Jimmyt English Wannabee

Subject: RE: Jimmyt English Wannabee
From: greg stephens
Date: 03 Feb 06 - 03:07 PM

Jimmy: just remember, it's theatre and it's arse, and you'll be OK.

Subject: RE: Jimmyt English Wannabee
From: jimmyt
Date: 03 Feb 06 - 01:32 PM

I need to clarify, Mo, I have done many many plays, but they were all comedy or musical comedy and this is my first non-comedic role. It was theater by the way that led me to folk music. I auditioned for a role that required me to play a bit uf upright bass and the instrument just appealed to me I ultimately started playing it in a folk group.

Subject: RE: Jimmyt English Wannabee
From: Mo the caller
Date: 03 Feb 06 - 10:59 AM

"I have NEVER done any theater"
You'd better not do any if you want to be one of us. It's theatre here.

Subject: RE: Jimmyt English Wannabee
From: jimmyt
Date: 03 Feb 06 - 09:50 AM

Art, I resemble that remark

Subject: RE: Jimmyt English Wannabee
From: artbrooks
Date: 03 Feb 06 - 09:28 AM

DH, does jimmyt really have to be neutralized? After all, he's pretty much past it anyway...maybe if he just agreed to stay away from the ladies first thing in the morning?

Subject: RE: Jimmyt English Wannabee
From: jimmyt
Date: 03 Feb 06 - 09:08 AM

QUite, Jeanie, Recieved it is, madame. The concepet of moving the word forward in one's mouth beefoh letting it out of one's mouth as well as clpng the short o are other big changes for someone who grew up in Ohio where we pretty much get the word finished on the back of the tongue then throw it out of the mouth.

At any rate, old chaps, I am at least fooling some of the elderly, small children and people of foreign backgrounds and the hearing impaired.

The other interesting thing is that I have NEVER done any theater but comedy and everything I did last night got a chuckle because the audience somehow expected I was going to be funny, regardless of the fact this is not a comedy. I am afraid I am stuck in the role of a non-serious performer.

Subject: RE: Jimmyt English Wannabee
From: Grab
Date: 03 Feb 06 - 08:08 AM

Never mind the accent - if you can insert the words "old chap" and "ECTually" into as many sentences as possible, you'll probably fool most of them... ;-) At least, if half the Hollywood stuff you see is anything to go by - if you believe that, every over here speaks upper-clarse (unless they're Cockerney, when they speak like Dick van Dyke).

Graham.

Subject: RE: Jimmyt English Wannabee
From: Dead Horse
Date: 03 Feb 06 - 06:32 AM

Of course you realise that you would have to be Neutralised first, jimmyt?
AND you would have to give up all your overseas business to the Crown.
Quite what Queen Liz would do with 500 assorted thongs is beyond me though.

Subject: RE: Jimmyt English Wannabee
From: gnu
Date: 03 Feb 06 - 06:08 AM

Of course, you meant "honourary Englishman". Break a leg James.

Subject: RE: Jimmyt English Wannabee
From: Hrothgar
Date: 03 Feb 06 - 05:26 AM

He wants to be a Pom???

Should be restrained for his own good.

:-)

Subject: RE: Jimmyt English Wannabee
From: Jeanie
Date: 03 Feb 06 - 05:22 AM

"Received Pronunciation" eh, old chap ? i.e. "talking proper". I would say you are now well on the way to earning the letters Hon. Brit. after your name, especially seeing as how you've already successfully mastered the Cockney rhyming slang and general rabbitin, me ol' china. (He's been taking secret private online lessons from me these past few years, and has already earned The Order of the Diamond Geezer).

Break a leg, Inspector Hubbard !

(I'm also venturing into strange and foreign linguistic territory: rehearsing a John Godber play, "Lucky Sods", set in Darkest Yorkshire, the place we southerners fear to tread, ay lad.)

- jeanie

Subject: RE: Jimmyt English Wannabee
From: Dead Horse
Date: 03 Feb 06 - 05:09 AM

Bloody Bostonians is always pretendin ta be summat else - last time it were bloody indians, an that cost us a packet - several packets in fact!
Nowt good will come of it, mark me onnit.
:-)

Subject: RE: Jimmyt English Wannabee
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 03 Feb 06 - 04:37 AM

Buy yourself a tweed hacking jacket Jimmy, and brush on the difference between 'Assam' and 'English breakfast' tea and I will see what I can do about a passport.

Subject: RE: Jimmyt English Wannabee
From: Peace
Date: 02 Feb 06 - 11:03 PM

PS

I hope you brohad a great opening night, buddy.

Subject: RE: Jimmyt English Wannabee
From: Peace
Date: 02 Feb 06 - 11:02 PM

"MAny of you know that I am the consumate Anglophile"

My gawd, jimmy, does your wife know?

Subject: Jimmyt English Wannabee
From: jimmyt
Date: 02 Feb 06 - 11:02 PM

MAny of you know that I am the consumate Anglophile and absolutely love hangnig out with my Brit Mudcat buddies. Well, tonight I took a step beyond playing the part of Inspector Hubbard in Dial M for Murder which opened to a full house a couple hours ago. I am SUPPOSED to have a standard ENglish accent which I am afraid is not quite so consistant in each and every word, but it was a good opening night and no disasters ensued. I should hope that I can become an honorary Englishman next visit!