need to learn russian accent

[rKrispyt]

need to learn russian accent#0

Posted: 3/11/06 at 2:56pm

When I was in college I just got 'accent' tapes from my profs for british, irish, etc.

Just found out I'm in a show that requires a Russian accent - anyone ahve the first clue where I find these tapes or purchase them from? I don't even kno where to start looking...

If I show you the darkness I hold inside, will you bring me to light?

[dancingthrulife04]

re: need to learn russian accent#1

Posted: 3/11/06 at 2:58pm

It's got a Russian disc on there.
New York Public Library

http://www.beintheheights.com/katnicole1 (Please click and help me win!) I chose, and my world was shaken- So what?
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 "And when Idina Menzel is singing, I'm always slightly worried that her teeth are going to jump out of her mouth and chase me." - Schmerg_the_Impaler

[dancingthrulife04]

re: re: need to learn russian accent#2

Posted: 3/11/06 at 2:59pm

Why isn't my post showing up?

http://www.beintheheights.com/katnicole1 (Please click and help me win!) I chose, and my world was shaken- So what?
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 "And when Idina Menzel is singing, I'm always slightly worried that her teeth are going to jump out of her mouth and chase me." - Schmerg_the_Impaler

[Thesbijean]

re: re: need to learn russian accent#3

Posted: 3/11/06 at 3:01pm

How do you mean? I see your above post

[The Distinctive Baritone]

re: re: need to learn russian accent#4

Posted: 3/11/06 at 3:54pm

Get this book. It comes with CDs, is not very expensive (should be thirty-something dollars), and is the only dialect book you'll ever need.

Robert Blumenfeld
Accents: A Manual For Actors

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0879102691/qid=1142110329/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-1627018-6231849?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

[wexy]

re: re: need to learn russian accent#5

Posted: 3/11/06 at 4:07pm

Take the train down to Brighton Beach.

'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'

[muscle23ftl]

re: re: need to learn russian accent#6

Posted: 3/11/06 at 4:14pm

Vanessa Williams does a good job with the Russian accent in the Kiss of the spider woman cd.

"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one". -Felicia Finley-

[dancingthrulife04]

re: re: need to learn russian accent#7

Posted: 3/11/06 at 5:01pm

Thesbijean- For some reason it wasn't showing up on my computer.

http://www.beintheheights.com/katnicole1 (Please click and help me win!) I chose, and my world was shaken- So what?
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 "And when Idina Menzel is singing, I'm always slightly worried that her teeth are going to jump out of her mouth and chase me." - Schmerg_the_Impaler

[CTY]

re: re: need to learn russian accent#8

Posted: 3/11/06 at 9:42pm

i am loving to be speaking in of russian accent.
is so fun h'ok.

i am thinking you will be loving too.

[Dollypop]

re: re: need to learn russian accent#9

Posted: 3/11/06 at 11:43pm

Might I suggest a quick trip to Kiev?

"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

[rKrispyt]

re: re: need to learn russian accent#10

Posted: 3/12/06 at 6:39pm

lol, if only.

I just got my cast list Friday night for Chess and I'm playing Svetlana - so excited but...the only other time I did a russian accent was when I was Helena in Drood and it was just kinda what came out of my mouth at auditions, I didn't even know I could do one and anyone who knows the show knows that the accuracy in execution of it was not crucial to that character, lol.

JUst wanna start working on this now, as I begin my research, etc.

thanks for those suggestions, I'm gonna go google some things and look through my library system here - I just had no idea what to even google or put in a search engine, so thanks so much!! this really helped!

If I show you the darkness I hold inside, will you bring me to light?

[kenmarksnj]

re: re: need to learn russian accent#11

Posted: 3/12/06 at 9:30pm

bbc learning tapes are great too. though many of them are for learning russian as an actual second language, they represent the best russian dialects in order to maintain precision.

[BSoBW3]

re: re: need to learn russian accent#12

Posted: 3/12/06 at 9:32pm

I hate fake Russian accents.

People don't seem to realize that sounds they make doing a Russian exist don't actually exist in the Russian language.

The smallest stream is a valent river. It will drown me if it can.

[Pasty]

re: re: need to learn russian accent#13

Posted: 3/12/06 at 9:36pm

Here's the best website ever. Love it.

http://www.ku.edu/~idea/

[Jon]

re: re: need to learn russian accent#14

Posted: 3/12/06 at 11:52pm

Aw hell - just listen to Boris and Natasha from Rocky & Bullwinkle.

If you want authentic, rent the movie MOSCOW ON THE HUDSON. The actor who plays Robin Williams' friend (the clown) and the two actors who play the KGB agents are Russian.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: re: need to learn russian accent#15

Posted: 3/12/06 at 11:56pm

Where's sanda when we needs her?

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

[BSoBW3]

re: re: need to learn russian accent#16

Posted: 3/12/06 at 11:58pm

Я не знал, что Санда говорит по-русски.

The smallest stream is a valent river. It will drown me if it can.

[Composer9]

re: re: need to learn russian accent#17

Posted: 3/13/06 at 6:12am

2 могут сыграть на той игре.

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world. ~Leonard Bernstein~