PQ: Now with Irish accents?

i'll find out tonight...and will definitely post my full review.

if only a change in accents could save this mess...

When I saw the show March 11, I only heard one Irish accent -- Tiernan. Actually, two, since the actress playing Eveleen is Irish. Hadley's Irish accent sounded pretty good to my American ears...

Without A Trace- I'll see you there tonight. I really wanted to see the show one more time in previews, and was able to get a cheap single seat for tonight. Can't wait to see what they've been working on.

At the Gypsy Run I did not notice accents, but then when I went back a few days later I definitely heard some Irish coming through in Stephanie, Hadley and Marcus. I didn't notice it so much in Jeff. I personally thought it added a very nice dimension to the show. And I have to say, the three of them seemed to have a very nice handle on the sound, not that I am a master of accents or anything. I'll report back tomorrow on how/if they've continued to incorporate it into the show, and if everyone is doing it now or not. I'd hope if any of them are, then all of them are.

And Theater Boy, I'm sorry you felt the show was a mess. I'll have to go back and read your review to see what you didn't like about it. I'm always interested to hear from both sides of the divide.

Until tomorrow-

QB

ps- I've noticed the overall buzz surrounding this show has drastically improved over the past week. Not simply on this board, but in hearing people talk about the show around town. A good sign.

I wouldn't be surpised if one of the main factors in deciding to do an Irish accent was actually Hadley's English accent. When I saw the show in Chicago, I was somewhat thrown off that the Irishman fighting the English sounded so...well...ENGLISH! Not that it took anything away from his glorious rendition of I'll Be There! But now that they've added so much dialogue to the show, they probably wanted to hide the fact that the man leading the fight against the English is, in "real life", FROM England!

Maybe?

-QB

You may be right, Queen Bee. It makes sense. Your comment also made me laugh.

wow...sounds like i'm going to see a completely different show tonight than the one i saw on march 6th...looking forward to it!

fops :) I'm going to try and incorporate that into a conversation today.

Definition of Fop:
"A man who is preoccupied with and often vain about his clothes and manners; a dandy.

[Middle English, fool; probably akin to Middle English fob, trickster, cheat}"

if you would like to interpret it that way. But I believe she's calling them fools or something of that sort.

That's the thing...She DIDNT use the f word in the first preview!

I had heard that part of the song before the first preview and I too thought she was saying the f word. I was sitting fairly close in row G so I watched her and could see that it was NOT the f word. and later figured out she was saying fops. She has a way of pronouncing her words that if she was saying the f word she would put extra emphasis on the k.

I agree. You would hear it loud and CLEAR coming from her mouth. And with an Irish accent to boot! LOL