Sorry if this offens anyone

[EponineThenardier]

Posted: 10/3/04 at 11:27pm

Whats John Tartaglia's national background? I've always wondered. Just curious. Thats all.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 10/3/04 at 11:29pm

This is TOTALLY out in left field, but doesn't Tartaglia sound kind of Italian?

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 10/3/04 at 11:38pm

Very Italian

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 10/3/04 at 11:48pm

The only thing that offends me is that you misspelled it in the subject title.

[Musetta1957]

Posted: 10/3/04 at 11:48pm

National background? American.

Ethnicity? Italian.

Learn the teminology, folks...

[EponineThenardier]

Posted: 10/3/04 at 11:49pm

Musetta not commenting on my spelling this time though! I must have done something right! Love yea hun

[Chrysanthemum62001]

Posted: 10/3/04 at 11:52pm

::humms 'Everyone's A Little Bit Racist'::

[Musetta1957]

Posted: 10/3/04 at 11:53pm

I didn't comment; I just edited the subject header!

[BreakingTheCircle07]

Posted: 10/4/04 at 12:46am

Yikes you guys!

[xluckystar2107x]

Posted: 10/4/04 at 12:27pm

could have said ethnicity (sp?)

[Albin]

Posted: 10/4/04 at 2:42pm

Why in heaven's name should your question offend anyone.
Just another example of p.c. run amuck!

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 10/4/04 at 3:10pm

LUV the J-Tart!

[Jon]

Posted: 10/4/04 at 7:40pm

More importantly, is the "G" pronounced - as in "Tar-TAG-lee-uh", or silent, as in "Tar-TALL-yuh"? (or "imbroglio" or "filet mignon"?

[bythesword84]

Posted: 10/4/04 at 7:47pm

The G is DEFINITELY pronounced.

It is said Tar-TAG-LEE-UH.

Edit: And yes, just for further clarification John is indeed Italian.

Updated On: 10/4/04 at 07:47 PM

[mywonderwa11]

Posted: 10/4/04 at 8:14pm

John is my boyfriend

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 10/4/04 at 8:16pm

"More importantly, is the "G" pronounced - as in "Tar-TAG-lee-uh", or silent, as in "Tar-TALL-yuh"? (or "imbroglio" or "filet mignon"?"

On the Tonys website, there's a little clip on John being interviewed right after Q won Best Musical. The guy who's doing the interview doesn't pronounce the "G." It makes me SO angry.

Updated On: 10/4/04 at 08:16 PM

[EponineThenardier]

Posted: 10/4/04 at 8:39pm

And notice how John doesn't mention it or anything. So humle, loooove him

[bythesword84]

Posted: 10/4/04 at 8:57pm

Actually when he did his Cabaret at Joe's Pub he did mention how people always pronounce his name wrong, so he does pick it up.

[LadyGuenevere]

Posted: 10/4/04 at 10:49pm

Isn't it that the Italian pronouncement would be "Tar-tall-yuh" with a small emphasis on the "G"? "Tar-TAG-lyuh" sounds too Americanized.

[bythesword84]

Posted: 10/4/04 at 11:00pm

As a fellow Italian whose name is also Americanized in a very similar fashion, yes that would be closer to the original pronunciation but it is Americanized. With my last name, people do the same thing they do to his, they say it the Italian way and then you have to correct them and explain its the Americanized way that you use. For example, mine has a "CC" in it which we say as an "S" which is American, but Italians say it as a "ch" so it throws people off all the time. That's probably why so many people don't say the G when they say his name, even though the way he pronounces it the G is said.