Meet Krysta Rodriguez, aka Halston's Liza Minnelli
Krysta Rodriguez Is the Perfect Choice to Play Liza Minnelli in Netflix's Halston
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In 2015, Rodriguez co-starred as Ilse in a unique production of the musical Spring Awakening. Produced by Los Angeles's Deaf West Theatre (then transferring to Broadway), the production was bilingual in American Sign Language and English, with several deaf and hard-of-hearing performers alongside hearing cast members. To perform, all the cast members not familiar with ASL had to learn, including Rodriguez.
"I did not know a stitch of sign language so at first it was I had to put the signs to the words and learn them as choreography," she told The Sign Language Company. "But then I started to learn what the words were."