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Broadway names pronunciation
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re: Broadway names pronunciation#50
Posted: 9/25/05 at 4:29pmWhat's the right way to pronounce Guettel?
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/04
re: Broadway names pronunciation#51
Posted: 9/25/05 at 4:40pm
GEH-tel. Rhymes with 'metal' or 'shtetl'.
Updated On: 9/25/05 at 04:40 PM
re: Broadway names pronunciation#53
Posted: 9/25/05 at 4:41pmI'm sure most people know, but Sara Ramirez is pronouced Sada... take the r and change it to a d
re: Broadway names pronunciation#54
Posted: 9/25/05 at 4:50pmKevo 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.
Understudy Joined: 3/12/05
re: Broadway names pronunciation#55
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!
:)
re: Broadway names pronunciation#56
Posted: 9/25/05 at 5:02pmIt's Sarah Your-ee-ar-tee Berry (Like the fruit)
re: Broadway names pronunciation#57
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.
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re: Broadway names pronunciation#58
Posted: 9/25/05 at 6:39pmDavid Mamet's last name is, somewhat confusingly, Mah-MIT, not MAH-may like years of French would lead me to believe.
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re: Broadway names pronunciation#59
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?
re: Broadway names pronunciation#60
Posted: 9/25/05 at 7:10pmRene and Renee are the same...just Renee is the female form.
re: Broadway names pronunciation#61
Posted: 9/25/05 at 8:56pmI 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".
re: Broadway names pronunciation#62
Posted: 9/25/05 at 9:18pmMichael John says La-kee-oo-sa. all the time.
re: Broadway names pronunciation#63
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.
re: Broadway names pronunciation#64
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...
re: Broadway names pronunciation#65
Posted: 9/25/05 at 9:51pm
Brian D'Arcy = Brian Dar-see
Cheyenne = Shy + Anne
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re: Broadway names pronunciation#66
Posted: 9/25/05 at 9:55pmSaycon Sengbloh?? Why do some of y`all say "seng-blah"?
re: Broadway names pronunciation#67
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?
re: Broadway names pronunciation#68
Posted: 9/25/05 at 10:19pm
That's how I've been saying it!
Thanks.
re: Broadway names pronunciation#69
Posted: 9/25/05 at 11:07pmZONEACE- 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.
re: Broadway names pronunciation#70
Posted: 9/25/05 at 11:10pmi always thought it was Jelko, but figured i was probably wrong.
re: Broadway names pronunciation#71
Posted: 9/25/05 at 11:17pmSort 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!)
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re: Broadway names pronunciation#73
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
re: Broadway names pronunciation#74
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.
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