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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><h1>Lyric Opera's new SoundShirts let deaf patrons feel the music<o:p></o:p></h1><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;border:none;padding:0in'><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#333335;mso-ligatures:none'><a href="https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2023/09/24/lyric-opera-sound-shirt-deaf-hard-of-hearing?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter">https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2023/09/24/lyric-opera-sound-shirt-deaf-hard-of-hearing?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;border:none;padding:0in'><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#333335;mso-ligatures:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f">
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The lights correspond to where vibration is hitting on the body as the orchestra plays. Photo courtesy of Hannah Edgar.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='border:none;padding:0in;box-sizing: border-box;--tw-border-spacing-x: 0;--tw-border-spacing-y: 0;--tw-translate-x: 0;--tw-translate-y: 0;--tw-rotate: 0;--tw-skew-x: 0;--tw-skew-y: 0;--tw-scale-x: 1;--tw-scale-y: 1;--tw-pan-x: ;--tw-pan-y: ;--tw-pinch-zoom: ;--tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity;--tw-ordinal: ;--tw-slashed-zero: ;--tw-numeric-figure: ;--tw-numeric-spacing: ;--tw-numeric-fraction: ;--tw-ring-inset: ;--tw-ring-offset-width: 0px;--tw-ring-offset-color: #fff;--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5);--tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent;--tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent;--tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent;--tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 transparent;--tw-blur: ;--tw-brightness: ;--tw-contrast: ;--tw-grayscale: ;--tw-hue-rotate: ;--tw-invert: ;--tw-saturate: ;--tw-sepia: ;--tw-drop-shadow: ;--tw-backdrop-blur: ;--tw-backdrop-brightness: ;--tw-backdrop-contrast: ;--tw-backdrop-grayscale: ;--tw-backdrop-hue-rotate: ;--tw-backdrop-invert: ;--tw-backdrop-opacity: ;--tw-backdrop-saturate: ;--tw-backdrop-sepia: ;margin:1.5rem 0px;overflow-wrap: break-word;font-size:1.125rem'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333335'>Chicago's Lyric Opera is introducing state-of-the-art technology that will enable patrons who are deaf or hard of hearing to experience the power of the music in a new way.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='border:none;padding:0in;box-sizing: border-box;--tw-border-spacing-x: 0;--tw-border-spacing-y: 0;--tw-translate-x: 0;--tw-translate-y: 0;--tw-rotate: 0;--tw-skew-x: 0;--tw-skew-y: 0;--tw-scale-x: 1;--tw-scale-y: 1;--tw-pan-x: ;--tw-pan-y: ;--tw-pinch-zoom: ;--tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity;--tw-ordinal: ;--tw-slashed-zero: ;--tw-numeric-figure: ;--tw-numeric-spacing: ;--tw-numeric-fraction: ;--tw-ring-inset: ;--tw-ring-offset-width: 0px;--tw-ring-offset-color: #fff;--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5);--tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent;--tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent;--tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent;--tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 transparent;--tw-blur: ;--tw-brightness: ;--tw-contrast: ;--tw-grayscale: ;--tw-hue-rotate: ;--tw-invert: ;--tw-saturate: ;--tw-sepia: ;--tw-drop-shadow: ;--tw-backdrop-blur: ;--tw-backdrop-brightness: ;--tw-backdrop-contrast: ;--tw-backdrop-grayscale: ;--tw-backdrop-hue-rotate: ;--tw-backdrop-invert: ;--tw-backdrop-opacity: ;--tw-backdrop-saturate: ;--tw-backdrop-sepia: ;margin:1.5rem 0px;overflow-wrap: break-word;font-size:1.125rem'><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333335;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Driving the news: </span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333335'>Lyric will be the first opera company ever to offer the <a href="https://cutecircuit.com/soundshirt/" target="_blank"><span style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>SoundShirt</span></a> — which audience members can wear to literally <em><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>feel </span></em>the music — for live performances.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-right:0in'><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#333335;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;border:none;padding:0in;box-sizing: border-box;--tw-border-spacing-x: 0;--tw-border-spacing-y: 0;--tw-translate-x: 0;--tw-translate-y: 0;--tw-rotate: 0;--tw-skew-x: 0;--tw-skew-y: 0;--tw-scale-x: 1;--tw-scale-y: 1;--tw-pan-x: ;--tw-pan-y: ;--tw-pinch-zoom: ;--tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity;--tw-ordinal: ;--tw-slashed-zero: ;--tw-numeric-figure: ;--tw-numeric-spacing: ;--tw-numeric-fraction: ;--tw-ring-inset: ;--tw-ring-offset-width: 0px;--tw-ring-offset-color: #fff;--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5);--tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent;--tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent;--tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent;--tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 transparent;--tw-blur: ;--tw-brightness: ;--tw-contrast: ;--tw-grayscale: ;--tw-hue-rotate: ;--tw-invert: ;--tw-saturate: ;--tw-sepia: ;--tw-drop-shadow: ;--tw-backdrop-blur: ;--tw-backdrop-brightness: ;--tw-backdrop-contrast: ;--tw-backdrop-grayscale: ;--tw-backdrop-hue-rotate: ;--tw-backdrop-invert: ;--tw-backdrop-opacity: ;--tw-backdrop-saturate: ;--tw-backdrop-sepia: ;padding-left:0.5rem;margin-top:1.5rem'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>It'll be available at select Lyric shows, starting with "The Flying Dutchman" on Oct. 1.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul></div><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p style='border:none;padding:0in;box-sizing: border-box;--tw-border-spacing-x: 0;--tw-border-spacing-y: 0;--tw-translate-x: 0;--tw-translate-y: 0;--tw-rotate: 0;--tw-skew-x: 0;--tw-skew-y: 0;--tw-scale-x: 1;--tw-scale-y: 1;--tw-pan-x: ;--tw-pan-y: ;--tw-pinch-zoom: ;--tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity;--tw-ordinal: ;--tw-slashed-zero: ;--tw-numeric-figure: ;--tw-numeric-spacing: ;--tw-numeric-fraction: ;--tw-ring-inset: ;--tw-ring-offset-width: 0px;--tw-ring-offset-color: #fff;--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5);--tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent;--tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent;--tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent;--tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 transparent;--tw-blur: ;--tw-brightness: ;--tw-contrast: ;--tw-grayscale: ;--tw-hue-rotate: ;--tw-invert: ;--tw-saturate: ;--tw-sepia: ;--tw-drop-shadow: ;--tw-backdrop-blur: ;--tw-backdrop-brightness: ;--tw-backdrop-contrast: ;--tw-backdrop-grayscale: ;--tw-backdrop-hue-rotate: ;--tw-backdrop-invert: ;--tw-backdrop-opacity: ;--tw-backdrop-saturate: ;--tw-backdrop-sepia: ;margin:1.5rem 0px;overflow-wrap: break-word;font-size:1.125rem'><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333335;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Why it matters: </span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333335'>Lyric hopes the technology will make the theater more accessible to fans who are deaf and hard of hearing.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333335'><img border=0 width=2000 height=1326 style='width:20.8333in;height:13.8166in' id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D9F38A.D62D4DF0" alt="Dozens of singers on a stage above an orchestra pit."></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333335'>Dozens of chorus members and the orchestra during a rehearsal of "The Flying Dutchman." Photo: Carrie Shepherd/Axios<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p style='border:none;padding:0in'><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333335;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>How it works: </span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333335'>Microphones are placed over the orchestra and on the stage, recording sounds in real time that are sent to a computer where software translates it to digital data. It's then transported to trigger 16 motors scattered around the shirt, creating a vibration in the front of your shoulders, forearms and upper and lower back.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-right:0in'><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#333335;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:-.25in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3;border:none;padding:0in;box-sizing: border-box;--tw-border-spacing-x: 0;--tw-border-spacing-y: 0;--tw-translate-x: 0;--tw-translate-y: 0;--tw-rotate: 0;--tw-skew-x: 0;--tw-skew-y: 0;--tw-scale-x: 1;--tw-scale-y: 1;--tw-pan-x: ;--tw-pan-y: ;--tw-pinch-zoom: ;--tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity;--tw-ordinal: ;--tw-slashed-zero: ;--tw-numeric-figure: ;--tw-numeric-spacing: ;--tw-numeric-fraction: ;--tw-ring-inset: ;--tw-ring-offset-width: 0px;--tw-ring-offset-color: #fff;--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5);--tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent;--tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent;--tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent;--tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 transparent;--tw-blur: ;--tw-brightness: ;--tw-contrast: ;--tw-grayscale: ;--tw-hue-rotate: ;--tw-invert: ;--tw-saturate: ;--tw-sepia: ;--tw-drop-shadow: ;--tw-backdrop-blur: ;--tw-backdrop-brightness: ;--tw-backdrop-contrast: ;--tw-backdrop-grayscale: ;--tw-backdrop-hue-rotate: ;--tw-backdrop-invert: ;--tw-backdrop-opacity: ;--tw-backdrop-saturate: ;--tw-backdrop-sepia: ;padding-left:0.5rem;margin-top:1.5rem;margin-bottom:0.75rem'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>The force of the music and voices matches the intensity of the vibrations delivered through the shirt, so faint singing creates light tapping near the clavicle while the bass drum is a strong, rhythmic pounding on the lower back.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#333335;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:-.25in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3;border:none;padding:0in;box-sizing: border-box;--tw-border-spacing-x: 0;--tw-border-spacing-y: 0;--tw-translate-x: 0;--tw-translate-y: 0;--tw-rotate: 0;--tw-skew-x: 0;--tw-skew-y: 0;--tw-scale-x: 1;--tw-scale-y: 1;--tw-pan-x: ;--tw-pan-y: ;--tw-pinch-zoom: ;--tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity;--tw-ordinal: ;--tw-slashed-zero: ;--tw-numeric-figure: ;--tw-numeric-spacing: ;--tw-numeric-fraction: ;--tw-ring-inset: ;--tw-ring-offset-width: 0px;--tw-ring-offset-color: #fff;--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5);--tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent;--tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent;--tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent;--tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 transparent;--tw-blur: ;--tw-brightness: ;--tw-contrast: ;--tw-grayscale: ;--tw-hue-rotate: ;--tw-invert: ;--tw-saturate: ;--tw-sepia: ;--tw-drop-shadow: ;--tw-backdrop-blur: ;--tw-backdrop-brightness: ;--tw-backdrop-contrast: ;--tw-backdrop-grayscale: ;--tw-backdrop-hue-rotate: ;--tw-backdrop-invert: ;--tw-backdrop-opacity: ;--tw-backdrop-saturate: ;--tw-backdrop-sepia: ;padding-left:0.5rem;margin-top:1.5rem'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>"People can feel melody, countermelody, the different rhythms that you naturally have in classical music," Lyric's Brad Dunn said at a press conference last week.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333335'><img border=0 width=2000 height=1627 style='width:20.8333in;height:16.95in' id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D9F38A.D62D4DF0" alt="Dark blue and bright blue shirts on hangers on a clothing rack."></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333335'>Lyric Opera's SoundShirts. Photo: Carrie Shepherd/Axios<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p style='border:none;padding:0in'><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333335;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>What they're saying: </span></strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333335'>Rachel Arfa from the Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities is the city's first deaf commissioner. She consulted with Lyric on the SoundShirt, which she first tested during a performance of "West Side Story." She said it enhanced the experience by giving her "tactile access to the volume."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-right:0in'><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#333335;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4;border:none;padding:0in;box-sizing: border-box;--tw-border-spacing-x: 0;--tw-border-spacing-y: 0;--tw-translate-x: 0;--tw-translate-y: 0;--tw-rotate: 0;--tw-skew-x: 0;--tw-skew-y: 0;--tw-scale-x: 1;--tw-scale-y: 1;--tw-pan-x: ;--tw-pan-y: ;--tw-pinch-zoom: ;--tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity;--tw-ordinal: ;--tw-slashed-zero: ;--tw-numeric-figure: ;--tw-numeric-spacing: ;--tw-numeric-fraction: ;--tw-ring-inset: ;--tw-ring-offset-width: 0px;--tw-ring-offset-color: #fff;--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5);--tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent;--tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent;--tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent;--tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 transparent;--tw-blur: ;--tw-brightness: ;--tw-contrast: ;--tw-grayscale: ;--tw-hue-rotate: ;--tw-invert: ;--tw-saturate: ;--tw-sepia: ;--tw-drop-shadow: ;--tw-backdrop-blur: ;--tw-backdrop-brightness: ;--tw-backdrop-contrast: ;--tw-backdrop-grayscale: ;--tw-backdrop-hue-rotate: ;--tw-backdrop-invert: ;--tw-backdrop-opacity: ;--tw-backdrop-saturate: ;--tw-backdrop-sepia: ;padding-left:0.5rem;margin-top:1.5rem'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif'>"When I watch a play or a performance, I look for cues that the scene is about to change, for example, the lighting may change, or you can tell the actor is getting ready to walk on," Arfa says. "[With the SoundShirt] I was able to actually hear the music that was helping to cue them."<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333335;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p style='border:none;padding:0in;box-sizing: border-box;--tw-border-spacing-x: 0;--tw-border-spacing-y: 0;--tw-translate-x: 0;--tw-translate-y: 0;--tw-rotate: 0;--tw-skew-x: 0;--tw-skew-y: 0;--tw-scale-x: 1;--tw-scale-y: 1;--tw-pan-x: ;--tw-pan-y: ;--tw-pinch-zoom: ;--tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity;--tw-ordinal: ;--tw-slashed-zero: ;--tw-numeric-figure: ;--tw-numeric-spacing: ;--tw-numeric-fraction: ;--tw-ring-inset: ;--tw-ring-offset-width: 0px;--tw-ring-offset-color: #fff;--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5);--tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent;--tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent;--tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent;--tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 transparent;--tw-blur: ;--tw-brightness: ;--tw-contrast: ;--tw-grayscale: ;--tw-hue-rotate: ;--tw-invert: ;--tw-saturate: ;--tw-sepia: ;--tw-drop-shadow: ;--tw-backdrop-blur: ;--tw-backdrop-brightness: ;--tw-backdrop-contrast: ;--tw-backdrop-grayscale: ;--tw-backdrop-hue-rotate: ;--tw-backdrop-invert: ;--tw-backdrop-opacity: ;--tw-backdrop-saturate: ;--tw-backdrop-sepia: ;margin:1.5rem 0px;overflow-wrap: break-word;font-size:1.125rem;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><strong><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333335;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Details: </span></strong><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333335'>The SoundShirt, created by London-based wearable tech fashion brand <a href="https://cutecircuit.com/" target="_blank"><span style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>CuteCircuit</span></a>, costs about $1,500.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-right:0in'><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#333335;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:-.25in;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo5;border:none;padding:0in;box-sizing: border-box;--tw-border-spacing-x: 0;--tw-border-spacing-y: 0;--tw-translate-x: 0;--tw-translate-y: 0;--tw-rotate: 0;--tw-skew-x: 0;--tw-skew-y: 0;--tw-scale-x: 1;--tw-scale-y: 1;--tw-pan-x: ;--tw-pan-y: ;--tw-pinch-zoom: ;--tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity;--tw-ordinal: ;--tw-slashed-zero: ;--tw-numeric-figure: ;--tw-numeric-spacing: ;--tw-numeric-fraction: ;--tw-ring-inset: ;--tw-ring-offset-width: 0px;--tw-ring-offset-color: #fff;--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5);--tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent;--tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent;--tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent;--tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 transparent;--tw-blur: ;--tw-brightness: ;--tw-contrast: ;--tw-grayscale: ;--tw-hue-rotate: ;--tw-invert: ;--tw-saturate: ;--tw-sepia: ;--tw-drop-shadow: ;--tw-backdrop-blur: ;--tw-backdrop-brightness: ;--tw-backdrop-contrast: ;--tw-backdrop-grayscale: ;--tw-backdrop-hue-rotate: ;--tw-backdrop-invert: ;--tw-backdrop-opacity: ;--tw-backdrop-saturate: ;--tw-backdrop-sepia: ;padding-left:0.5rem;margin-top:1.5rem'><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif'>Lyric has 10 medium and large shirts, and tickets for SoundShirt performances are $20. Reservations will be required.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul></div><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p style='border:none;padding:0in;box-sizing: border-box;--tw-border-spacing-x: 0;--tw-border-spacing-y: 0;--tw-translate-x: 0;--tw-translate-y: 0;--tw-rotate: 0;--tw-skew-x: 0;--tw-skew-y: 0;--tw-scale-x: 1;--tw-scale-y: 1;--tw-pan-x: ;--tw-pan-y: ;--tw-pinch-zoom: ;--tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity;--tw-ordinal: ;--tw-slashed-zero: ;--tw-numeric-figure: ;--tw-numeric-spacing: ;--tw-numeric-fraction: ;--tw-ring-inset: ;--tw-ring-offset-width: 0px;--tw-ring-offset-color: #fff;--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5);--tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent;--tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent;--tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent;--tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 transparent;--tw-blur: ;--tw-brightness: ;--tw-contrast: ;--tw-grayscale: ;--tw-hue-rotate: ;--tw-invert: ;--tw-saturate: ;--tw-sepia: ;--tw-drop-shadow: ;--tw-backdrop-blur: ;--tw-backdrop-brightness: ;--tw-backdrop-contrast: ;--tw-backdrop-grayscale: ;--tw-backdrop-hue-rotate: ;--tw-backdrop-invert: ;--tw-backdrop-opacity: ;--tw-backdrop-saturate: ;--tw-backdrop-sepia: ;margin:1.5rem 0px 0px;overflow-wrap: break-word;font-size:1.125rem;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-thickness: initial;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><strong><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333335;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>What we're watching: </span></strong><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333335'>Lyric has been investing in other efforts to improve the theater's accessibility — including audio-described performances, program books in Braille and large print, and American Sign Language interpretations of English performances.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>