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The Kansas Arts Commission, The Lied Center of Kansas and the Audio-Reader Network have teamed up to provide AUDIO DESCRIPTION at many of the Lied Center performances, as well as other theater productions in Lawrence, Topeka and Kansas City. Several performances will be described at UMKC's Missouri Rep theater and the Lawrence Community Theater, as will most performances at Johnson County Community College's Yardley Hall. Describers broadcast from a booth into tiny wireless headphones, and will describe the theater layout, stage, costumes, etc. before the show. During the performance, important and relevant visual information will be discreetly described. At the Lied Center and Yardley hall, the description system is part of the hearing reinforcement system, built in when the theater was constructed. The headphones also provide a channel with the theater sound, to make it easier for anyone with hearing problems to follow the dialog and music. They can be switched from Audio Description to Sound System Amplification, or can even be set in a position which allows the wearer to hear both channels. At performances where the describers provide a portable listening system, like Lawrence's Community Theatre, Missouri Rep, the Cotillion, or any others without a built-in system, patrons pick up a small receiver with headphones, like a Walkman. The describers transmit an FM signal to the headphone receivers. Here's a schedule of upcoming events which will feature Audio Description. No reservation or advance scheduling is required to hear the description. Just come to the performance and find the table in the lobby with the headphones, and pick up a set.
Remember, though, that for most shows only one performance will be audio described, usually the last night of that particular show. (This allows the describers to attend an earlier performance to prepare for the described show.)
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2000/01
Audio description schedule
LIED CENTER
Kwaidan:
Three Japanese Ghost Stories, Thursday, Aug. 31, 8:00 p.m.
Carol Jones
Kim
Miller
Anything
Goes, Saturday,
September 23, 8:00 p.m.
Harold
Asner
Daniel
Lassley
Waiting
for Godot, Monday,
October 2, 8: 00 p.m.
Kim
Miller
Linda
Gaumnitz
Man of
La Mancha, Friday,
October 13, 8:00 p.m.
Dan
Lassley
Harold
Asner
Alexander
and the Terrible, Horrible, Not Good, Very Bad Day, Monday, October 30, 10:00 a.m.
TBD
Dracula:
The Film and Music, Thursday, November 2, 8:00 p.m.
Carol
Jones
TBD
King
Stag, Thursday, November 9, 8:00 p.m.
Dan
Lassley
Annamarie
Hill
Showboat, Thursday, November 16, 8:00 p.m.
Annamarie
Hill
Carol
Jones
Chicago, Friday, February 2, 8:00 p.m.
Dan
Lassley
Peg
Sampson
Giselle, Saturday, February 3, 8:00 p.m.
Annamarie
Hill
Kim Miller
Peter
Pan, Friday,
February 23, 7:00 p.m.
Peg
Sampson
Pat
Ashley-Hiscock
Aida, Sunday, March
11, 7:00 p.m.
Carol Jones
Kim Miller
Drak
Puppet Theatre,
Friday, April 27, 7:30 p.m.*****
Annamarie
Hill
Kim
Miller
LAWRENCE
COMMUNITY THEATRE
Inherit
the Wind, Thursday,
October 5, 2000
Peg
Sampson
Pat Ashely-Hiscock
The Last
Night of Ballyhoo,
Sunday, February 4, 7:30 p.m.
Daniel
Lassley
Kim
Miller
All I
Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, Sunday, March 11
Harold Asner
TBD
Cat on a
Hot Tin Roof , Wednesday, April 25
Dan Lassley
Kim Miller
JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Garth
Fagan Dance, Saturday,
September 30, 8 p.m.
TBD
Alabama Shakespeare Festival
in
Fair and Tender Ladies, Saturday, October 7, 8 p.m.
Harold Asner
Kim Miller
Ballet
Gran Folklorico,
Friday, October 20, 8 p.m.
Annamarie
Hill
Harold
Asner
Victoria, Friday, October 27, 8 p.m.****
TBD
Atlanta
Ballet in Peter Pan, Saturday, November 18, 8 p.m.****
John
Trinkl
Annamarie
Hill
Doc
Watson, Friday,
January 26, 8 p.m.
John Trinkl
Harold
Asner
Montana Rep
in Diary
of Anne Frank, Saturday, February 3, 8 p.m.
Harold
Asner
Martha
Kemp
Thomas
Kubinek – Certified Lunatic,
Saturday, February 10, 8 p.m.
TBD
Aeros, Saturday, February 24, 8 p.m.****
Annamarie
Hill
John
Trinkl
London City
Opera
in Carmen,
Saturday, March 3, 8 p.m.
Carol
Jones
John
Trinkl
The Acting
Company
in Comedy
of Errors, Friday, March 23, 8 p.m.
Dan Lassley
Kim Miller
The Acting
Company
in O Pioneers,
Saturday, March 24, 8 p.m.
Harold
Asner
Peg
Sampson
Royal Ballet of Flanders
in Three
Musketeers, Sunday, April 1, 7 p.m.
Annamarie
Hill
Harold
Asner
Ballet
Trocadero, Saturday, April 14, 8 p.m.****
Carol
Jones
John
Trinkl
Paul Taylor
Dance, Saturday, May 19, 8 p.m.****
Harold
Asner
Martha
Kemp
MISSOURI REPERTORY THEATRE
A
Christmas Carol,
Sunday, December 3, 7:00 p.m.
Harold
Asner
Annamarie
Hill
For more information about providing Audio Description at other theaters and performances in northeast Kansas and the Kansas City area, visit the Audio Description web page.
October 4, 2000 © Audio-Reader, the University of Kansas E-mail to Art