Actually, there's a wonderful little stage comedy that explores just this
phenomenon, "The Foreigner." In it, a shy Englishman vacationing in a
mountain lodge in Georgia (USA) is compelled to masquerade as a "foreigner"
who can't speak or understand English.
Me, I'm workink on my fake aksent to play a vampire queen for the
trick-or-treaters tonight, dahlink.
Liz
>From: John Alexander Blyth <BLYTHE@B...>
>From: John Alexander Blyth <BLYTHE@B...>
>Reply-To: vocalist-temporary@egroups.com
>To: vocalist-temporary@egroups.com
>Subject: Re: [vocalist-temporary] fake accents help
>Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 13:50:20 -0600
>
>mike,
> As well as being as hilarious as your posts often are, I think you're onto
>something here, though it's another clue that singing might not be the
>ideal medium of expression for the true introvert. john
>
>
>At 01:19 PM 10/31/00 -0500, you wrote:
wouldn't it be nice to sing in a foreign
> >language and make it 'make believe' as opposed to trying to convince
>people
> >you are more at home in that language than you really are? just for a
> >change?
> >
> > i'd much rather play army than to go to war.
> >
> >mike
> >
> >
Elizabeth Finkler
http://home.earthlink.net/~mightymezzo/
mightymezzo@h...
mightymezzo@h...
"Virtue is triumphant only in theatrical productions." --The Mikado
"Quitters never win. Winners never quit. But those who never win and never
quit are just plain stupid." --anonymousse
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