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Published July 01. 2021 6:22PM
Kathleen Stauffer
Kathleen Stauffer
The ocean was layered with the legion-blue and emerald-green waves that curl along Florida’s Treasure Coast. We were newly vaccinated and on our honeymoon.
A table of cruise travelers nearby was taking the joviality that so often accompanies vacations and fruity drinks to a new level of loud. Despite a blazing sunshine, their merriment dampened the atmosphere for the rest of us. One bellowing fellow repeatedly ignored his friends’ polite shushes while the rest of us winced, exchanged glances and shook heads in mutual annoyance.
“I’m so retarded!”
“Sh-h-h….” With a futile whisper, an embarrassed dining companion tried a redirect. “I told you, we don’t say that word anymore.”
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The camera is focused on a young woman standing centerstage at the Garde Arts Center, and it captures behind her the empty but dramatically illuminated theater. The strains of one of the most powerful and empowering numbers on “The Greatest Showman’s” soundtrack begin.
As the lyrics are spelled out, literally, on screen, the woman uses American Sign Language to relay them. But she also conveys all the emotions in the song the hurt, the pride, the love, the self-confidence.
Along with her evocative facial expressions and arm movements, she mouths the words to “This is Me”: “When the sharpest words wanna cut me down / I’m gonna send a flood, gonna drown ‘em out / I am brave, I am bruised / I am who I’m meant to be, this is me … I’m not scared to be seen / I make no apologies, this is me.”