Accents

Hello,
Could anyone possibly tell me a website that would help me with different accents? Majorly used in the musical Oliver!, your help would be most appreciated.

Thanks*

A website won't necessarily help you, just keep watching movies!
That's what friends of mine have done for past productions. But i tend to get really in depth with my character and see what happens and if a 16 year old female can pull off Badger from Wind in the Willows, I'm sure you'll be right!

Good luck xoxox
Charisse

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Most of Lionel Barts songs have a typical brassy cockney swagger to the tune, [Even going back to ‘Caveman Rock’] a lot will allow you to ‘speak/sing’ to emphasize the words. Cockney is similar in a lot of ways to good old ‘strine’, except more like riding waves, from the crest down the trough & climbing to the crest, ready for the next wave & so on. Keeping in mind that nearly every 7th wave is a wet one, to hold & savor before the 8th one!
Live it - be it - do it, Step out side yourself, because your body language, is what comes over the floats first!
Drop your H’s & ‘th’ is pronounced as ‘F’ - "Firty fousan feavvers on a frush's froat"
If you can't get the accent, don/t bother - do it naturaly!
Chookas

musicaLover wrote:
>
> Hello,
> Could anyone possibly tell me a website that would help me
> with different accents? Majorly used in the musical Oliver!,
> your help would be most appreciated.




This page is very good for examples of lots of regional British accents. Choose a region and play the real audio file (doesn't take too long to download, and it's free)

http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/search/advanced.cfm?collection=Local%20Dialects&step=val_form



By the way, it took me less than a minute to find it, just by typing 'accents' into a Google search engine....not too hard!


Cheers,
Craig