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The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.

Bernadette Peters

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
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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Gay Knowing Men Money Race
The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.
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Bigs Broadway Firsts
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 love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.
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Kids Pasta Sauce
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
It was like being high when you reach those high notes.
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High Notes Notes
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
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
We’ve been listening to Wagner, which is so great.
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Listening Wagner
I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.
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Accepted Feel Gay Marriage
I’d like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
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Glasses Menagerie Mother Play
The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of ‘Carousel’, and it was a very vivid experience.
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Broadway Firsts Vivid
When something isn’t done, you want to do something about it.
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About Done Something Want
Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.
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Body Lesson Singing
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

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