I love Some Enchanted Evening, and If I Loved You. And as I sing them more and more, I find new favorites.
BERNADETTE PETERSWe’ve been listening to Wagner, which is so great.
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It was like being high when you reach those high notes.
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We’ve been listening to Wagner, which is so great.
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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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You’ve got to be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for?
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I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.
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I’d like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
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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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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’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 know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.
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I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.
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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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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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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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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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