I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.
BERNADETTE PETERSI’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 don’t smoke, I don’t drink much, I don’t eat red meat. I stay out of the sun.
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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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You’ve got to be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for?
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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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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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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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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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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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I’d like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
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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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It was like being high when you reach those high notes.
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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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