Recorded TPOTS audiobook actors today
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ellenkushnerAnd here are my notes from our all-day recording session at DuArt on W. 55th Street!
Bill Rogers, playing Lord Ferris' footman: Am I afraid of him?
EK: Not really - it's just a Butler Line.
Nick Sullivan (Lord Ferris): I've got an eyepatch, just remember that.
Katherine Kellgren (playing Teresa Grey & Artemisia Fitz-Levi & Flavia & whoever else we needed, all equally brilliantly) - well, actually I can't quote Katy specifically, but suffice it to say that when I asked her if she could do the Modiste with a Devon accent (because there are no French people in Riverside), well, she did it. Also, she asked me whether I wanted the read (Teresa's line) to be "a young forest god, dappled golden" or "a young forest god: dappled, golden." With my Assistant Director hat on, I couldn't remember what I'd meant, so I told her what Delia told me when I was rehearsing my own lines: "Trust the author." And then, of course, I remembered that I had hand-tooled every single comma, so if there wasn't one, it meant "dappled golden." So we did.
And she & Jason Collins as Lucius Perry made me cry.
Wonderful moment: Hearing the Mad Duke, actor Joe Hurley, drifting down the hall to our first session muttering over and over to himself, "I intend . . . to make a swordsman of her!" He was inspired in his performance by some of my favorite Peter O'Toole movies - and at one point in the session even paused to pronounce: "I'm a movie star - not an actor!" (10 points to everyone who can identify that quote.)
Hurley as the Duke & Nick Sullivan as Ferris had incredible chemistry - it was definitely one of those times when the actors read it even better than you hear it in your head!
And to top it off, my beloved nephew AJ turned out to be working (internship for HGTV) in the same building! (He figured this out when he saw the photo on my new Tumblr....) So he came to our floor after work, and ended up PA'ing for us, and then recording some voice wildtrax for the crowd scene at the Rogues' Ball. So happy.
The above notes do not do justice to the utter wonderfulness of the 8.5-hour session, and I know I'm not telling you things like how many scenes we're illuminating, or what else people are playing, or, well, things - but I'll save that for another post.
. . . . Oh, OK: I do all the Katherine first person narration, and Barbara Rosenblat is the 3rd person narrator. And Neil Gaiman may get a "cookie." SueMedia Productions, like the Swordspoint audiobook , with music again by Nathanael Tronerud. And a really gorgeous new image by Tom Canty, coming right up!
We're hoping to have the The Privilege of the Sword audiobook out on Audible.com's Neil Gaiman Presents/ACX sometime in June 2012.
(Yes, I know the icon is for Swordspoint audiobook - I'll change it later.)
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Date: 2012-04-20 04:33 am (UTC)(I didn't look it up; I was working from memory. So if I'm wrong, well... has anyone ever actually died from too much Peter O'Toole? Other than Peter O'Toole, obvs.)
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Date: 2012-04-20 04:45 am (UTC)In other news, guess what my new desktop wallpaper is?
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Date: 2012-05-11 05:16 pm (UTC)And Peter O'Toole is not dead. Joe's been in touch with him in Ireland!
[EDITED FOR DETAIL - originally posted April 20th]
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Date: 2012-04-20 04:34 am (UTC)One of our household's quote mines.
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Date: 2012-04-20 04:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-20 05:35 am (UTC)O'Toole is magnificent in this one. Magnificent-er. Something.
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Date: 2012-04-20 08:18 am (UTC)I'm looking forward to hearing a Devon accent in Riverside! I just hope it's a good Devon accent :>)
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Date: 2012-04-20 10:42 pm (UTC)But we decided that, even in a country that small, there would be regional accents from the provinces. So we all threw in some totally unplaceable British Isles things from time to time when we needed to establish new minor characters. Hope this doesn't drive a true Devonian to distraction.
[OK: NOW READ THIS MESSAGE AND BURN IT! #tricksofthetrade]
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Date: 2012-04-20 10:53 am (UTC)Just last night I finished rereading TPOTS in anticipation of this (also, because I really wanted to) and now my wanting has risen to a frenzied, fevered pitch (ok, that's pretty purple, even for me.) June is so far away! But also, not.
In conclusion, TPOTS audiobook, hooray!
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Date: 2012-04-20 11:03 am (UTC)- Erulisse (one L)
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Date: 2012-04-20 01:45 pm (UTC)All the hours of tedious and creative labor now belong to Sue & David, who will be editing tracks & creating sound effects and mixing it all together for, ah, some weeks to come. But they seem to enjoy it, the dears.
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