00:00 - 01:05 JOEY: Yes! Guess who’s in an audition1 for a Broadway i musical? CHANDLER: I want to say you2, but it seems like such an easy answer. JOEY: It is me! It’s a musical ver-
sion of A Tale o Two Citiesii. So I think I’m going to sing New York, New York iii, and ah, oh I lef My Heart in San Franciscoiii. ROSS: Ah Joey, I don’t think you get to pick the cities. JOEY: What? ROSS: Mr Mr.. Dickens Dic kensii gets to pick
Vocabulary
pickpocketing
A. pick a pocket / to pickpocket - to steal A. pick something valuable (money, (money, jewels, cell phones, etc) rom someone’s pocket or bag, especially as they carry the valuable objects around.
Pronunciation 1. Who’s in an audition WHO-zin-un-AW-DIH-SHUN
Broadway play
2. I want to say you: you: I-WANna-SAY-YOU 3. Pick them: them: PIK-em
Reerences i. Broadway (musical/theather) - Street located in Manhattan, New York. All o the many theatres loctated on these street are called Broadway theathres, as well as any perormance played there.
A Tale o Two Cities
them2. JOEY: Who? CHANDLER: I’ll get you the Cliff Notesiv . JOEY: Te what? CHANDLER: Te abridgment. JOEY: Oh, okay. (to Ross) Te what? JOEY: (singing (singing)) You’ve You’ve got to pick A
a pocket tssss, you’ve got to pick a pocket or two......
ii. A Tale o Two Cities (by Charles Dickens) - Written by English author Charles Dickens, A tale o two cities is a 1859 novel set in London and Paris during the French revolution. iii. New York, York, New York York / I Lef my Heart in San Fransisco - Very amous classic American songs by Frank Sinatra and ony Bennett. iv. Cliff Notes - A series o summarized, study iv. notes o longer literary works or complex topics. Also known as “Abridgements”
Cliff Notes
01:05 - 02:00 DIRECTOR: Lovely, just lovely. JOEY: Really? Tanks. DIRECTOR: Listen Joey, we definitely want to see you or the callback 1-A on Saturday. JOEY: Excellent, I’ll be there. DIRECTOR: Okay, and listen don’t orget to bring your jazz shoes for the dance audition. JOEY: Ahhh! My uh, my agent said it wasn’t a dancing part.
Vocabulary
callback
A. Callback - Te act o calling someone back, especially afer an interview. Callback is the noun version o the verb to call someone back. B. Background - One’s past educational
a piece o cake
preparation, likes, jobs, activities, pasttimes, etc. Your background is a combination of who you are (people rom Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries ofen conuse “profile” or this). C. A piece o cake - Really easy. >> Te
exam will be a piece o cake or Jack.
Pronunciation
1. We definitely want to see you or the DIRECTOR: Joey, all the roles got callback WE DEFINIT-LEE WAN-na SEE u f ir thuh to dance3 a little. But believe me CALLBACK with your dance backgroundB it’ll
be a piece o cakeC. [Scene: Chandler reading resuméii) CHANDLER: ....three years of modern dance with wila Tarp! Five years with the American Bal-
2. Forget to bring your jazz shoes F iR-GEH t uh BRIN-gyir JAZZ SHOOS
ballet
3. All the roles got to dance
ALL t uh ROLES gaw-d uh DANCE (“ALL” is generally unstressed, but here it’s said emphatically)
let4picTeater?! 4. Ballet - bA-lay (lay rhymes with day )
JOEY: Hey, everybody lies on their resumeii, okay. I wasn’t one of the Zoom Kidsi either. PHOEBE: Well, can you dance at all? JOEY: Yeah, I can dance, you know
Reerences i. Zoom kids - 1972 American V program or kids.
ii. Resumé - another word or CV (curricumul vítae) is used in other places.
Zoom Kids
02:00 - 03:04 CHANDLER: Oh no, no, no, no. PHOEBE: (covering her mouth in shock) What, what is that? JOEY: Sure, it looks stupid now, there’s no music playing.
(phone rings)
Vocabulary
stunned
A. (o something) To be off - In this case, i something is off, it won’t happen as it’s been canceled. B. Come on - We use this phrase to tell
someone to do something he or she is hesitating to do (which might be a favor we want them to do for us). Also, we can use it to tell someone to do something faster.
CHANDLER: I have to get that1, but no-no. (answering phone) Hello? DIRECTOR: Ah, Joey. Joey ribbiani. Listen Joey, I got a problem, I just got a call2 from my dance captain, he’s having a relationship crisis and can’t get out o Long Islandi3. JOEY: So, does that mean the audition is off A? DIRECTOR: Listen Joey, seeing as you’ve got the most experience, I want you4 to take these dancers and show them the combination. JOEY: What?! DIRECTOR: Aw Joey, come onB! it’s easy. Y’know, it’s hand, hand, head, head, (very quickly, Joey watches stunned C) up, pas de bouree, pas de bourreepic, big turn here, grand sissonepic, sissone, sissone, slide back, step, step, step, and jazz hands!
C. Stunned - In shocked; so surprised
you can’t react.
Pronunciation
pass de bourree
1. I have to get that - I -av t uh GET THAT 2. I just got a call - I jus gaw-d uh CALL 3. Can’t get out o long island KANNt GET au-d uhv LONG I-LIND (au rhymes with cow) 4. I want you - I WAN-chu
Reerences i. Long Island - New York City do extend into Long Island with Brooklyn and Queens actually orming the western end o ong Island
grand sissone
03:04 -
JOEY: It’s ah, step-ity, step and jazz handsA.
Vocabulary A. Jazz hands - Hands extended and palms toward the audience in a dancing perormance.
DIRECTOR: Have fun. JOEY: Bye. (does the jazz hands) DIRECTOR: All right, let’s do it!
(Te group does the same horrible dance that Joey did earlier in the show, except they’re all out of sync A and they do the jazz hands at the end.) DIRECTOR: No, no, no. What was that? JOEY: I know, it was the best I could get out o them1.
A. Synced / out o sync - sync is short or synchronization. We use this shorter version much more requently than the ull word. I someone is synced, it’s ordered, balanced or sequentially aligned. I it’s out o sync, it’s not ordered, or aligned. (below, picture o synchronised swimming )
DIRECTOR: Well, people! JOEY: People, people, people. DIRECTOR: Let’s try it again2, and this time let’s everybody watch Joey. (to Joey) Show them3 how it’s done. (to the pianist) Count it off.
(Te pianist starts to play, and Joey readies himsel, and then runs out o the audition.)
Pronunciation 1. It was the best I could get out o them its thuh BEST I kuhd GET oudda them 2. Try it again - TRY-ih-duh-GEN 3. Show them - SHOW-em
