No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.
BERNADETTE PETERSIt 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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The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.
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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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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 think my manager of 30-some odd years now, Tom Hammond. He’s as fine a person as you could ever meet. And he’s had great theatrical taste and has influenced me that way.
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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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The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.
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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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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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It was like being high when you reach those high notes.
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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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We’ve been listening to Wagner, which is so great.
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I’d like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
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I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.
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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 Some Enchanted Evening, and If I Loved You. And as I sing them more and more, I find new favorites.
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