When something isn’t done, you want to do something about it.
BERNADETTE PETERSThe first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of ‘Carousel’, and it was a very vivid experience.
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I lost a very dear friend who lived with AIDS for about 17 years. Rejecting early treatments that were iffy, he thought he saved himself. I really miss him a lot.
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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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I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.
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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’d like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
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When I grew up in the ’60s, your hair had to be straight and you had to be skinny and have no boobs, and it was like not my era.
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I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.
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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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The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.
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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’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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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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We’ve been listening to Wagner, which is so great.
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You’ve got to be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for?
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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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