Boston Dialect Paper...HELP!

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Boston Dialect Paper...HELP!

Posted: 3/31/08 at 6:11pm

Hey ALL!

I am writing my term paper, and have chosen to write on the south Boston dialect. I need to find two good, and two bad examples of the use of this dialect.

What broadway performers have been succesful/unsuccesful with this dialect onstage in your opinion?

25 shows in 14 days folks, anything is possible!

re: Boston Dialect Paper...HELP!

Posted: 3/31/08 at 6:22pm

Does it have to be Broadway? Because the accents in Mystic River were terrible.

Oh, and I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop.

re: Boston Dialect Paper...HELP!

Posted: 3/31/08 at 6:39pm

I am looking for Broadway, or stage performances

I have a few chosen already from movies/tv

:)

25 shows in 14 days folks, anything is possible!

re: Boston Dialect Paper...HELP!

Posted: 3/31/08 at 7:09pm

I wasn't all too impressed with David Hyde Pierce's in "Curtains"...but he won the Tony, so what do I know?

"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck

re: Boston Dialect Paper...HELP!

Posted: 3/31/08 at 7:54pm

Some of Legally Blonde takes place in Boston...

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

re: Boston Dialect Paper...HELP!

Posted: 3/31/08 at 8:15pm

yeah but there's no real South Boston in that.

koolaid I can't think of any musicals that incorpate much of Boston. I guess if I really thought hard, something might come up.

as a native of Boston, I do know that you could find a select number of plays that incorporate the accents.

re: Boston Dialect Paper...HELP!

Posted: 3/31/08 at 8:45pm

I think the accents in The Departed and Good Will Hunting are both good examples. I don't think there are as many play options as there are film options.

re: Boston Dialect Paper...HELP!

Posted: 3/31/08 at 8:50pm

ya this has been my problem

I have lots of film examples, but I need stage examples

Curtains, is the one show I have been using, I thought his accent was good, although it turned on and off, so when it was on it was good!

thanks for all the help so far, anymore would be great!

25 shows in 14 days folks, anything is possible!

re: Boston Dialect Paper...HELP!

Posted: 3/31/08 at 9:55pm

I don't know if you have to use an actor, but there is one play that uses South Boston accents and gives the phoenetically so the actors can speak it correctly. The title is escaping me, but the title has South Boston in it.

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Posted: 3/31/08 at 11:34pm

almostxfamous: You're probably thinking of David Lindsay-Abaire's How We Talk in South Boston.

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Posted: 3/31/08 at 11:41pm

I have lots of film examples, but I need stage examples

I'm probably showing my naivete about this, but why do you need stage examples? (Especially if you hadn't witnessed them yourself, and are relying on possibly inaccurate secondhand memories.)

And, since stage performances are ephemeral, why should the professor think you're not just making up those examples?

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Posted: 3/31/08 at 11:47pm

"I think the accents in The Departed and Good Will Hunting are both good examples."

I thought Matt Damon had the fakest sounding accent in The Departed....and he's from Cambridge.

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re: Boston Dialect Paper...HELP!

Posted: 4/1/08 at 12:19am

I know you're not looking for movie examples, but the "lower-class" Gone Baby Gone accents were supposedly pretty accurate.

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Posted: 4/1/08 at 2:48am

I don't neccesarily need to critique all the examples

i just need exampled of when it was used on stage...

and I think a drama prof may know when the dialect was used....

25 shows in 14 days folks, anything is possible!

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