I’ve been on stage since I was 7. That’s where I’d rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn’t mean you are a bunch of things.
BEBE NEUWIRTHI’ve been on stage since I was 7. That’s where I’d rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn’t mean you are a bunch of things.
BEBE NEUWIRTHI’m not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It’s just not who I am.
BEBE NEUWIRTHPart of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.
BEBE NEUWIRTHI’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
BEBE NEUWIRTHI have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper,
BEBE NEUWIRTHCreating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.
BEBE NEUWIRTHWhen you’re a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.
BEBE NEUWIRTHI can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
BEBE NEUWIRTHPeople are at their happiest if they are true to themselves.
BEBE NEUWIRTHThere was one person [opening] the door with a butter knife and another person kicking the door in so I could get a photo. He’s decapitated, but totally nude. And he’s really well-endowed.
BEBE NEUWIRTHOn the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
BEBE NEUWIRTHI’ve never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
BEBE NEUWIRTHI was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
BEBE NEUWIRTHShakespeare feels very natural to me.
BEBE NEUWIRTHMy audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
BEBE NEUWIRTHI really loved Kelsey [Grammer]. It wasn’t a romantic love, but there was something about him. It’s very difficult to see someone you care about having a hard time.
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