STAGE TUBE: Can You Spot The Hidden Message In SPRING AWAKENING's Broadway Art?
By: Michael Dale Aug. 26, 2015
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DJ Kurs, Artist Director of Deaf West Theatre, explains to hearing community playgoers how the company wanted Spring Awakening's Broadway art work to contain a message specific to the deaf community.
"Sign language is not mere gesture," he explains. "It is a fully formed language with its own rules. Here, it is an integral part of the show. We sought to include this spirit in the poster."
SPRING AWAKENING, the Tony Award-winning Best Musical of 2007, will play a strictly limited Broadway engagement at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre (256 West 47th Street) with previews beginning on Tuesday, September 8 and opening night set for Sunday, September 27. The show will run 18 weeks only, through Saturday, January 9, with no extension possible. It will be performed simultaneously in American Sign Language and spoken and sung in English by a cast of 28. Deaf West Theatre was last represented on Broadway with the triumphant production of Big River in 2003.
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