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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!

Bernadette Peters

The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.
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Bigs Broadway Firsts
Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.
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Animal Healing Important
When something isn’t done, you want to do something about it.
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About Done Something Want
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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Enchanted Evening Favorites Loved
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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Baby Boys Enjoy Girl Much Young
“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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Kids Made Mark People Running Young
I’d like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
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Glasses Menagerie Mother Play
I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.
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Accepted Feel Gay Marriage
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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Girl Lesson Pick Spring Voice
It was like being high when you reach those high notes.
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High Notes Notes
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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Boobs Eras Hair Skinny Straight
You’ve got to be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for?
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Inspirational Needs Positivity
The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.
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Challenge Film Moving
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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Oscars Song Wonderful
Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.
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Body Lesson Singing
We’ve been listening to Wagner, which is so great.
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Listening Wagner

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’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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