need to learn russian accent
need to learn russian accent
#0need to learn russian accent
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?
#1re: need to learn russian accent
Posted: 3/11/06 at 2:58pm
It's got a Russian disc on there.
New York Public Library
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#2re: re: need to learn russian accent
Posted: 3/11/06 at 2:59pmWhy isn't my post showing up?
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
Thesbijean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/9/04
#3re: re: need to learn russian accent
Posted: 3/11/06 at 3:01pmHow do you mean? I see your above post
#4re: re: need to learn russian accent
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
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#5re: re: need to learn russian accent
Posted: 3/11/06 at 4:07pmTake 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.'
#6re: re: need to learn russian accent
Posted: 3/11/06 at 4:14pmVanessa Williams does a good job with the Russian accent in the Kiss of the spider woman cd.
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#7re: re: need to learn russian accent
Posted: 3/11/06 at 5:01pmThesbijean- For some reason it wasn't showing up on my computer.
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
CTY
Understudy Joined: 1/6/05
#8re: re: need to learn russian accent
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#9re: re: need to learn russian accent
Posted: 3/11/06 at 11:43pmMight I suggest a quick trip to Kiev?
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#10re: re: need to learn russian accent
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?
#11re: re: need to learn russian accent
Posted: 3/12/06 at 9:30pmbbc 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/21/06
#12re: re: need to learn russian accent
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.
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Pasty
Stand-by Joined: 10/27/05
#13re: re: need to learn russian accent
Posted: 3/12/06 at 9:36pm
Here's the best website ever. Love it.
http://www.ku.edu/~idea/
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#14re: re: need to learn russian accent
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.
#15re: re: need to learn russian accent
Posted: 3/12/06 at 11:56pmWhere's sanda when we needs her?
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"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
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/21/06
#16re: re: need to learn russian accent
Posted: 3/12/06 at 11:58pmЯ не знал, что Санда говорит по-русски.
The smallest stream is a valent river. It will drown me if it can.
#17re: re: need to learn russian accent
Posted: 3/13/06 at 6:12am2 могут сыграть на той игре.
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