Any history of actors naturally or for "in character" has a lisp?

[bundy5000]

Any history of actors naturally or for "in character" has a lisp?#1

Posted: 11/17/08 at 7:23pm

Just wondering. I have no idea where the idea popped into my head. But curiosity has yet to been proven to kill the cat.

I think if it has occurred, it could either make you or break you.

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Rose: "Of Course I know, I Watch Fox News"
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December 5th- Hamilton, On Your Feet
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[LizzieCurry]

re: Any history of actors naturally or for 'in character' has a lisp?#2

Posted: 11/17/08 at 7:25pm

English speak you does?

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[bundy5000]

re: Any history of actors naturally or for 'in character' has a lisp?#2

Posted: 11/17/08 at 7:27pm

I guess not^

Herbie: "Honey, Don't you know there's a depression?"
Rose: "Of Course I know, I Watch Fox News"
-(modified)Gypsy
Broadway Schedule
December 5th- Hamilton, On Your Feet
December 19th- Noises Off, Edith Piaf Concert at Town Hall

[B3TA07]

re: Any history of actors naturally or for 'in character' has a lisp?#3

Posted: 11/17/08 at 7:29pm

Kerry Ellis has a speech issue with her "S"s. It's really obvious on Wicked In Rock. Unfortunately she's too old to fix it. I didn't notice it for the longest time, until I was listening to it with my friend whose mother is a speech therapist and she has learned everything about speech from her; she noticed and pointed it out. It almost ruined Wicked In Rock for me. Hahaha

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[regnad kcin]

re: Any history of actors naturally or for 'in character' has a lisp?#5

Posted: 11/17/08 at 7:43pm

Sarah Saltzburg and all the other Logainne Schwartzandgrubenierres. For in character.

[orangeskittles]

re: Any history of actors naturally or for 'in character' has a lisp?#6

Posted: 11/17/08 at 7:45pm

Ron Howard in Music Man

Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

re: Any history of actors naturally or for 'in character' has a lisp?#7

Posted: 11/17/08 at 7:48pm

Tim Martin Gleason has a very strong lisp. I've never seen him as Raoul so I don't know if his lisp is as strong onstage. I did notice that Sean Palmer has a sliiight lisp-- it's stronger in person, but he does a pretty good job of covering it up onstage for the most part.

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[bundy5000]

re: Any history of actors naturally or for 'in character' has a lisp?#8

Posted: 11/17/08 at 7:48pm

if the Brady Bunch ever makes it on Broadway, Cindy will require one

Herbie: "Honey, Don't you know there's a depression?"
Rose: "Of Course I know, I Watch Fox News"
-(modified)Gypsy
Broadway Schedule
December 5th- Hamilton, On Your Feet
December 19th- Noises Off, Edith Piaf Concert at Town Hall

[LePetiteFromage]

#9

Posted: 11/17/08 at 7:49pm

Updated On: 5/1/09 at 07:49 PM

[Dollypop]

re: Any history of actors naturally or for 'in character' has a lisp?#10

Posted: 11/17/08 at 7:52pm

Jeremy Irons has a definite lisp, where his "s" sounds come out with a "th".

Jason Danieley has what might be called a "slushy 's' "

"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

[jv92]

re: Any history of actors naturally or for 'in character' has a lisp?#11

Posted: 11/17/08 at 9:21pm

Charles Nelson Reilly had a lisp.

[Gothampc]

re: Any history of actors naturally or for 'in character' has a lisp?#12

Posted: 11/17/08 at 9:50pm

Ellen Greene

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

[jake6970]

re: Any history of actors naturally or for 'in character' has a lisp?#13

Posted: 11/17/08 at 10:03pm

Almost all the Maureens I've seen in Rent seem to have a slight lisp.

[JeaniusIsMe]

re: Any history of actors naturally or for 'in character' has a lisp?#14

Posted: 11/17/08 at 10:58pm

I'm fairly certain Sarah Paulson has a lisp.

[misto625]

re: Any history of actors naturally or for 'in character' has a lisp?#15

Posted: 11/18/08 at 1:04am

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Stephen Lee Anderson in Footloose.

But seriously, why does it matter?? If the original poster wanted to know whether having a lisp would keep her from being on Broadway, the fact that people are naming examples proves otherwise.

Dean: Can I tell you something? Lorraine: That depends on what it is. Dean: I think you're really really pretty. Lorraine: (after a pause) Ok, you can tell me that.

[dancnqn5]

re: Any history of actors naturally or for 'in character' has a lisp?#16

Posted: 11/18/08 at 3:17am

I almost forgot about Stephen Lee Anderson's lisp. It was really distracting. And I usually don't care about those things.

[philcrosby]

re: Any history of actors naturally or for 'in character' has a lisp?#17

Posted: 11/18/08 at 9:25am

Sylvester the Cat had a very successful career, some would say because of his lisp.

[broadway86]

re: Any history of actors naturally or for 'in character' has a lisp?#18

Posted: 11/18/08 at 9:32am

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Stephen Lee Anderson in Footloose.

Absolutely.

[WOSQ]

re: Any history of actors naturally or for 'in character' has a lisp?#19

Posted: 11/18/08 at 10:01am

Amanda Plummer.

Call it a lisp or a speech impediment, but it is there. It is also fake, an affectation. It is constant in all professional situations and who knows about non-professional ones.

Also, in the uproarious Scapino in the 70s, the show that made Jim Dale a star, a dumb blonde character was given a pronounced "lithp". She was expertly played by Constance Forslund who went on to a modest tv career.

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[sparrman]

re: Any history of actors naturally or for 'in character' has a lisp?#20

Posted: 11/18/08 at 10:30am

"Ron Howard in Music Man"

Or the Broadway original, Eddie Hodges.

[broadwayjules]

re: Any history of actors naturally or for 'in character' has a lisp?#20

Posted: 11/18/08 at 1:49pm

Ugh, Debbie Gibson in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat anyone?

[Scott Briefer]

re: Any history of actors naturally or for 'in character' has a lisp?#21

Posted: 11/18/08 at 1:51pm

I love Ellen Greene

[ChicagoPLAYer]

re: Any history of actors naturally or for 'in character' has a lisp?#22

Posted: 11/18/08 at 1:57pm

Jules beat me to it. I was thinking Deborah Gibson.

I thaw her in Thinderella.

"Impossible" should have been titled "Improbable" to make up for her bad lisp.

[TheaterBaby]

re: Any history of actors naturally or for 'in character' has a lisp?#23

Posted: 11/18/08 at 2:02pm

*sigh* I had a lisp as a child. But I was sent to speech therapy at age 4 to correct it.

Debbie and Ellen totally have them.

"It's the little things; the details, that distinguish the Barbra Streisands from the Rosalyn Kinds."~Gilmore Girls~

[Elke]

re: Any history of actors naturally or for 'in character' has a lisp?#24

Posted: 11/18/08 at 2:06pm

Carmen Ghia in The Producers had a lisp... at least when played by Roger Bart, not sure about the other actors