Editor's note.(Editorial)
American Theatre, July, 2003 by O'Quinn, Jim
"I'm lightin' out for the western territories," Huckleberry Finn announces in the final moments of Big River, the Tony-winning show whose upcoming New York revival is a first-of-its-kind production--a Broadway musical that is cast with a mixture of deaf and hearing actors and signed throughout to make it accessible to the hearing-impaired.
Arts reporter Karen Wada's behind-the-scenes cover story, tracking the production's creative trajectory from the rehearsal rooms of Los Angeles's Deaf West Theatre to the marquees of 42nd Street, turns out to be just one of several ...
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