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Best And Worst Fake Accents
Stage Door Sally
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#26re: Best And Worst Fake Accents
Posted: 8/16/09 at 10:08pm
Hugh Laurie is the master.
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#27re: Best And Worst Fake Accents
Posted: 8/16/09 at 10:14pmJosef Brown from the Dirty Dancing tour did a terrible american accent.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/08
#28re: Best And Worst Fake Accents
Posted: 8/16/09 at 10:14pmRaul Esparza, Alan Cumming, and Neil Patrick Harris gave the most perfect German accents you could ask for. Adam Pascal's German accent was brutal to listen to.
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#29re: Best And Worst Fake Accents
Posted: 8/16/09 at 10:21pmIt isn't bad...but, I think Jbara's accent in Billy is SO f****** annoying
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#30re: Best And Worst Fake Accents
Posted: 8/16/09 at 10:38pmI have to second Hank Azaria, his accents are amazing.
#31re: Best And Worst Fake Accents
Posted: 8/16/09 at 11:35pmPatti LuPone in Gypsy =)
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#32re: Best And Worst Fake Accents
Posted: 8/16/09 at 11:41pm
Michael Hayden used a very authentic and convincing northern New England accent in CAROUSEL and even though the Rodgers and Hammerstein score was clearly beyond his vocal ability, his acting was brilliant, possibly the best ever in the role of Billy Bigelow.
On the other hand, Harry Connick Jr used the worst fake Cajun accent I have ever heard in The Pajama Game, even more annoying given the fact that the story tales place in Iowa where the nearest Cajun is about 800 miles away and Connick is from New Orleans where the nearest Cajun is 140 miles away in Lafayette, LA, which accounts for the fact that the accent Connick uses on stage and in real life is as phony as a 3 dollar bill.
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#33re: Best And Worst Fake Accents
Posted: 8/16/09 at 11:45pm
While it is more comical than some of the others previously mentioned, I really enjoy Wesley Taylor's flamboyant German accent in Rock of Ages.
Based on the clips that I have seen, I would also say that Gavin Creel's British accent was pretty good in Mary Poppins.
#34re: Best And Worst Fake Accents
Posted: 8/16/09 at 11:51pmToni Collette is pretty brilliant. You forget she's Australian.
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#35re: Best And Worst Fake Accents
Posted: 8/17/09 at 12:02amHugh Panaro's hilariously WTF "vampire" accent during reviews of Lestat in SF! My friends and I still imitate it.
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#36re: Best And Worst Fake Accents
Posted: 8/17/09 at 12:02amMajority of shows set in the south, the folks have "Gone with the Wind" type accents. I am a South Carolinian (not by choice) and people don't talk like that. Southern drawl, yes.....but not late 1800's drawl.
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#37re: Best And Worst Fake Accents
Posted: 8/17/09 at 12:05am
Alan Cumming in just about anything does a perfect accent. Most people don't even know he is Scottish.
His accents always impress me. I love him in Goldeneye.
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#38re: Best And Worst Fake Accents
Posted: 8/17/09 at 12:24am
Best : Hugh Laurie, Alan Cumming, Toni Collette, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett
Worst : Patti Lupone, half the replacements in Cabaret for the Emcee and Sally.....
Quick question :
Why do people gush over international actors who do a very good American accent but razz most American actors who attempt any accent?
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#39re: Best And Worst Fake Accents
Posted: 8/17/09 at 12:28am^ Probably because it's easier for Americans to tell when an American accent is done badly by a foreign actor. Updated On: 8/17/09 at 12:28 AM
#40re: Best And Worst Fake Accents
Posted: 8/17/09 at 1:09am
Definitely agree with Cumming and Azaria- you can always count on them to have strong accents. With regards to Creel's accent in Poppins, one of my English profs in London was convinced Creel was indeed English, as "no American could pull of a convincing cockney accent."
#42re: Best And Worst Fake Accents
Posted: 8/17/09 at 3:33am
I love it when an American actor puts on an English accent, and Americans go "wow, that's a great English accent!", but English people fall about laughing 'cos even though it may be passable to the masses, there's no fooling a native. :3
That said, this English girl would like to confirm that Gavin Creel in Mary Poppins was flawless.
Worst? Hmm, don't have any at present, although I saw Hamlet again yesterday and rather feel that Horatio was trying to suppress a Welsh accent. He wasn't suppressing it very well, and I wish he'd just let it out. Shakespeare done in regional accents is AMAZING. :3
Oh, wait, I do have a worst. Any time Aiden Gillan is called upon to be American. Saw him in Glengarry Glen Ross, and he was all over the place. The best part was when he got shouty in the second act and let fly a "T'INGS!" instead of "things". There is no hiding his Irishness, and I'm having fun remembering that while I watch The Wire. XD
Updated On: 8/17/09 at 03:33 AM
#44re: Best And Worst Fake Accents
Posted: 8/17/09 at 6:56am
"Gavin Creel's British accent in Mary Poppins and (briefly in) Hair sounds pretty impressive, (though I've only heard his Poppins accent from clips)"
Gavin's accent was excellent. A British friend of mine told me when she saw MP with him as Bert, she listened carefully and didn't hear one slip-up.
#45re: Best And Worst Fake Accents
Posted: 8/17/09 at 8:08amAndrea Burns as Daniela in In The Heights. You don't realize how brilliant it is until you've seen someone else play the role, that girl is hard to replace.
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#46re: Best And Worst Fake Accents
Posted: 8/17/09 at 8:34amSutton Foster gave an awful, inconsistent Swedish accent in Young Frankenstein...
#47re: Best And Worst Fake Accents
Posted: 8/17/09 at 9:35am
Hugh Laurie is the master, I totally agree. :)
Greg Jbara put on a brilliant French accent in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
Peter Gallagher had a terrible British accent for the revival of Noises Off.
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#48re: Best And Worst Fake Accents
Posted: 8/17/09 at 11:49am
I don't watch House, but I've seen enough to know that Hugh Laurie is the master. Toni Collette is also amazing.
I'd like to add Anna Friel (Pushing Daisies, Irish Jam) to the list. Her American accent is so flawless, you forget she's English.
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#49re: Best And Worst Fake Accents
Posted: 8/17/09 at 11:59am
I did not know Anna Friel was English until I saw an interview with her.
I'd like to add Bryan McElroy in Jersey Boys to the worst. HE could not talk without spitting, which was unfourunate for me as I sat in the front row the majority of times I saw him.
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