In all seriousness, disabled people find amazing ways to indulge in their hobbies despite their limitations. I knew a collector of animated cartoons who was blind. He had an amazing collection and was was very passionate about toons, especially pre-code and now-banned titles.
Thank you Ray for taking this topic seriously and replying with a fully articulated answer. No joke, there are many people who have hearing loss who enjoying going to music venues, concerts, theater and what not and still get much pleasure from doing so.
A bit off-topic, there's a Broadway musical revival in the works that has been specifically designed to be deaf-friendly, with signing actors and so forth. Not the first one, either. Pretty cool. http://www.springawakeningthemusical.com/about-the-show/
Again, you jump the gun... though I made light of the topic, it wasn't intended as a joke.
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Your actions and your explanations of same are very much at odds with each other.
Dude... whatever. Seriously, you pretty much have single-handedly ruined the tone of this post with your illusions as to my original intent of inquiry. Congrats to you.