I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.
BERNADETTE PETERSI’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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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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No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.
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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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When something isn’t done, you want to do something about it.
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I’d like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
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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 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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The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.
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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 don’t smoke, I don’t drink much, I don’t eat red meat. I stay out of the sun.
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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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Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.
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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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