PHOTOS BY JEREMY NILES Ilana Schimmel, left, and Danielle MacMath co-star in “Ode to Joy.” When Mala sees Adele’s painting for the first time in Craig Lucas’ “Ode to Joy,” she finds them disturbing. “Did someone lock you in the trunk of a car on acid when you were 5, or something?” she asks. Bill, though, has the opposite reaction, immediately offering to buy one. This is good news for Adele, who admits she is just “eking by” as a painter. “I have a minuscule coterie of insane fans who love my work but who might just be saying that to keep me from hurling myself off a building,” she says. The …