Email* Submit 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.”