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Deaf Side Story (Paperback)
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Deaf Side Story (Paperback)
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The 1957 classic American musical West Side Story has been staged
by countless community and school theater groups, but none more
ambitious than the 2000 production by MacMurray College, a small
school in Jacksonville, Illinois. Diane Brewer, the new drama head
at the college, determined to add an extra element to the usual
demands of putting on a show by having deaf students perform half
of the parts. Deaf Side Story presents a fascinating narrative of
Brewer and the cast's efforts to mount this challenging play.
Brewer turned to the Illinois School for the Deaf (ISD) to cast the
Sharks, the Puerto Rican gang at odds with the Anglo Jets in this
musical version of Romeo and Juliet set in the slums of New York.
Hearing performers auditioned to be the Jets, and once Brewer had
cast her hearing Tony and deaf Maria, then came the challenge of
teaching them all to sing/sign and dance the riveting show numbers
for which the musical is renowned. She also had to manage a series
of sensitive issues, from ensuring the seamless incorporation of
American Sign Language into the play to reassuring ISD
administrators and students that the production would not be
symbolic of any conflict between Deaf and hearing people. Author
Mark Rigney portrays superbly the progress of the production,
including the frustrations and triumphs of the leads, the
labyrinthine campus and community politics, and the inevitable
clashes between the deaf high school cast members and their hearing
college counterparts. His representations of the many individuals
involved are real and distinguished. The ultimate success of the
MacMurray production reverberates in Deaf Side Story as a keen
depiction of how several distinctindividuals from as many cultures
could cooperate to perform a classic American art form brilliantly
together.
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