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

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

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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#2

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

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

English speak you does?

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#3

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

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

I guess not^

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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

#4

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

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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#5

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

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

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

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

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

Ron Howard in Music Man

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

#10

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

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' "

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#11

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

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

Charles Nelson Reilly had a lisp.

#12

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

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

Ellen Greene

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#13

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

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

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

#14

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

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

I'm fairly certain Sarah Paulson has a lisp.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Absolutely.

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

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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#20

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

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

"Ron Howard in Music Man"

Or the Broadway original, Eddie Hodges.

#21

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

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

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

#22

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

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

I love Ellen Greene

#23

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

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.

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

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.

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#25

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

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