Real Actors Do Spit
Real Actors Do Spit
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#0Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 4:59pm
It may not be well-known, but an actor properly projecting their voice does "spray" a lot in performance.
These are for fully projected voices without mics, though mic'd actors who are projecting may "spray" as well.
What great stage actor, On or Off Broadway, have you observed to spray up a storm?
Updated On: 8/13/06 at 04:59 PM
Yero
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/29/06
#1re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 5:01pmMichael Cerveris has been said to give many people in the front row complimentary showers...
"I have this mental image of Patti barreling down the street and pushing tourists out of her way." -colleen_lee
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#2re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 5:02pm
Good for him! I have even more respect for the man's talent!
Who else?
jjoey076
Stand-by Joined: 8/13/06
#3re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 5:09pmStephen Lynch does it all the time in The Wedding Singer. He does it especially in "Wedding Day", "Somebody Kill Me" and "Casualty of Love"
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
queendork
Understudy Joined: 6/28/06
#6re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 5:15pm
"Michael Cerveris has been said to give many people in the front row complimentary showers..."
As does Tim Howar.
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#7re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 5:16pm
I'll bet that Ralph Fiennes (Rafe Fines) sends his spittle out a yard!
It's gross. It's disgusting.
It's the price we pay for ART!
What other great actor spits?
Updated On: 8/13/06 at 05:16 PM
#8re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 5:19pmIsn't Hugh Panaro also known for this?
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#9re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 5:21pm
"Isn't Hugh Panaro also known for this?"
From what I hear,yes.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#10re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 5:22pmIf you see Brianne O Brynne close up, bring rain gear
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nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#11re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 5:22pm
Ah, Hugh, the Lestat Phantom, or Phantom Lestat as the case may be now.
One has to wonder whether every Phantom there ever was (for they are the best of the best) SPAT?
Updated On: 8/13/06 at 05:22 PM
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#12re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 5:24pm
The luck of the Irish!
Known for their blarney and fine spit!
What other great actor spits?
jjoey076
Stand-by Joined: 8/13/06
#13re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 5:27pmTim Howar doesn't spit so much anymore. I saw him a few days ago, and he was fine.
thevolleyballer
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#14re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 5:34pm
"It may not be well-known, but an actor properly projecting their voice does "spray" a lot in performance."
I completely disagree. Having seen theatre all my life, that is definitely not the case. Great actors should be able to project and enunciate so well that they in fact don't spray the audience. Spitting is a sign of bad tongue-teeth movements and an excess of saliva.
On with the discussion. :)
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#15re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 5:35pm
We're talkin' big name actor spittle here.
Sprucely saliva glands.
Who else can proudly declame their spit?
#16re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 5:37pmAlan Cumming did in Threepenny
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jsrocks
Broadway Star Joined: 2/27/06
#18re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 5:42pm
Yeah Michael. 
During the Tony performance you could clearly see him spraying his spit all over the stage.
"Michael's got a head like a Ping Pong Ball"
-The Cast of Sweeney-
CurtainUp
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/9/04
#19re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 5:42pmDouglass Sills did in "Little Shop"...ironically, the end of his main song he says "Now, Spit!" I love him.
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Yero
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/29/06
#20re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 5:43pmOkay, I'm not trying to be rude, or anything, but I've noticed something in many threads you've started, nomdeplume. I like your threads, a lot of them are very funny and I like reading them, but your constant asking for more examples is a little annoying. Like I said, I'm not trying to be rude and don't take it personal, it's just an observation that gets a little annoying sometimes.
"I have this mental image of Patti barreling down the street and pushing tourists out of her way." -colleen_lee
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#22re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 5:45pm
I'd expect no less of Cumming!
He'd spray with the best of them, master spit!
Pay no attention to what fools some mortals be, unknowledgeable on the spray of the well-trod boards!
What other actor is a grand champion spitter of the stage?
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#23re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 5:48pm
Like I said in the other thread, Ben Magnuson is more of a spitter than Cerveris. His spit jumps through the air; I've never known spit was capable of that. It's quite impressive.
John Lithgow was the premiere spitter at DRS.
And Mooney and I got a lovely shower of Michael Arden saliva in DC. That's where we met and bonded 
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jimnysf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
#24re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 5:49pm
Hugh Jackman got me wet.
Craig Bierko got me wet in certain scenes of "Thou Shalt Not".
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nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#25re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 5:53pm
A lotta Tony-winning spit here.
And wrq, the idea of acrobatic spit from this Ben Magnuson is positively astounding! Somersaults, flips, great arcs, spirals?
Acrobatic spit?
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