Real Actors Do Spit- Page 2
Real Actors Do Spit
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#25re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 5:53pm
A lotta Tony-winning spit here.
And wrq, the idea of acrobatic spit from this Ben Magnuson is positively astounding! Somersaults, flips, great arcs, spirals?
Acrobatic spit?
#26re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 5:53pm
I'll vouch for Hugh Panaro's spitting. I've heard him called "The Spitmeister" and he's proven it every time I've seen him, in both Phantom and Lestat.
One night when I'd been in the front row at Phantom, he defiantly asked me, "Did I spit on you?"
Um, yes.
Oh, and there was an actress in a local production up here in Albany...I think it was "Private Lives." She was the worst spitter I've seen...to the point where I pitied her co-star (and he was an arrogant jerk that I disliked).
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#27re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 5:57pm
Oh, my!
Has it come to that? Hubris in casting one's spray? The naughty thing. Panaro we need to spank your spitter's butt!
Lithgow gave a commencement address at Harvard. To think of him sending his actorly spit over all the ivy at his alma mater is somehow amusing...
#28re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 5:58pm
I witnessed some pretty intense spitting in the Drowsy Chaperone...but only from Hibbert and Engle 
"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#29re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 6:01pm
I must admit, TomMonster, that I have thought of their otherly rediculous spit routine several times today on the subject of spittle.
However, that is more spittoonly spit than the actor's magnificent "spray" of which we speak in this thread.
#30re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 6:03pm
Real Actors Do Spit . . .
. . . but not on Gerald McRaney
#31re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 6:03pm
" I've never known spit was capable of that. It's quite impressive."
I laughed out loud 
#32re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 6:04pmI could see John Lithgow's spit from the Rear Mezz!
#33re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 6:05pm
I was just havin' some fun! But, nomdeplume, you are correct in that all the greats did spit.
Burton, Gielgud, etc, all spitters...
"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#34re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 6:08pm
Hot spit!
This thread became hot at 442 views instead of 500. How do they do that?
Observe as spittle shoots to the top in meteoric rise!
camp_actor
Featured Actor Joined: 1/5/04
#35re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 6:12pm
Michael Gambon splatters up a storm when he's in full theatrical mode. When I saw him in Endgame in London a couple of years back I was in the Dress Circle and I'm pretty sure I felt a few good wads of spittle sliding down my cheeks. He was f***ing great too!
Colm Wilkinson has the kind of voice that sounds like he's probably spitting everywhere, though having not seen him live (nor particularly having the desire to) I can't vouch for it.
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#36re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 6:13pm
Asteroids of spit to the Dress Circle!
The visuals!
sarbear2
Understudy Joined: 12/22/04
#37re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 6:15pmRichard Griffiths, Ralph Fiennes, and Michael Cerveris all spat up a storm when I saw them.
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#38re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 6:17pm
Typhoon Fiennes, his next nickname!
How about the women? They spit, too.
You know they do!
#39re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 6:18pmJames Earl Jones in "Othello" = Showers of Spittle
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#41re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 6:21pm
Will Chase spat like crazy when I saw him in Lennon.
Also, Stephen Lynch.
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#42re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 6:24pm
Will Chase? As in The Arresting?
Glory boy, that one!
Will Chase (is) Arresting
Updated On: 8/13/06 at 06:24 PM
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#44re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 6:27pm
Try now.
Spit from Will is just SO expectorate!
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#45re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 6:38pm
Yep.
Spit is one of the dark secrets of the trade.
Who can expose the great female spitters treading the boards?
Updated On: 8/13/06 at 06:38 PM
camp_actor
Featured Actor Joined: 1/5/04
#46re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 6:40pm
nomdeplume, you are genius! I think Will Chase is well fit!
I don't THINK I've heard him sing before... I heard him talking on Seth's BWAY Chatterbox, sounded like a cool guy. And as we've said before - he is well fit, innit! 
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
camp_actor
Featured Actor Joined: 1/5/04
#48re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 6:43pmEwan McGregor spat a lot during Guys and Dolls. I spat right back, he was rubbish! Sang like a frog!
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#49re: Real Actors Do Spit
Posted: 8/13/06 at 6:45pm
Who said the audience doesn't get in on the act?
Spit for the stars!
Scream out "Pookie" to your favorite actor (after properly warming up your voice, of course) and watch your spray!
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