Nominated musicals and musical revivals traditionally get a spot to promote their shows with a song or two on each year's Tony Award telecast. But it's not free. Producers must pay for the expense of promoting their productions to a nationwide television audience.

So even though Los Angeles' Deaf West Theatre's limited run Broadway revival of Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater's SPRING AWAKENING was nominated as one of this season's best, $200,000 is needed to pay the costs of having the now-closed production featured on the June 12th telecast.

To that end, Deaf West, which is a non-profit theatre company, has set up a Kickstarter campaign to raise the money needed to fly the cast back to New York, get the costumes and instruments and props out of storage, pay for rehearsal space and pay for the television time.

Click here for more information and to donate.

Deaf West Theatre, Inc. (DWT) was founded in 1991 to directly improve and enrich the cultural lives of over 1.2 million deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals who live in the Los Angeles area. To date, DWT has produced over 40 plays and 4 musicals, won more than 80 theater awards, performed on Broadway, and has been nominated for one Tony Award. For its unique vision and artistic excellence throughout its eighteen-year history, DWT is recognized as the premier sign language theater in the United States. DWT has consistently strived for the highest artistic quality by bringing together some of the most exciting theater professionals from the hearing world to work with deaf and hard of hearing actors of the highest caliber in ambitious American Sign Language adaptations that range from contemporary masterpieces and original works to the classics. DWT has helped launch and nurture the careers of many of today's most recognizable deaf actors. DWT's productions and internationally acclaimed educational programs have contributed significantly to the vibrancy of deaf culture and American theater. Visit deafwest.org.

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