Broadway names pronunciation- Page 5

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 10/3/05 at 8:49am

I hope Marquise was kidding...

Esparza is really easy, WRQ. It's EXACTLY as it looks.

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 10/3/05 at 11:03am

No I know Em, for some odd reason when I saw the name I decided it was actually spelled Esperaza, leading to my inocrrect pronunciation, but trust me, I know now.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 10/3/05 at 11:51am

Broadway_Baby, it's like hair-red-ia.

[WickedGeek28]

Posted: 12/27/05 at 7:28pm

I get annoyed when people say Eye-dina Menzel.

I'm from LI and attended school with a cousin of hers and he always pronounces like that, so who knows?

[Hoof]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 12:08am

Ah, I remember this thread.

Question about character names: how do you pronounce "Amneris"? Hit me with the Egyptian!

[iliketheater]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 1:44am

am-near-ez (ez like ezra)

and someone help me with this....
*Lillias* White

[jimmirae]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 1:48am

MIZZ-RAH-HEE! (LOL!)

[Aigoo]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 1:59am

Hmm..I always just said Orfeh. "Feh" as in "keg" sound.

Ana Gasteyer is sort of...Ah-nah. So the a's make the same vowel sound instead of A (as in ant)-na.

I'm also wondering about Patti. I've always said Pone (bone)...I've never heard Lu-Pon.

[Copeman63]

Posted: 12/28/05 at 4:19am

JO-MA-HO-TA
Joe Machota

[blaxx]

Posted: 5/15/06 at 8:02pm

Been thinking of a few more lately...

Lupone
Matthew Cavenaugh
Lunt-Fontanne
Schoenfeld

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 5/15/06 at 8:09pm

Lupone? Seriously?

[allofmylife]

Posted: 5/15/06 at 8:15pm

A friend asked me how to pronounce Sarah Uriarte Berry. I said the easiest way was to get your lips flapping and keep gping. Sar-a-ur-i-art-eh-ber-ry. In fact, it's fun as one word.

[meggsison]

Posted: 5/15/06 at 8:37pm

I pronounce Lachiusa LA CHEE USA. And LaChanze is LA CHANZ.

FYI: LuPone is....LOO PONE.

Remember when Idina Menzel's name was the hardest thing? Everyone was like, EYE DEE NUH MEN ZIL.

It was quite scary, actually.

[Yero]

Posted: 5/15/06 at 8:40pm

Lupone- Loo-pone, exactly how it looks
Matthew Cavenaugh- Cav-en-aw, I think
Lunt-Fontanne- Lunt (dur) Fontaine, long a (I believe)
Schoenfeld- Not too sure, but I believe it is: Show-en-feld

I've got one..
Linda Eder... is it Eeder or Edder?

[blaxx]

Posted: 5/15/06 at 9:00pm

Yes, Lizzie, for real.

Some people pronounce the "eh" at the end of Lupon - "eh",
and some don't that's why I asked.

[WickedGeek28]

Posted: 5/15/06 at 9:11pm

"Did you ever take advanced algebra and have to learn Pascal's triangle? That's how I figured it out. "

Uhhh, I hated learning that. Thinking of Broadway and Adam made the class much easier, at least it occupied my mind.

[ihearttheatre]

Posted: 5/15/06 at 9:15pm

I think Pascal's triangle is the only thing I remember from Algebra 2. heh

[FORTUNEKITTY]

Posted: 5/20/06 at 9:04pm

It`s Eder. E like egg. Remember her commenting that Ed McMahon mispronounced it through most of StarSearch. She also introduces herself on Animal Planets "Trailmix" show of which she hosted.

[dirty rotten guy]

Posted: 5/20/06 at 9:15pm

This thread reminds me of when I was at the stagedoor of Threepenny. There was this obnoxious fat man who was there and he was talking to these two women from some Eurpoean country. Whenever they would say Nellie McKay they pronounced it just as it is seplled and he kept correcting them, says that it was pronounced Mc Kai. I understand that it is good to help out people but he was being very arrogant and it was quite annoying.

[mijofly19]

Posted: 5/20/06 at 9:22pm

One that's been bothering me for a while:

Beau Gravitte

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 5/20/06 at 9:23pm

Bo Grav-ette

[zoran912]

Posted: 5/20/06 at 11:22pm

Nellie McKai?

So...not "Cay," but "KAEE"?

How is it pronounced?

[little_sally]

Posted: 5/21/06 at 12:08am

McKay--it's pronounced Mc-Eye.

[zoran912]

Posted: 5/21/06 at 2:34am

That seems to be more a difference in dialect/accent than an actual difference in pronunciation. I'm not one to argue though. It's her name, not mine.

[TonyaFanatic]

Posted: 5/21/06 at 3:37am

it's LIL-E-US for whoever asked about my homegirl. alot of people (like me for years) said LIL-EYE-US.