TWITTER WATCH: SPRING AWAKENING's Opening Night Company Bow on Video

Audience members didn't just stand, cheer and applaud after the opening night performance of Deaf West Theatre's Broadway production of Spring Awakening. Many of them shook their hands in the air; the American Sign Language way of applauding.

SPRING AWAKENING, the Tony Award-winning Best Musical of 2007, plays a strictly limited Broadway engagement at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre (256 West 47th Street). 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.