The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of ‘Carousel’, and it was a very vivid experience.
BERNADETTE PETERSSinging lessons are like body building for your larynx.
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The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.
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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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It was like being high when you reach those high notes.
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Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.
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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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Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.
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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 love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.
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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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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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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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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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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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You’ve got to be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for?
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