camouflage or olive drab.

The audience wore polarized glasses to view the effect.

The audience wore party hats.

The extra dimension comes from polarized lenses the audience wears, given out at the entrance.

The audience, dressed for Saturday night, wore everything from ponchos to cowboy outfits with hats, to the slick style found in provincial capitals across Mexico.

No, the audience will not wear cardboard glasses with red and green lenses, as they did in the old days.

"I want the audience to wear sneakers and dress over-the-top, too," she said.

But the audience they're trying to influence doesn't wear stars.