I love Some Enchanted Evening, and If I Loved You. And as I sing them more and more, I find new favorites.
BERNADETTE PETERSGeorge 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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The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of ‘Carousel’, and it was a very vivid experience.
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It Might As Well Be Spring… I used to sing that as a young girl in my voice lessons. Then I picked it up again and it spoke to me in a whole new way.
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Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.
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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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It was like being high when you reach those high notes.
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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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We’ve been listening to Wagner, which is so great.
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In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Anton Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!
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I’d like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
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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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I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.
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The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.
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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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No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.
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Animals speak with pure affection. It’s important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love.
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