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

[bundy5000]

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.

[LizzieCurry]

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

English speak you does?

[bundy5000]

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

I guess not^

[B3TA07]

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

[regnad kcin]

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

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

[orangeskittles]

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

Ron Howard in Music Man

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

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.

[bundy5000]

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

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

[LePetiteFromage]

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

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

[Dollypop]

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' "

[jv92]

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

Charles Nelson Reilly had a lisp.

[Gothampc]

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

Ellen Greene

[jake6970]

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

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

[JeaniusIsMe]

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

I'm fairly certain Sarah Paulson has a lisp.

[misto625]

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.

[dancnqn5]

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]

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

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

[broadway86]

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

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

Absolutely.

[WOSQ]

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.

[sparrman]

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

"Ron Howard in Music Man"

Or the Broadway original, Eddie Hodges.

[broadwayjules]

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

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

[Scott Briefer]

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

I love Ellen Greene

[ChicagoPLAYer]

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]

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.

[Elke]

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