Enunciate, Enunciate, Enunciate!!- Page 2

[CostumeMistress]

Posted: 4/12/05 at 6:46pm

Updated On: 2/7/06 at 06:46 PM

[Gothampc]

Posted: 4/12/05 at 6:48pm

Patti LuPone's enunciation was so bad, that Forbidden Broadway skewered her in Anything Goes.

I heard someone say once that Ethel Merman had the best enunciation. Now if she could have only gotten rid of that Astoria accent.

[Mythus]

Posted: 4/12/05 at 7:00pm

Although I love Patti LuPone, she is the queen of questionable enunciation.

Yes! My girlfriend doesn't really believe me when I say that. But even on the Sweeney DVD, it's evident. Her diction is good at times, and then she'll leave the last few letters off a few words, or slur it a little so you have no idea what she said.

[Derech2]

Posted: 4/12/05 at 7:57pm

Yeah I always noticed Lea Salonga's enunciation, especially during On My Own without/ a hope, without/ a friend, without/ a face to say hello to. It was rather irritating, but usually she enunciates beautifully.

That's a bummer that Stephanie was hard to understand. I always had trouble understanding the ensemble on the Wicked CD, but the soloists were fine, IMO; I had no trouble at all understanding the words.

Coimhéad fearg fhear na foighde.

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 4/12/05 at 8:41pm

For anyone still confused about the Little Women reference, I believe AndyF was saying that they OVER ennunciate and that is gets annoying. Is that correct, Andy?

[IMsooHyprToday]

Posted: 4/12/05 at 9:06pm

the national tour of OKLAHOMA needs to enunciate too

[sabrelady]

Posted: 4/13/05 at 11:50pm

I had no problem hearing everything Norbert Leo Butz sang/said in "Wicked". Some of the ensemble not so clear.

[EponineThenardier]

Posted: 4/14/05 at 12:50am

How is the cast of DRS anf Ave Q? Cause if I can't hear them then I'm gonna be pissed...

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 4/14/05 at 10:19am

Stephanie was hard to understand in 'The Boy from Oz', too.

[keggss23]

Posted: 4/14/05 at 3:38pm

I agree about Patti. I love her, but she is really hard to understand. I don't think I understood a word she said at the Candide concert.

[Broadwaylady]

Posted: 4/14/05 at 3:55pm

My seats are usually closer in orchestra and I had no trouble with Stephanie Block, Sutton Foster etc.

Those three words, Enuciate, enuciate, enucitate reminded me of my dad who was a little hard of hearing and told us were not speaking clearly and he would yell, enunciate, enuciate.