“Big River”
At the time when I purchased the tickets for the Broadway production of “Big River”, a production of The Deaf West Theatre, I did not know what to expect. I questioned how they were going to express the sign language as well as singing and voice all in one. I wondered if there was going to be interpreters or was the whole story going to be told in sign language.
When I first arrived and walked up to the crowd of people in line I realized that only a few people out of at least a hundred people were communicating in sign language. I found that a little surprising due to the fact that the performance was put on by a lot of deaf performers; therefore, I assumed that the majority of the people in attendance would be from within the deaf community. But, to surprise my assumption had been wrong…completely wrong.