ASL-interpreted Theater, part 3 - Sharing the words or sharing the experience?

The music is iconic.



What's Phantom without that pipe organ?

But what if you can't hear the music? If you are, in fact, Deaf or hard of hearing and attending interpreted theater?

So how can the interpreters translate that theme music into something tactile?

It's not in ASL.
There's no sign for pipe organ that shows the intensity of that music.
Even facial expressions can't convey it.
So what to do?

Wait for it...

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Hasn't everyone, at some point, hummed into a balloon just to feel the vibrations against their hands?
Like sitting on an amplifier, holding the black balloons translated the music into something tactile.

It's not all signs, it's communicating what's happening.