I’d like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
BERNADETTE PETERSI’d like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
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No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.
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I’ve been fortunate in my career to have performed in revivals of great musicals and to have originated roles in musicals that have in turn been revived. And I’m not dead!
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I don’t smoke, I don’t drink much, I don’t eat red meat. I stay out of the sun.
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When something isn’t done, you want to do something about it.
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The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of ‘Carousel’, and it was a very vivid experience.
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Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there’s great truth in the songs, and that’s what was so wonderful to find.
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The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.
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“Into the Woods” was… a lot of running around in the woods! I can’t wait to see the show again. People didn’t realize it back then, but kids still come up to me-young people-and they talk about it. It really made its mark.
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Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.
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I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.
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George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we’d made a connection.
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You’d look out and there’d be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were young people seeing the show for the first time. I stayed for two years because I enjoyed it so much.
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Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.
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It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men’s Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience.
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The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.
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