How To Make A Musical For The Deaf

I'm not the only one who thinks they're all attractive, am I? And participating in something like this (as both a deaf or a hearing person) makes them even more attractive...

I'm so glad musicals and Broadway are making a journey into pop culture without being considered "lame" or "dorky" or "gay."

Spring awakening is such a good musical too 👌🏼

spring awakening is my favorite musical and the fact that its being re-done to cater to deaf people makes me so incredibly happy

Finally, a BuzzFeed video I actually care about! I hope it gets more attention to Spring Awakening when people watch this, because it's one of my favorite musicals.

I wish they had spoken with the director, Michael Arden, about this genius idea. This production was so artfully done and he really deserves a ton of credit for bringing it to audiences.

They deserved a Tony... no offence to Hamilton tho, it's awesome, but seriously, it's a deaf version of Spring Awakening, they deserved a recognition for the choreography at least ._.

No one will understand how much I love Spring Awakening, it's completely ridiculous how much I love it.

daniel durant and alex boniello are two very different types of attractive and I think it's beautiful that this production of spring awakening gave people with wildly different tastes the same opportunity to get a crush on moritz

I've always wondered how the deaf could appreciate musicals. This kind of fulfilled that curiosity. Thanks Buzzfeed.

I wish it was compulsory for every school in the word to teach sign language because then, regardless of what language you speak or if you are deaf, everyone will be able to talk to one another. It would be amazing.

Andy Mientus <3 Amazing Hanschen :)

a video about Deaf people and no captions?

Argh people in the comments - get your facts straight!! Sign language is NOT universal, it is different in every country and some countries even have more than one sign language. Also sign language isn't based on the spoken language of a certain country. So for an example the sign order is usually different from the word order of a certain language. Deaf people CAN speak if they are willing to practice, but many of them don't want to learn it, which is understandable since sign language is their natural language. Sign language isn't just some kind of language aid that some one has come up with to help deaf people. Sign languages are completely natural languages that have developed by themselves in the deaf communities around the world.

WHY ARE JOSH AND ANDY SO INCREDIBLY ADORABLE

The deaf west production of spring awakening is actually what has inspired to learn sign language!

Having seen the broadway, first national, second national and regional productions of Spring Awakening, I have to say that the Deaf West's version by far the best version I've seen of the show. I've been a die hard "Guilty One" (SA Fan), of the show and casts. This adaptation however brings a whole different element to not just the story-telling process, but the actual story of miscommunication, angst, and just wanting to be heard. Bravo to this production and so glad to see it highlighted on such a notable pop-culture based medium such as Buzzed.

First we saw a blind guy flying an airplane and now we see a deaf guy doing something that a person has all senses can do... We live in an amazing era!

Did you see Moritz reach for the gun at the end? 😭

During the signing parts, I just turned the volume off because I could understand them, as I speak ASL almost daily to my parents.