Like the previous Potter books, “Phoenix” has been kept under lock and key, if not armed guard – though a few books seem to have tumbled off trucks along the way. Not that Dale – the British actor who razzle-dazzled ’em on Broadway years ago in “Barnum” – has ever heard any of the tapes. The way the wizards at Random House Audio Books figure it, if you started listening to it at the George Washington Bridge, drove 55 mph and didn’t hit traffic, you’d be pulling into South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore park when it ended. The audiobook – due out Saturday, the same day as the book – took more than 145 hours to record it uses 17 cassettes (and 23 compact discs) and takes 26½ hours to listen to. “We started recording without knowing how certain words would be pronounced,” Dale says, “so when we finally found out, we had to re-record them.” “I’m the voice of Harry Potter,” Dale told The Post the other day – and if that voice sounded husky, no wonder: He’d recently finished taping “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” all 896 pages and 134 characters of it.Įven after the taping began, on April 7 – the manuscript having arrived in New York a few days before – Rowling was still tweaking the book, “a word here, a word there.” Rowling’s series ever since they started turning out the audiobooks. HE speaks for Harry – and Hermione, Ron and everyone at Hogwarts.įact is, Jim Dale has spoken for every character in every one of J.K.
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