Dialect
CDs for Plays and Musicals
Paul has a huge CD library of his designs for the accents and dialects needed in the many plays and musicals he has coached in the theatre. Paul’s acclaimed recordings consist of one CD per character. He demonstrates all the character's lines (spoken and/or sung) in the dialect — pronunciation, intonation, tone and rhythm, isolating and discussing the actor's choices. He avoids giving line readings, working slightly under tempo, allowing the actor to hear the dialect more clearly, concentrating on sounds rather than character intentions. He also explains the idioms and obscure vocabulary of the play, talking about the society presented by the play and how that character fits into it. This is everything an actor could want from a dialect coach, but in the convenient form of a CD.
Listen to an excerpt from Paul's 2-CD set for Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady; or from the 2-CD set for Henry Higgins. (Download the free flash player to hear these files.)
Titles include:
27 Wagons Full of Cotton, A. My Name is Alice, And Then There Were None, Angels in America (Millennium Approaches and Perestroika), Anna in the Tropics, Annie Get Your Gun, Anything Goes, Art of Murder, Black Comedy, Blood Brothers, Boeing-Boeing, Born Yesterday, Brigadoon, Broadway Bound, Brooklyn Boy, Bullshot Crummond, By the Bog of Cats, Cabaret, California Suite, Candida, Chess (British and American versions), The Cripple of Inishmaan, Dancing at Lughnasa, Drood, Easy Street, The Fantasticks, Fiddler on the Roof, Finian’s Rainbow, The Freedom of the City, Frozen, The Gaol Gate, The Glass Menagerie, Guys and Dolls, The Heart of a City, The History Boys, The House of Blue Leaves, The Importance of Being Earnest, Jane Eyre, Johnny Belinda, The King and I, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Last Night of Ballyhoo, Lend me a Tenor, Look Back in Anger, Mary’s Wedding, Music Man, My Fair Lady, Necessary Targets, Noises Off, The Odd Couple, Oh What a Lovely War, Oliver, Once in a Lifetime, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Our Country's Good, A Plague of Angels, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Pygmalion, Quiet in the Land, The Real Thing, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Secret Garden, Shadowlands, Shakespeare in Hollywood, A Shayna Maidel, Smash, South Pacific, Steel Magnolias, Street Scene, A Streetcar Named Desire, Sweeney Todd, Talley's Folly, Translations, The Waiting Room, West Side Story, and Women of Lockerbie.
If further coaching is desired, consider a Skype session with Paul.
Paul also provides links to free, online recordings of native dialect speakers as real-life models (and in some cases, to recordings of native speakers speaking the names, terms, and idioms used in the play you are producing). Hundreds of actors have used Paul's recordings and played their dialect roles with skill and confidence. If Paul doesn't have CDs for the show you're working on, he'll be glad to discuss making them for you.
Cost and Ordering Information:
Lease the CDs for an entire show (one CD per character) for $349 plus $5 per CD refundable deposit plus shipping. One complimentary copy of each dialect-instruction booklet and CD appropriate to the show is included for you to keep after you return the show-specific CDs for your refund (additional copies, $7.50 each). E-mail Paul for a quote or to place an order. Include the title of your show, your theatre, and your rehearsal and performance dates. Ask about leasing the CDs for selected characters only.
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