00:00 - 01:05
JOEY: Yes! Guess who’s in an au-
dition1 for a Broadwayi musical?
CHANDLER: I want to say you2,
but it seems like such an easy an-
swer.
JOEY: It is me! It’s a musical ver-
sion of A Tale of Two Citiesii. So I
think I’m going to sing New York,
New Yorkiii, and ah, oh I left My
Heart in San Franciscoiii.
ROSS: Ah Joey, I don’t think you
get to pick the cities.
JOEY: What?
ROSS: Mr. Dickensii gets to pick
them2.
JOEY: Who?
CHANDLER: I’ll get you the Cliff
Notesiv.
JOEY: The what?
CHANDLER: The abridgment.
JOEY: Oh, okay. (to Ross) The
what?
JOEY: (singing) You’ve got to pick
a pocketA tssss, you’ve got to pick a notes of longer literary works or complex topics.
pocket or two......
Vocabulary pickpocketing
A. pick a pocket / to pickpocket - to steal
something valuable (money, jewels, cell
phones, etc) from someone’s pocket or bag,
especially as they carry the valuable objects
around.
Pronunciation
1. Who’s in an audition Broadway play
WHO-zin-un-AW-DIH-SHUN
2. I want to say you: I-WANna-SAY-YOU
3. Pick them: PIK-em
References
i. Broadway (musical/theather) - Street locat- A Tale of Two
ed in Manhattan, New York. All of the many Cities
theatres loctated on these street are called
Broadway theathres, as well as any performance
played there.
ii. A Tale of Two Cities (by Charles Dickens)
- Written by English author Charles Dickens, A Cliff Notes
tale of two cities is a 1859 novel set in London
and Paris during the French revolution.
iii. New York, New York / I Left my Heart in
San Fransisco - Very famous classic American
songs by Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett.
iv. Cliff Notes - A series of summarized, study
Also known as “Abridgements”
 01:05 - 02:00
DIRECTOR: Lovely, just lovely.
JOEY: Really? Thanks.
DIRECTOR: Listen Joey, we defi-
nitely want to see you for the
callback1-A on Saturday.
JOEY: Excellent, I’ll be there.
DIRECTOR: Okay, and listen
don’t forget to bring your jazz
shoes for the dance audition.
JOEY: Ahhh! My uh, my agent said
it wasn’t a dancing part.
DIRECTOR: Joey, all the roles got callback
to dance3 a little. But believe me
with your dance backgroundB it’ll
be a piece of cakeC.
[Scene: Chandler reading resumé ) ii
CHANDLER: ....three years of
modern dance with Twila Tharp!
Five years with the American Bal-
let4picTheater?!
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
Vocabulary
callback
A. Callback - The act of calling someone
back, especially after an interview. Call-
back is the noun version of the verb to call
someone back.
B. Background - One’s past educational a piece of cake
preparation, likes, jobs, activities, past-
times, etc. Your background is a com-
bination of who you are (people from
Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries
often confuse “profile” for this).
C. A piece of cake - Really easy. >> The
exam will be a piece of cake for Jack.
Pronunciation
1. We definitely want to see you for the
WE DEFINIT-LEE WAN-na SEE u fir thuh
CALLBACK
2. Forget to bring your jazz shoes
FiR-GEH tuh BRIN-gyir JAZZ SHOOS
ballet
3. All the roles got to dance
ALL tuh ROLES gaw-duh DANCE
(“ALL” is generally unstressed, but here it’s
said emphatically)
4. Ballet - bA-lay (lay rhymes with day)
References
Zoom Kids
i. Zoom kids - 1972 American TV program
for kids.
ii. Resumé - another word for CV (curricu-
mul vítae) is used in other places.

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)
CHANDLER: I have to get that1,
but no-no. (answering phone)
Hello?
Vocabulary
stunned
A. (of something) To be off - In this case,
if 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.

DIRECTOR: Ah, Joey. Joey Trib-

biani. Listen Joey, I got a problem,
I just got a call2 from my dance C. Stunned - In shocked; so surprised
captain, he’s having a relationship you can’t react.
crisis and can’t get out of Long pass de bourree
Islandi3. Pronunciation

JOEY: So, does that mean the audi- 1. I have to get that - I -av tuh GET THAT
tion is offA?
2. I just got a call - I jus gaw-duh CALL
DIRECTOR: Listen Joey, seeing
3. Can’t get out of long island
as you’ve got the most experience,
KANNt GET au-duhv LONG I-LIND
I want you4 to take these dancers
(au rhymes with cow)
and show them the combination.
4. I want you - I WAN-chu grand sissone
JOEY: What?!
References
DIRECTOR: Aw Joey, come on ! B
i. Long Island - New York City do extend into
it’s easy. Y’know, it’s hand, hand,
Long Island with Brooklyn and Queens actually
head, head, (very quickly, Joey forming the western end of ong Island
watches stunnedC) up, pas de
bouree, pas de bourreepic, big turn
here, grand sissonepic, sissone,
sissone, slide back, step, step, step,
and jazz hands!
 Vocabulary
03:04 -
JOEY: It’s ah, step-ity, step and A. Jazz hands - Hands extended and
jazz handsA. palms toward the audience in a dancing
performance.
DIRECTOR: Have fun.

JOEY: Bye. (does the jazz hands)

DIRECTOR: All right, let’s do it!

(The group does the same horrible

dance that Joey did earlier in the
show, except they’re all out of
syncA and they do the jazz hands
at the end.)
A. Synced / out of sync - sync is short for
DIRECTOR: No, no, no. What synchronization. We use this shorter ver-
was that? sion much more frequently than the full
word. If someone is synced, it’s ordered,
JOEY: I know, it was the best I balanced or sequentially aligned. If it’s out
could get out of them1. of sync, it’s not ordered, or aligned. (below,
picture of 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. Pronunciation
1. It was the best I could get out of them
(The pianist starts to play, and its thuh BEST I kuhd GET oudda them
Joey readies himself, and then runs
out of the audition.) 2. Try it again - TRY-ih-duh-GEN

3. Show them - SHOW-em