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The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.

Bernadette Peters

I’d like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
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Glasses Menagerie Mother Play
Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.
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Animal Healing Important
The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.
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Bigs Broadway Firsts
Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.
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Body Lesson Singing
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
It was like being high when you reach those high notes.
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High Notes Notes
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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Careers Great Music Roles
I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.
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Accepted Feel Gay Marriage
George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we’d made a connection.
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Connections Day Minute One Rehearsal
I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.
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Kids Pasta Sauce
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
No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.
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Persons Sondheim Thinking
“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 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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Great Manager Thinking Way Years
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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Dear God Miss Missing Years
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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Careers Challenges Gay Woman

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