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#101

re: 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.

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#102

re: Broadway names pronunciation

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.

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#103

re: Broadway names pronunciation

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

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

Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how

#104

re: 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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#105

re: 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!

#106

re: 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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#107

re: Broadway names pronunciation

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

MIZZ-RAH-HEE! (LOL!)

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#108

re: 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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#109

re: Broadway names pronunciation

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

JO-MA-HO-TA
Joe Machota

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#110

re: 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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#111

re: Broadway names pronunciation

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

Lupone? Seriously?

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#112

re: Broadway names pronunciation

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.

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#113

re: 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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#114

re: 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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#115

re: 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.

Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE

#116

re: 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."
To Kill A Mockingbird

#117

re: Broadway names pronunciation

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

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

#118

re: Broadway names pronunciation

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.

#119

re: Broadway names pronunciation

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.

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#120

re: Broadway names pronunciation

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

One that's been bothering me for a while:

Beau Gravitte

#121

re: Broadway names pronunciation

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

Bo Grav-ette

#122

re: Broadway names pronunciation

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

Nellie McKai?

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

How is it pronounced?

#123

re: Broadway names pronunciation

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

McKay--it's pronounced Mc-Eye.

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#124

re: Broadway names pronunciation

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.

#125

re: Broadway names pronunciation

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.

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