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Broadway names pronunciation
#100re: Broadway names pronunciation
Posted: 10/3/05 at 8:49am
I hope Marquise was kidding...
Esparza is really easy, WRQ. It's EXACTLY as it looks.
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#101re: Broadway names pronunciation
Posted: 10/3/05 at 11:03amNo 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.
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#102re: Broadway names pronunciation
Posted: 10/3/05 at 11:51amBroadway_Baby, it's like hair-red-ia.
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how
Wanting life but never knowing how
#103re: Broadway names pronunciation
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?
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Hoof
Featured Actor Joined: 5/14/05
#104re: Broadway names pronunciation
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
Broadway Star Joined: 12/10/05
#105re: Broadway names pronunciation
Posted: 12/28/05 at 1:44am
am-near-ez (ez like ezra)
and someone help me with this....
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#106re: Broadway names pronunciation
Posted: 12/28/05 at 1:48amMIZZ-RAH-HEE! (LOL!)
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#107re: Broadway names pronunciation
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.
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#108re: Broadway names pronunciation
Posted: 12/28/05 at 4:19am
JO-MA-HO-TA
Joe Machota
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blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#109re: Broadway names pronunciation
Posted: 5/15/06 at 8:02pm
Been thinking of a few more lately...
Lupone
Matthew Cavenaugh
Lunt-Fontanne
Schoenfeld
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#110re: Broadway names pronunciation
Posted: 5/15/06 at 8:09pmLupone? Seriously?
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#111re: Broadway names pronunciation
Posted: 5/15/06 at 8:15pmA 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.
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Broadway Star Joined: 7/4/05
#112re: Broadway names pronunciation
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.
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Yero
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/29/06
#113re: Broadway names pronunciation
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?
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blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#114re: Broadway names pronunciation
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.
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#115re: Broadway names pronunciation
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.
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
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Broadway Legend Joined: 10/12/05
#116re: Broadway names pronunciation
Posted: 5/15/06 at 9:15pmI think Pascal's triangle is the only thing I remember from Algebra 2. heh
FORTUNEKITTY
Swing Joined: 4/13/05
#117re: Broadway names pronunciation
Posted: 5/20/06 at 9:04pmIt`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.
#118re: Broadway names pronunciation
Posted: 5/20/06 at 9:15pmThis 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.
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mijofly19
Broadway Star Joined: 6/14/05
#119re: Broadway names pronunciation
Posted: 5/20/06 at 9:22pm
One that's been bothering me for a while:
Beau Gravitte
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Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#121re: Broadway names pronunciation
Posted: 5/20/06 at 11:22pm
Nellie McKai?
So...not "Cay," but "KAEE"?
How is it pronounced?
#122re: Broadway names pronunciation
Posted: 5/21/06 at 12:08amMcKay--it's pronounced Mc-Eye.
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#123re: Broadway names pronunciation
Posted: 5/21/06 at 2:34amThat 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
Broadway Star Joined: 12/29/04
#124re: Broadway names pronunciation
Posted: 5/21/06 at 3:37amit's LIL-E-US for whoever asked about my homegirl. alot of people (like me for years) said LIL-EYE-US.
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