The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.
BERNADETTE PETERSI 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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I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.
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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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Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.
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Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.
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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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“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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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’d like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
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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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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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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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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 know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.
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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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