STAGE TUBE: Deaf West Theatre's DJ Kurs Tells How SPRING AWAKENING Will Be The Most Accessible Show on Broadway

DJ Kurs, Artistic Director of Deaf West Theatre, is very excited to have their production of Spring Awakening on Broadway and has taped a video to explain how they intend to make this the most accessible production in Broadway history.

Every line and lyric in the musical will be voiced and signed, and sometimes captioned. There will be special captioned performances for those with hearing loss who cannot read sign and audio described performances for the blind.

More innovations are on the way.

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.