Originally posted by northernladuk
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Have to say I love watching people signing. I would love to be able to do it. I used to watch the programs late at night with the signer but the introduction of babestation put an end to that. Saying that I would be pretty annoyed if it was a distraction to the show.
Should have stood up and yelled 'how many people in here are deaf' and when no one put their hand up you should have requested the signer do one as it wasn't needed.
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I did but he didn't say anything. Not sure he heard me or was just ignoring me!
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Originally posted by Troll View PostSo instead of watching the choreography on the stage they will spend all their time watching the signer and interpreting their hand movements - for something like Cats would appear to be a self defeating approach as it's mostly a visual show
Now a Rock Concert would be a different matter - would you say this should be addressed at say Glastonbury so deaf people can be accommodated?
My point about the subtitles in an opera stands. Its about making it accessible. I can't speak Italian, but I have been to an opera performed in Italian and the subtitles allowed me to follow what was happening on the stage. Without it I would have been completely lost. It meant that I went to the opera, that they got a paying customer through the door - without the subtitles I would not have gone as it would have just been a few hours of fat people screeching at me.
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Originally posted by Troll View PostMust have been this tour did you see it in Llandudno?- if so perhaps it's a local thannng
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Originally posted by Troll View PostHow would it work for a chorus - would they all be gesticulating?
they would do a mexican wave. obviously
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Originally posted by EternalOptimist View PostBrilliant. Some of the greatest inventions come out of a moment of idle chatter
I am going to call this the FitzEO method :-
what you do is to incorporate the signing into the choreography. I mean, what do the performers do with their hands normally? they just get in the way so they may as well do something useful. Think of the money saved on a signer and Troll can watch Cats undisturbed, all alone with his memories, of the days in the sun.
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostApparently Brussels didn't approve of the plan to gas all the people with disabilities, so now society is supposed to take simple measures to accommodate them
I am going to call this the FitzEO method :-
what you do is to incorporate the signing into the choreography. I mean, what do the performers do with their hands normally? they just get in the way so they may as well do something useful. Think of the money saved on a signer and Troll can watch Cats undisturbed, all alone with his memories, of the days in the sun.
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Originally posted by MyUserName View PostI saw Cats a few months ago and there was no signer there.
I have seen a few musicals (I take my mother at least once a year) over the passed few years and have never seen a signer at any performance of anything now I think about it.
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