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Post by bizzo on Feb 27, 2016 9:15:01 GMT
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Post by DebbieDoesDouglas(Hodge) on Feb 27, 2016 10:55:53 GMT
Helena Bronchitis
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2016 11:24:11 GMT
I actually have thought about this... my real name is Daniel Johnson, but if I had a stage name I have thought about using my middle name rather than my last... so it would be Daniel David.  |
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Post by DebbieDoesDouglas(Hodge) on Feb 27, 2016 12:33:57 GMT
I changed my name by deed poll several years ago (changed it back since and my real name AINT my Facebook name) to Joshua Zebedee Rivers so I'd prob have it as that. Or just Rivers
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Post by d'James on Feb 27, 2016 12:40:30 GMT
I'd just go with this. Not enough people have one word names anymore.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2016 14:26:48 GMT
What would *your* stage name be, bizzo? Assuming you're interested in actually having a conversation and not just shilling your blog?
I've just run my real name through Spotlight.com and no other actor appears to be currently using it, so I wouldn't need to worry about choosing a stage name.
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Post by Coated on Feb 27, 2016 14:56:08 GMT
Bonnie La Nuit. I'll only appear in murder mysteries, whispering 'Good Night, Sweetheart' in my victims' ears as they lie dying, my maniacal cackle the last earthly sound they hear...
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Post by The Matthew on Feb 27, 2016 15:38:19 GMT
My family has — or had; nobody uses it these days — a family stage name, but as my only interest in theatre is on the technical side and no power on earth could persuade me to be a performer I wouldn't have any occasion to use it. It would be a bit pretentious to adopt a stage name for technical work.
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Post by bizzo on Feb 27, 2016 16:40:38 GMT
For a while at school I wished I could change my surname when I got married instead of my wife but have come not to be bothered over the years but do like my College nickname Biz or my username Bizzo
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Post by lynette on Feb 27, 2016 17:23:17 GMT
I changed my name by deed poll several years ago (changed it back since and my real name AINT my Facebook name) to Joshua Zebedee Rivers so I'd prob have it as that. Or just Rivers Make your mind up! Why not blend into Helena Rivers, very classy? |
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Post by bizzo on Feb 27, 2016 17:56:02 GMT
What would *your* stage name be, bizzo? Assuming you're interested in actually having a conversation and not just shilling your blog? I've just run my real name through Spotlight.com and no other actor appears to be currently using it, so I wouldn't need to worry about choosing a stage name. For a while at school I wished I could change my surname when I got married instead of my wife but have come not to be bothered over the years but do like my College nickname Biz or my username Bizzo |
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Post by bizzo on Feb 28, 2016 9:16:57 GMT
I'd just go with this. Not enough people have one word names anymore. Suppose you know you have made it when people call you by one name like Kylie and Adele etc |
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Post by DuchessConstance on Feb 28, 2016 14:45:45 GMT
I use my real name as my stage name but if I had to pick one, I went through a phase of calling myself Esmerelda when I was little? Don't know what goes with Esmerelda.
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Post by cartoonman on Mar 1, 2020 19:07:33 GMT
An actor told me that at drama school he was told to use his middle name and place of birth. That would make me George Hackney. Could be worse.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 1, 2020 19:44:07 GMT
An actor told me that at drama school he was told to use his middle name and place of birth. That would make me George Hackney. Could be worse. I’d be Terence Sheffield. I like it! |
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 1, 2020 20:54:48 GMT
Mine would be Elizabeth Oxford by that method, which isn't bad. I've never thought about a stage name, as I've never contemplated going on stage (like Lina Lamont, I can't sing, I can't dance & I can't act!) but I have on occasion fatasized about what name I'd use if I could be an author (not that I can write either!) & thought that I'd go for my two middle names, Elizabeth Wyand. Given how unusual Wyand is as a surname, I'm pretty certain I wouldn't have problems with lots of other people having the same name.
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Post by The Matthew on Mar 1, 2020 21:13:05 GMT
(Notes down everyone's answers to their bank account security questions.)
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Post by Someone in a tree on Mar 1, 2020 21:37:54 GMT
An actor told me that at drama school he was told to use his middle name and place of birth. That would make me George Hackney. Could be worse. I’d be Terence Sheffield. I like it! Paul Beverley I don't like it! |
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Post by tysilio2 on Mar 1, 2020 21:50:37 GMT
I'd be Norman Wrexham. My career is already over!
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Mar 1, 2020 23:41:32 GMT
Rebekah Blackburn. It's fine, I guess?
(Now I've admitted I'm not actually from Yorkshire but from t'other side 😲)
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Post by Someone in a tree on Mar 2, 2020 7:05:45 GMT
Rebekah Blackburn. It's fine, I guess? (Now I've admitted I'm not actually from Yorkshire but from t'other side 😲) Ay up lad! Welcome t' club |
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Post by Mr Snow on Mar 2, 2020 14:33:57 GMT
An actor told me that at drama school he was told to use his middle name and place of birth. That would make me George Hackney. Could be worse. Richard Roscommon! I think I'll stick with Mr Snow. |
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Post by Deal J on Mar 2, 2020 18:42:02 GMT
Leslie Saint Asaph.
I didn’t think I could get any gayer, but there it is!
Tickets are still available for my one man show. All of them.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 2, 2020 18:43:33 GMT
It gets difficult if you use your middle name and the name of the street that you were born in.
Yours,
Terence Mushroom 🍄
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Post by Deal J on Mar 2, 2020 18:57:17 GMT
It gets difficult if you use your middle name and the name of the street that you were born in. Yours, Terence Mushroom 🍄 <obligatory> You sound like a fun guy. </obligatory> |
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Post by tonyloco on Mar 3, 2020 15:02:24 GMT
Going off on something of a tangent, I am reminded that some years ago it was not uncommon for opera singers to change their names to seem to be more classy or more important than they actually were and singers from Australia did this all the time. They often took a new name to reflect where they were from as can be seen from the following list:
Helen Porter Mitchell became Nellie Melba (Melbourne)
Florence Wilson became Florence Austral (Australia)
Elsie Mary Fischer became Elsa Stralia (Australia)
June Gough became June Bronhill (Broken Hill)
Sarah Cohen became Syria Lamonte (more exotic)
Catherine Mary Ryan became Marie Narelle
Flora Flanagan became Florrie Forde
Ivy Ansley became Irene Ainsley (classier)
Fanny Davis became Frances Alda (her married name had been Adler)
Lance Ingram became Albert Lance (because Ingram was not an easy name for the French to pronounce when he settled in Paris)
Lionel Cecil Sherwood became Lionello Cecil (better for his career in Italy)
Clearly Joan Sutherland did not need to change her name because her surname was close enough to 'South Land' to identify with Australia as the Great South Land.
When I see some of today's opera stars with unpronounceable names I rather wish it was still the fashion to change to something easier to remember as well as say!
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Post by tysilio2 on Mar 3, 2020 15:37:13 GMT
Fanny Davis became Frances Alda (her married name had been Adler)
I wish she'd stuck with her married name. Fanny Adler sounds like a 19th century job! |
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Post by cartoonman on Mar 3, 2020 19:12:51 GMT
Wasn't Alicia Markova Alice Marks. I always thought that Deborah Bull was a great dancer who didn't change her name. You always remembered it.
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Post by tonyloco on Mar 3, 2020 22:44:41 GMT
Wasn't Alicia Markova Alice Marks. I always thought that Deborah Bull was a great dancer who didn't change her name. You always remembered it.
As regards Deborah Bull not changing her name, I once asked my actor/writer/TV presenter friend Christopher Lillicrap why he hadn't changed his name when he entered the theatrical profession and he answered simply:
"I got through school with it!"
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Post by tonyloco on Mar 4, 2020 9:40:54 GMT
By the way, here's another tangential anecdote further off the main subject!
Back in the day, one of my friends worked in the box office of the Royal Opera House during the heyday of Fonteyn and Nureyev. One day a rather rough woman came to the box office and asked:
"Are they on tonight"
"Who?" enquired my friend.
"You know! 'Im and 'Er" replied the woman.
This being too good to pass over, my friend decided to turn these into Russian names so they became 'Imanoff and Ermanova', which is how we always referred to Nureyev and Fonteyn thereafter.
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