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Episode: Deaf Broadway makes statement with ASL version of Sondheim’s ‘Company’
Description: Before taking the stage as Bobby in “Stephen Sondheim’s Company by Deaf Broadway,” Garrett Zuercher shared how the all-deaf theater company began. Zuercher says he never intended to start a theater company, but during a Sondheim watch party over Zoom, he noticed the captioning was “not adequate” for a Deaf audience.
“Sondheim is famous for his complex music, his overlapping rhythms – two songs happening simultaneously – and captions really can’t reflect that,” Zuercher said. So, Zuercher, and his friends, who include James “Joey” Caverly, from Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building,” decided to do something about it. They created a company of Deaf acto...