Part of TDF's "Access for Young Audiences" program incorporates audio described performances of Broadway shows for students who are blind or have low vision.
After a November audio described performance of "Wicked," TDF asked 10th grader Daniel Gillen to write an article about his experience.
The article is titled "Wicked" Good Time: An Accessible Performance With Audio Description By Daniel Gillen, and begins
"Based on my experience at the musical Wicked, audio description may help increase the visually-impaired community's interest in largely visual forms of entertainment. This is especially true of musical theatre. The music may be pleasing and agreeable to the ears of one with or without vision, but when there is no dialogue, those without vision can only know what is occurring with some form of audio description.
When I attended the audio-described performance of Wicked on November 11, 2009, my fellow students at the Lighthouse Music School and I were able to take in nearly as much information (and experience as much enjoyment) as the sighted audience around us."
To read the full article click here:
http://www.tdf.org/TDF_Article.aspx?id=345&do=v
TDF's next audio described performances for young people are February 17 and February 24 (matinees both) of "The Miracle Worker" on Broadway.
Article reprinted with permission from www.BroadwayWorld.com
