The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.
BERNADETTE PETERSI 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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We’ve been listening to Wagner, which is so great.
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When something isn’t done, you want to do something about it.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.
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I’d like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
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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 love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.
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