Actors With Fake "Stage Voices"- Page 2

[Jordan Catalano]

re: Actors With Fake 'Stage Voices'#25

Posted: 10/8/09 at 5:43pm

"Stephanie J. Block speaks and sings with very distinct, almost harsh, enunciation on stage."

Yeah but that's how she talks off stage, too.

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

re: Actors With Fake 'Stage Voices'#26

Posted: 10/8/09 at 8:08pm

I find Stephanie J Block's voice to be much softer and pleasant off stage.

[GlindatheGood22]

re: Actors With Fake 'Stage Voices'#27

Posted: 10/8/09 at 8:14pm

The voice Kacie Sheik uses for Jeanie in Hair sounds absolutely nothing like her actual speaking voice.

Phylicia Rashad also used a very distinct-sounding voice for Violet Weston, especially when she got angry.

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[SporkGoddess]

re: Actors With Fake 'Stage Voices'#28

Posted: 10/8/09 at 8:19pm

WAIT, WHAT. Colm actually sounds Irish in that video! I AM SO CONFUSED. Why would he speak like Sean Connery onstage?

What's worse is many Valjeans after him copy that mannerism (I think Gary Morris is a good example).

Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

re: Actors With Fake 'Stage Voices'#29

Posted: 10/8/09 at 8:28pm

I KNOW. I was so astonished to hear how Colm Wilkinson actually talks. I own like different recordings with him, and he does the same bizarre 'stage voice' for everything... (two Les Mis, one Phantom, one Evita). I think maybe he thinks that his stage voice sounds like a typical Englishman or something. 0_0

In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy

[orangeskittles]

re: Actors With Fake 'Stage Voices'#30

Posted: 10/8/09 at 8:45pm

fashionguru, I just think it's weird considering their personal lives that Ann Reinking would intentionally copy Gwen Verdon's voice.

Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how

[jonartdesigns]

re: Actors With Fake 'Stage Voices'#31

Posted: 10/8/09 at 8:56pm

Marc Kudish is a lot quieter in real life than in character

"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel

[little_sally]

re: Actors With Fake 'Stage Voices'#32

Posted: 10/8/09 at 9:07pm

I love the voice Kacie Sheik uses on stage.

James Barbour uses a bizarre sort of stage voice.

A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

re: Actors With Fake 'Stage Voices'#33

Posted: 10/8/09 at 9:34pm

I agree about James Barbour-- his stage voice is hilariously grandiose. But his real voice sounds a lot more like his stage voice than most actors who do the 'big bad melodramatic deep voice.' He does exaggerate it, but not as much as I would have expected.

In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy

[Sleeper2]

re: Actors With Fake 'Stage Voices'#34

Posted: 10/20/09 at 10:22pm

Matt Cavenaugh has the same accent on-stage as off.

Thanks for playing.