Bernadette's Timeline

Gala.

Playbill article

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Musical to "Kinky Boots".

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Bernadette makes an appearance (in the gorgeous red gown).

Episodes "The Nominations" and "The Tonys"

Playbill summary

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Phenomenon" and sings a brief song in the show "Bombshell". She also may vie for a Tony Award with her daughter Ivy.

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the Isabelle Stevenson Award, for "substantial contribution of volunteered time and effort on behalf of one or more humanitarian, social service or charitable organizations."

Playbill article, April 30, 2012

Bernadette also appeared at the Awards ceremony, introducing a number from "Follies" ("Buddy's Blues").

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Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters will be honored with our 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award at the 63rd Annual Spring Luncheon tribute, to be held Thursday, May 24th at the New York Marriott Marquis."


New Dramatists 63rd Annual Spring Luncheon

Playbill article, May 24, 2012

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Night Music as Desiree, (officially on August 1, 2010), replacing Catherine Zeta-Jones. The musical closes on January 9, 2011.

Her reviews, with a few exceptions, are raves.

New York Times review

New York Post

Review roundup from broadwayworld.com

BWW TV First Look (Video, 05:40)

Diva Talk (playbill.com, July 23, 2010)

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the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical to David Hyde Pierce.

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in a Musical (to LaChanze "The Color Purple").

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Op’nin’ Another Show" from Kiss Me, Kate.

She presented the award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical to Norbert Leo Butz.

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the award for Best Revival of a Musical to Assassins, which has music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

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giving one of the greatest musical performances ever seen on television.Photo link: Rose's Turn

Bernadette earned her 7th Tony nomination for her potrayal of Rose in the 2003 Gypsy revival. The winner was Marisa Jaret Winokur (Hairspray). The other nominees were Melissa Errico (Amour), Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (Man of La Mancha revival) and Elizabeth Parkinson (Movin' Out). Chita Rivera kept her distance in the Best Featured/Supporting category.

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for her performance as Mama Rose in Gypsy.

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Awards ceremony with Gregory Hines. It was held at Radio City Music Hall and broadcast on CBS.Photo link: 2002 Tonys

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of a Musical to 42nd Street.

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Bernadette and Michael

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Musical to Contact.

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role as Annie Oakley in the revival of "Annie Get Your Gun".

The other nominees in the Best Actress (Musical) category were Carolee Carmello (Parade), Dee Hoty (Footloose), and Sian Phillips (Marlene, a musical about Marlene Dietrich)

Photo link: Bernadette as Annie Oakley

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in musical theatre" from Emerson College in Boston.

From the Boston Globe, 4/24/97:
"Tony-Award winning actress Bernadette Peters received an Award of Distinction from the Musical Theatre Society of Emerson College last night. She was honored after the opening night of "Fame, The Musical," performed by the Society and Emerson Stage."

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for her 5th Tony (The Goodbye Girl). The bad news is...Chita Rivera has made a much trumpeted "return" (it's not a comeback) to Broadway in Kiss of the Spider Woman.
Her fellow nominees are Ann Crumb in Anna Karenina, who resists throwing herself under a train and goes on to play Rose in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Aspects of Love Broadway production, and Stephanie Lawrence in Blood Brothers, who is taken from us much too soon in November 2000.




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short- lived Carol Burnett variety series on CBS. The other guest was Tony Roberts. Highlights included the song "I'm Flying" and the skit "I-90 Diner."


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in a Musical to Joanna Gleason. The two co-starred in Into the Woods.

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a memorial tribute to her late Mack & Mabel co-star, Robert Preston. Mary Martin and Barbara Cook also took part in the tribute at the 41st Annual Tony Awards (1987) held at the Mark Hellinger Theatre and broadcast live on CBS.


youtube 1987 Tony Awards Tribute to Preston

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role as Emma in Song and Dance.

The other nominees were Debbie Allen (Sweet Charity revival) and Cleo Lane (The Mystery of Edwin Drood). And...they meet again! Chita Rivera was also nominated for Jerry's Girls (a Jerry Herman revue).



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(Dot in Sunday in the Park With George), but it was Chita Rivera's night for her role in The Rink.

Her fellow honored just to be nominees? Liza Minnelli in The Rink and Rhetta Hughes in Amen Corner.



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musical salute to the Beatles broadcast on NBC. Other guests included Diahann Carroll, Ray Charles, Anthony Newley, and Tony Randall.

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Yankee Doodle To Ragtime," a 2 hour variety special saluting traditional American songs, broadcast on CBS. Her co-hosts were Tony Randall, Jason Robards, Jean Stapleton, and Flip Wilson. The show was co-written and co-produced by Goddard Lieberson.

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Again, Out Again" of this short lived Tony Curtis crime drama, a rotating installment of the NBC Sunday Mystery Movie. She played the role of Brenda, a reporter who disguises herself as German femme fatale "Ilsa" as part of a scheme.

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this time in the Best Actress (Musical) category.

Angela Lansbury won for her role as Rose in Gypsy (revival). The other nominees were Lola Falana in Doctor Jazz and Ann Reinking in Goodtime Charley.

(Assuming that nominations were announced in May.)

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the week of May 27-31, along with Tony Roberts on this ABC daytime game show (recently moved from CBS) hosted by Dick Clark.

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comedy special (?) broadcast as part of the rotating 1970s late-night schedule on ABC known under the umbrella title Wide World Of Entertainment. Others in the cast included Bruce Davison, Dennis Allen, and Tony Holland.


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Best Supporting or Featured Actress category (On the Town).

The winner was Linda Hopkins (New Orleans native born in 1925-her next nomination would not come until 1989 for Black and Blue) for her role in Inner City. The other nominees were Adrienne Barbeau in Grease (Rizzo) and Beatrice Winde in Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death.

(Assuming that the nominations were announced in May.)

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