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.
BERNADETTE PETERSI 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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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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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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We’ve been listening to Wagner, which is so great.
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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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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’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 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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When something isn’t done, you want to do something about it.
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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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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 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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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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