Broadway names pronunciation- Page 8

[LimelightMike]

re: Broadway names pronunciation#175

Posted: 3/27/08 at 12:24am

Jennifer Damiano - Dam-ee-a-no or Dah-me-ah-no?

Not that she'll hold it against anyone, or anything, but it's "Dam-ee-ah-no

Updated On: 3/27/08 at 12:24 AM

[WickedBoy2]

re: Broadway names pronunciation#176

Posted: 3/27/08 at 12:51am

Thanks Hero!

A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!'' Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'

[blaxx]

re: Broadway names pronunciation#177

Posted: 9/7/08 at 10:45pm

Aaron Tveit

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

[verynewyorkcurious]

re: Broadway names pronunciation#178

Posted: 9/7/08 at 10:50pm

Te-vay-it

[musicaltheater1]

re: Broadway names pronunciation#179

Posted: 9/7/08 at 11:30pm

Lea Salonga is pronounced as:
Leh-yah (not Lee-yah) Sah-long-gah

"I love acting. It is so much more real than life." Oscar Wilde
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley

[defyingonbroadway]

re: Broadway names pronunciation#180

Posted: 9/7/08 at 11:41pm

I used to think Patti LuPone was Patti LuPon(ee) so that it sounded Italian, but then I wised up :)

[thereisnofuture]

re: Broadway names pronunciation#181

Posted: 9/8/08 at 12:35am

Adam Chanler-Berat

Andy Mientus

[broadway_show_fan]

re: Broadway names pronunciation#182

Posted: 9/8/08 at 1:19am

For Aaron Tveit, it's actually pronounced "Ta-VATE," which sounds like "eight."

He gives a last-name-phonetics lesson in a Broadway.com "Fresh Face" article:
http://www.broadway.com/GEN/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=561511

More pronunciations:

Julie Reiber (Wicked standby) = RYE-bur
Andrea Burns ("Daniela," In the Heights) = On-DRAY-uh (spelled with an accented "e") Updated On: 9/8/08 at 01:19 AM

[flaemmchen]

re: Broadway names pronunciation#183

Posted: 9/8/08 at 8:41am

Steve Kazee is actually pronounced Kuh-zee, not Kay-zee. He actually pronounced it for us in an old Spamalot interview.

And I think it's Mere-DEEZ.

"Peace! The charm's wound up." --Macbeth

[Yankeefan007]

re: Broadway names pronunciation#184

Posted: 9/8/08 at 8:48am

Yank-EEE Fan Oh Oh Sev-in

[DefyGravity777]

re: Broadway names pronunciation#185

Posted: 9/8/08 at 9:08am

Cute story about Julie Reiber. I was at her Creative Seeds benefit in August and the lady that she was hosting with(who was a really good friend of hers) was pronouncing her name like "Ree-Bur" all night long. Finally towards the end Julie turned to her and said you know that my last name is actually "Rye-Bur"....LOL.

I actually thought it was "Ree-Bur" also by just how it's spelled until she corrected me...hahaha.

Don't believe everything that you hear! Only the peeps involved know the truth!

[Weez]

re: Broadway names pronunciation#186

Posted: 9/8/08 at 9:21am

I... don't think this one's a problem for American-accented people, but English-/Australian-accented people, help me out:

Philip Quast. QuOst (like watch), or QuAst (like quack)? I'm currently striking a QuAHst middle ground, but I'd be very interested to know what it actually is!

Notes from the Earlham Street Gutter

Updated On: 9/8/08 at 09:21 AM

[stupidbeans]

re: Broadway names pronunciation#187

Posted: 9/8/08 at 9:22am

fill-up kwost


at least that is what I think...

"And We Have A Shepherd's Pie Peppered With Actual Shepherd On Top" - Mrs. Lovett, Sweeney Todd

[flaemmchen]

re: Broadway names pronunciation#188

Posted: 9/8/08 at 11:51am

I've actually heard it pronounced Q-way-st.

"Peace! The charm's wound up." --Macbeth

[AntonEgo]

re: Broadway names pronunciation#189

Posted: 9/8/08 at 12:26pm

I have a question. Is it Hank-ee for Christopher J. Hanke?

[stupidbeans]

re: Broadway names pronunciation#190

Posted: 9/8/08 at 12:27pm

yes AntonEgo

and you will kill me for this

but is it Bob fo-see or fo-say

because I have heard it both ways

"And We Have A Shepherd's Pie Peppered With Actual Shepherd On Top" - Mrs. Lovett, Sweeney Todd

[ShbrtAlley44]

re: Broadway names pronunciation#191

Posted: 9/8/08 at 12:40pm

Foss-ee

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

re: Broadway names pronunciation#192

Posted: 9/8/08 at 3:06pm

How do you say "Drew Sarich?" I've always pronounced it with a bit of a German accent, the hard back-of-the-throat 'ch.'

I also am wondering about 'Philip Quast' as well. I switch between 'Quost' and 'Quaaast.'

In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy

[HDawg1024]

re: Broadway names pronunciation#193

Posted: 11/5/17 at 4:51pm

yes on-joel-ross is correct for Enjolras, I have a friend who's convinced it's on-heh-lor-es and it makes me mad

[OlliesDad]

re: Broadway names pronunciation#194

Posted: 11/5/17 at 7:59pm

How about Laura Osnes? Is it Oz-ness?

[GavestonPS]

re: Broadway names pronunciation#195

Posted: 11/6/17 at 4:03am

Two that were never answered pages back:

1. When I worked with him, it was:

Wayne Chi-LENT-oh

Though I must admit I never asked him. People in the company were calling him that and maybe he just wasn't making an issue of it.

2. Alfred Lunt and:

Lin Fawn-tan

Lynn Fontanne rhymes with "pan".

[BroadwayRox3588]

re: Broadway names pronunciation#196

Posted: 11/6/17 at 4:15am

I'm gonna use this platform to shake my head whenever I hear someone "Lin-Man-YOO-el Miranda"

Updated On: 11/6/17 at 04:15 AM

[gypsy101]

re: Broadway names pronunciation#197

Posted: 11/6/17 at 7:36am

eh Enjolras is not really with a Joel, it’s more of a zshul, not a hard jay.

now something that’s stuck in my craw lately: i find Caissie Levy to be a rare name i find hard to pronounce both the first AND last name. i’m normally very good at pronunciation but i’m stumped. is it like Cassie or Casey? and is it levy like the ones that broke in New Orleans or is it said like Levi (like the jeans)? i’m keeping my fingers crossed that it’s pronounced Casey Levi because Cassie Levy sounds stupid, as does Casey Levy. Cassie Levi is my number two pick (i guess maybe I just don’t like the word “levy” as a last name?)

"Contentment, it seems, simply happens. It appears accompanied by no bravos and no tears."

[AC126748]

re: Broadway names pronunciation#198

Posted: 11/6/17 at 8:54am

First name pronounced "Casey". Last name : Lee-Vee.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[dramamama611]

re: Broadway names pronunciation#199

Posted: 11/6/17 at 8:58am

LEVY is pronounced so differently dependent on location.  In the NY region, it's usually LEE VEE , in New England, no one says it that way and says, Lev ee.  Drives me nuts.  Don't mess with my name. It's all I have!

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