[Yakko]

Okay I just got this role for the towns halloween show and I need help on developing this character and if your wondering no I WILL not make any attempt to ever copy Timothy Spall, but I just need any advice and what is vocal range for the character(I'm kinda a baritone)

[Brunnhilde]

Beadle needs a tenor, or even a countertenor... he has some extremely high notes. But in the movie, he had neither Parlor Songs nor the Final Ballad... these are the critical points.

[Anita4ever]

Whatever you do, please don't copy the movie. The Beadle is NOT Cockney and shouldn't be played like a lecherous old man. He's an authority figure, responsible for keeping the peace and doing the Judge's bidding. He has his comedic moments, but you have to be able to take him seriously.

[Salome]

acvtually most Beadles were very cockney.they were lower officials..Mr. Bumble in OLiver is in fact a cockney as well.

I found Timothy Spall's perofrmance as Beadle to be completely brillaint. His lecherousness almost equalleed the Judge's which it should. He also raped lucy with the Judge dont forget.


My only regret with the film's Bedle is they cut the 2nd half of Ladies in their Sensitivites and "parlor Songs" since Spall was one of the only trained singers in the film.

[Yakko]

As I said I will NOT copy Timthony Spall for my character and as for me being baritone I can hit falsetto notes decently and he does quite a lot of that. I just want the best interpretation for the charcter because hew can go to many directions

[TychoBrahe]

Bamford is a very "respectable" public figure. Remember that. He always does what he can for his friends and neighbors. He is the worst sort of hypocrite. He is polished for all the world to see, but, of course, in reality he is horrible. Also note that section about hugs and kisses. I always wondered if that implied molestation/incest.

[Monsieur D'Arque]

No, it's a reference to just how much of a wolf in sheep's clothing he is. To his family and his friends, he's the picture of respectability and goodness. The fact that he's a brute, a rapist and possibly a murderer "in the name of law" is his little secret.

Just like Tony Soprano- loving, church-going Italian Catholic, except he's a mobster.

[Barberous]

With regard to the Beadle's class/accent, I read somewhere that his use of the phrase "they resents it" can be played as him giving himself away momentarily as belonging to a lower class than he pretends to belong to, by slipping into his natural lower-class speech patterns, or something. That's the rationalisation, anyway...

I don't remember the hugs and kisses bit, what was that about?

[Luc]

[Yakko]

But is he as corrupted as Turpin or worse?

[Vice]

[Yakko]

So Beadle is comparable to Polonius, who is pretty much a suck up?

[Salome]

Beale is even more corrupt than Polonius and more withing his own wits.

[Vice]

[Jennifer Lynn]

I guess that all depends on how you view Polonius...he's been played as a knowingly corrupt toady to the King and as a genuinely concerned, more or less harmless windbag.

Isn't it funny how Timothy Spall always ends up being the villain's toady? Harry Potter, Enchanted, and now this!

[Salome]

although some of his best roles were non-toady parts in Gothic and Topsy-Turvy.

[Yakko]

And in Hamlet.