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Nathan Lane rips Addams Family on The View this Morning....
AngusN
Broadway Star Joined: 3/23/05
#25Nathan Lane rips Addams Family on The View this Morning....
Posted: 3/10/12 at 3:21pm
Well I beg to disagree:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPIATOXv90w
I'm English, and his accent here is less British than Dick Van Dyke's in Mary Poppins.
flahooley2
Understudy Joined: 6/1/08
#26Nathan Lane rips Addams Family on The View this Morning....
Posted: 3/10/12 at 4:09pmWell, there are only two lines shown here, and he certainly sounds fine to me, and not in the Dick Van Dyke cockney variety. It feels like you have an axe to grind with Lane. I saw his Bway debut in Present Laughter, in which he had a British accent, and then The Common Pursuit, where he first worked with Simon Gray, and neither time did anyone criticize his accent. After the success of The Producers, I think people were surprised to see him doing an English accent again. But you are certainly entitled to your opinion.
#27Nathan Lane rips Addams Family on The View this Morning....
Posted: 3/10/12 at 4:56pm
I remember when that WOM video came out. They used to be the laughing stock of the boards, because they would get normal people off the street who know nothing about theatre. As you can see, all three of them didn't like it, because they walked in expecting funny man Nathan Lane being Nathan Lane. This is him at the top of his game, but the general public wants The Producers, Guys & Dolls, Forum... not Butley and Waiting for Godot.
His accent sounds perfectly fine to me on that video, and seeing it live, I remember it being even better - I saw it in it's last week, I'm sure he improved on it throughout the run. - But like flahooley said - your opinion. :)
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