“For all his scavenger skills,[Todd] Barton hopes he doesn’t distract audiences. ‘I don’t want you going out humming tunes, because then I’ve brought too much attention to myself,’ he says. ‘I’m vodka. I enhance whatever you put with me. If you put lemons in vodka you get essence of lemon. If you put a play in me, I enhance the story, propel the plot.'”