5th Avenue Theatre releases captioning schedule
Seattle's Fifth Avenue Theatre this week released its schedule of captioned performances for the 2009-10 season.
The first captioned performance will be "Catch Me If You Can," a new musical version of the Leonardo di Caprio movie based on the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction biography of Frank Abegnale, an imposter-embezzler who used his gift of gab to pose as a professional in a number of fields, and made off with millions in the process. The captioned performance will be Wednesday, August 12, at 7:30 p.m.
The rest of the schedule is:
"Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," Friday, Oct. 23, 8 p.m.
"White Christmas," Sunday, Dec. 27, 1:30 p.m.
"South Pacific," (the revival by Intiman Theatre's Bartlett Sher that won seven Tony Awards), Saturday, Feb. 20, 2 p.m.
"Legally Blonde," another movie-turned-musical, Friday, March 5, 8 p.m.
"On the Town," Friday, April 23, 8 p.m.
"Candide," Wednesday, June 2, 7:30 p.m.
Fifth Avenue is undertaking captioned performances at the request of the Washinton State Communication Access Project (Wash-CAP), a non-profit membership corporation whose goal is to make Washington's public places accessible to people with hearing loss. The captioning arrangement will be very similar to Seattle's Paramount Theatre -- a portable reader-board will be placed to one side of the stage, and the captions will be scrolled in synch with the performance.
Fifth Avenue will sell two tickets to the captioned section at a discounted price of $37. Buyers of those discounted tickets can buy two additional tickets at the regular price.
Season subscriptions to the captioned performances are available. You can get the details on the "Accessibility" page of Fifth Avenue's website, http://www.5thavenue.org/accessibility/.
For those who can't attend the special captioned performances, Fifth Avenue will offer scripts in illuminated binders at all performances.
Fifth Avenue joins Seattle's Paramount Theatre in becoming accessible to people with significant hearing losses by offering one captioned performance of each of its Broadway-type productions. Paramount's schedule for the remainder of 2009 is available on a prior post.
