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!
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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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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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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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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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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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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Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.
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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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When something isn’t done, you want to do something about it.
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The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.
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I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.
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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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“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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The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.
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Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.
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