Growing up in New York City, I grew up with theater. Especially, since my father did plays from community theater to Off-Off-Broadway. Therefore, I thought I knew how to say Godot, as in Waiting for Godot, and I was wrong.
I thought it was Ga (like Ga-linda)-Dough. As did everyone I knew who ever said it around me. And we were all mispronouncing it.
Yesterday, when Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves appeared on Today to talk about their Broadway play, they revealed the correct pronunciation. It is Gd-Oh. Like, O-M-G-Oh…did you hear who is starring in Waiting for Godot?
Ted “Theodore” Logan explained, “In the play, there is so much alliteration and rhymes with Godot.” Then he added, “The play is talking a bit about Gd.”
So for the future, we know the proper way to say it, so we sound like theater aficionados.
However, if you want to say it the way you have always been saying it, that is alright. Bill S. Preston, Esquire, told Craig Melvin that the play’s author, Samuel Beckett (no relation to the guy from Quantum Leap), “preferred Gd-Oh…Beckett himself said you can pronounce it however you want.”
Last week, Brandon Armstrong and his partner, Lauren Jauregui, were shockingly eliminated from Dancing with the Stars.
When Julianne Hough asked the Fifth Harmony singer how she felt about the elimination, she responded with one word. That one word was, “Pissed!”
It was the reaction heard around the entertainment gossip world. And now her dancing partner has immortalized that word on himself.
While some people have a monkey on their back, he has that word on his back shoulder. And I respect him for turning something negative into something positive.
Before Nick Carter’s face could be seen all over the world in the Backstreet Boys music videos, we didn’t see it in Edward Scissorhands. Did you know that the 9-year-old made his on-camera debut in that 1990 movie?
