Joshua Castille enters the world of “ Romeo and Juliet” from behind a stand of trees, pushing a low branch from his face as he approaches from the wings. Benvolio greets him with a gesture in American Sign Language — “good morrow, cousin!”
For the next several hours, Romeo won’t speak aloud. Castille, a Chicago-based Deaf actor making his debut at American Players Theatre this summer, doesn’t wear his hearing aids onstage, to fully embody a young character who — like Juliet — is struggling to be heard.
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Marcal Theater, Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, 1937
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Sometimes I watch a movie and I’m like woah!! This must have made a billion dollars it’s incredible!!! And then I google it and it didn’t even make the budget back 😔 fuck the critics and the general population too THATS A GOOD MOVIE I SWEAR
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If I had a nickel for every lighthaired blue demon that I [REDACTED] I would have two ni
(now in technicolor)
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Okay, so I know this is an extremely niche ask, but I've gotten really into this clip from a special performance of Elisabeth for deaf and hard-of-hearing musical theatre fans in Essen in 2002:
Since then, I've been trying to find the two other videos that I know exist from this performance (thumbnails shown below); one of Maike Boerdam and Jesper Tyden rehearsing "Der Schleier fällt" and the other of the final bows. Unfortunately, the website that it came from shut down in 2018, and although it is on the Internet Archive, the links for the videos were not archived, so all I have are these thumbnails:
If anyone has these videos downloaded, or knows where I can find them, please let me know. As a hard-of-hearing musical theatre fan, I really try to find any scraps of information on mainstream musicals made accessible for the Deaf community, and I was so excited when I heard that Elisabeth (one of my all-time favorite musicals) had done a performance involving sign in any capacity!
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A Raisin in the Sun and The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
Lorraine Hansberry
FYI - this is 1 of 12 vintage paperback classics that comprise our current giveaw@y.
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Il materiale di origine: @calamawy (Instagram) / Tim Nolan, Oscar Isaac, May Calamawy and Josh Holland outside the stage door for The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window at BAM Harvey Theater in New York City. (4th February, 2023)
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