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"""The ISD students form the Sharks, the Puerto Rican gang warring with the Anglo Jets, who are played by MacMurray students, some of them deaf education majors. Tension is rampant throughout the rehearsal process with crises cropping up daily. But near the end some of the mess is cleared when Brewer brings in a brilliant interpreter who fills the role most crucial to any theater involving signing actors, but which Brewer did not know of before--a sign master.""-- ""SIGNews"" ""This is a lively and innovative idea, but it hardly seems like sufficient fodder for a book. But not long into the production's planning stages, Mark Rigney, Ms. Brewster's husband, realized that the drama around the drama brought together cultures that rarely meet with the sustained intimacy the theater generates; he has put together a surprisingly interesting account of the dynamics that repeatedly created havoc and eventually came together to produce a successful and unusual production.""-- ""Santa Barbara News Press"" ""It was nothing less than 'a spark, a flash' in the theatergoers' lexicon. The combustion emanated from the Broadway classic 'West Side Story, ' as played out in Illinois by a part-deaf, part-hearing young company. It was a joint venture between MacMurray College and the Illinois School for the Deaf in 2000. And it nearly didn't happen."" -- ""The Boston Globe"""

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Mark Rigney is a writer whose stories have appeared in THEMA and The Bellevue Review, and whose plays have been staged at the Foothill Theatre Company, the Utah Shakespeare Festival, and the Alleyway Theatre. He lives in Evansville, IN.

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