Broadway names pronunciation- Page 3

[another sloe eyed vamp]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 4:29pm

What's the right way to pronounce Guettel?

[GovernorSlaton]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 4:40pm

GEH-tel. Rhymes with 'metal' or 'shtetl'.
Updated On: 9/25/05 at 04:40 PM

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 4:40pm

Guettel rhymes with "kettle."

[Kevo711]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 4:41pm

I'm sure most people know, but Sara Ramirez is pronouced Sada... take the r and change it to a d

[ikmbway]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 4:50pm

Kevo I didn't know that. I always thought it was Sara pronounced as is. I feel bad for her probably being called Sara (the way it looks prounounciation) her whole life by many.

[TheatreManiac]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 4:55pm

I was pronouncing "Maya" (as in Days) as "My-ah" until I heard her say it for herself on Rosie, "MAY-ah Days". Interesting...

Nice thread... oh so very helpful. Makes me wanna go through my Playbills and see what I've been saying wrong forever... but I won't!

:)

[BWayBoy88]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 5:02pm

It's Sarah Your-ee-ar-tee Berry (Like the fruit)

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 5:02pm

The trouble is a lot of these names have been Anglo-ized. (Some of that happened when relatives came over through Ellis Island, etc.) So there is an "acceptable" American-ized way to say a name, and then there's the original ethnic pronunciation. Since "correct" is in the eye of the beholder (or in this case, the actual person with the name), I usually go by the way THEY have chosen to pronounce it... whether or not it's viewed as the correct way.

i.e., Tartaglia, d'Amboise, Sara, Salonga, etc.

[Liz_Bennet]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 6:39pm

David Mamet's last name is, somewhat confusingly, Mah-MIT, not MAH-may like years of French would lead me to believe.

Posted: 9/25/05 at 6:58pm

Sherie Rene Scott- is Rene pronounced Renee but without the extra "e"?

Also the girl who played Baby June in the Gypsy revival with Bernadette Peters, her name was Heather Tepe. Does anyone know how to pronounce her last name?

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 7:10pm

Rene and Renee are the same...just Renee is the female form.

[Menken Fan]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 8:56pm

I used to never know how to pronounce my favorite performer's name, Debbie Gravitte. I would alternate between "Gra-VEETE" and "GRA-vee-tay", until I found out it was the most non-exotic pronunciation, "GRA-vit".

[littlewow]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 9:18pm

Michael John says La-kee-oo-sa. all the time.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 9:46pm

Re: Anglicized names.

True, true. But I have a Filipino news broadcast where the host pronounced her name Sah-lon-ga, with the "o" rhyming with "show." Tagalog has pretty straight forward pronunciation.

[JayKid]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 9:48pm

How do you pronounce Brian D'Arcy??

da arcy? dee arcy? darcy?

Someone said cheyenne is sheyenne... still confused tho lol.

is it, shey - en? i always just thought of it as chain ee lol. I never really said his name outloud so i dunno... i thought ti was somehtin like that but I'm deinfelty wrong.

Those are the only names i can think of right now that i can't pronounce...

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 9:51pm

Brian D'Arcy = Brian Dar-see

Cheyenne = Shy + Anne

[sassypanz]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 9:55pm

Saycon Sengbloh?? Why do some of y`all say "seng-blah"?

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 10:19pm

acording to IMDB (definately not the be all end all) the correct pronounciation is Zhel-ko Ee-Vah-nek



EDIT:

SPeaking of Saycon, it is Say-shawn right?

Updated On: 9/25/05 at 10:19 PM

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 10:19pm

That's how I've been saying it!

Thanks.

[Liz_Bennet]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 11:07pm

ZONEACE- I only know about Czech pronunciation, but I think IMDB is more or less correct, if a little vague. A Slavic ž (z with a háček- well that's the Czech word for it- it means the consonant is "soft") is close to the English s in treasure or measure. I guess that's pretty much the same as a "zh", but it gives a little context. The j would be silent in this case.

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 11:10pm

i always thought it was Jelko, but figured i was probably wrong.

[Liz_Bennet]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 11:17pm

Sort of halfway between a z and a j, I think...it's hard to transliterate Slavic sounds precisely into English. I will consult my Russian-speaking friends. (My Czech is purely of the tourist variety, and the pronunciation is mostly acquired from listening to the voice announcing the stops on the Prague streetcar. But it beats my Hungarian any day!)

[kelzama]

Posted: 9/26/05 at 11:13am

Zhel-ko Ee-Vah-nek

[Sant]

Posted: 9/26/05 at 11:59am

"PasCAL. Like in French. Not Pascle like circle"

Umm, here's a different one for this... it's an interview with AP and according to this it's PAScal.

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/95303.html

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 9/26/05 at 12:08pm

He pronounces it "pasCAL" in the TOday show video on the blog, so I'm gonna go with him.