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.
BERNADETTE PETERSThe first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of ‘Carousel’, and it was a very vivid experience.
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The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.
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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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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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“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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We’ve been listening to Wagner, which is so great.
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Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.
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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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No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.
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I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.
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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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The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of ‘Carousel’, and it was a very vivid experience.
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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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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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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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