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 Jean
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6/7/2003 | posted: 3/11/2004 at 6:06:41 PM ET
This is from the Webmaster at the Gypsy forum:
"GYPSY’S BERNADETTE PETERS TO BE FEATURED ON NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO’S “WEEKEND EDITION” SATURDAY, MARCH 13 8:40 AM (EST)
Two-time Tony® Award winner Bernadette Peters will be featured on National Public Radio’s “Weekend Edition” on Saturday, March 13 at approximately 8:40 AM (EST).
“Weekend Edition” airs in the New York area on WNYC 93.9."
There's more that I didn't copy.
| jmslsu01
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northern VA | posted: 3/12/2004 at 11:35:56 AM ET
Keep in mind that local NPR stations may not air Weekend Edition at the same time as others. If you're not sure of your local NPR frequencies and/or when Weekend Edition airs in your area, go to http://www.npr.org/wheretohear/index.php?prgId=7&selStates=AL
(the page is called "When is it On") and select your state-Alabama is the default setting- and "Weekend Edition-Saturday." Make sure you choose Saturday,because there is a Weekend Edition for Sunday.
If you miss Bernadette's segment,you may be able to hear it when the show is placed in the website's archives. However,I am not sure to what extent the shows are made available on the website,so use this option with caution.
For those outside the United States-some NPR stations have a live stream on their website.
If you have access to the Lexis-Nexis database,the text transcripts of several NPR's news are usually archived. I've noticed Fresh Air,for example. However,I don't know how soon it will be available.
Jenn
| Jean
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6/7/2003 | posted: 3/12/2004 at 11:46:01 AM ET
Oh, thanks--it's all kind of complicated but this is just what we need...(how the h#&* do you know so much??; oh that's right, are you still Madame Librarian?)
|  PA Fan
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11/6/2003 | posted: 3/12/2004 at 4:11:28 PM ET
From Playbill Diva News......
"And, finally, two-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters — currently starring in the acclaimed revival of Gypsy at the Shubert Theatre — will chat about her stage role and her work as an animal advocate March 13. Peters will be featured on National Public Radio's "Weekend Edition." The award-winning actress-singer is scheduled to appear at 8:40 AM ET; the program airs in the metropolitan area on WNYC 93.9 FM."
| Karen
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5/3/2002 | posted: 3/13/2004 at 9:47:04 AM ET
Good interview with Scott Simon. The last time she was on was two years ago when she spoke with Susan Stamberg about the R&H CD. I liked the way she said "it's very psychological so that's about all I can reveal". If all celebrities thought that way, the entire gossip industry would collapse.
| jmslsu01
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northern VA | posted: 3/13/2004 at 10:40:03 AM ET
For those that missed the interview,the audio archive on NPR's site will be available at 1 PM EST. It looks like it will be the full archive.
Jean-this May I will be official!
Jenn
| Jean
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6/7/2003 | posted: 3/13/2004 at 11:01:53 AM ET
Jenn-great!
And, thanks to Jenn, I was able to listen to the interview via my computer. (I'm in some kind of dead radio zone, where I can get just a few stations weakly but most not at all.)
One of the things I like most about Bernadette (yeah, yeah, she's almost super-humanly talented and a strikingly beautiful woman, too) is that she keeps some of herself for herself. I like a little air of "that's not for you to know" mystery.
Jean
| BroadwayBabyGal
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5/8/2003 | posted: 3/13/2004 at 11:03:17 AM ET
Will I be able to hear the show on the npr website? I missed it.
~*Jessica*~
|  Rose
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Fav. BP Song: No One Is Alone and Some People
Fav. BP Show: Gypsy
Fav. BP Character: Rose/The Witch
Fav. BP CD: Gypsy
| posted: 3/13/2004 at 3:21:00 PM ET
What did she talk about?
"Oh no, you won't. No, not a chance. No arguements, shut up and dance."
| Karen
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5/3/2002 | posted: 3/13/2004 at 5:03:34 PM ET
Here's a brief synopsis. Scott Simon interviewed Bernadette in her dressing room at the Schubert. He started by going over her childhood involvement with the show, scrambling a few facts as they always seem to do. His first question was whether it was hard to get Merman/Russell/Lansbury/Daly out of her mind. She said no, they were never really in her mind, because she toured with McCarty and Green. She said her performance came from a whole different place, and that she basically started from the ground up to explore why this woman was the way she was. She talked about how deep the script was and how much there was to mine for her and for all the other actors as well. Then he asked if she saw Rose as a sympathetic character. She said yes, that she was someone who tortured herself, looking desperately for approval. She was driven throughout life by the event of her own mother's abandonment of her. She justifies her actions by her bitterness over her own life being wasted and by her three unsuccessful marriages. In her mind she thinks she's saving her daughters from a similar fate. Then Simon asked to what degree she based her interpretation on her own mother. She said the performance came out of her own life and needs, but that she sometimes brought aspects of her mother in. She said her mother's father died at 40, and that she never thought she had much time in life (she died at 69), so she was always running around trying to squueze as much as she could out of life due to her sense of mortality. Bernadette described Rose as a life-changing role and said that she had learned so much about herself. Simon asked what, and she paused and then said that her capacity for love and her capacity for anger both came up. Rose is very angry and very desperate. That's when she said "it's very psychological, that's about it that I can think of to reveal". Finally he mentioned how startlingly different from Merman was her rendition of Everything's Coming Up Roses. She said that in going over the music, the song for her was not about getting together and moving forward, but about a desperate, needy woman trying to prove herself despite being rejected. And then, all too soon as usual, the interview was over. Listening to Bernadette speak, I'm always struck by what a thoughtful, articulate person she is. She really is extremely intelligent.
| jmslsu01
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northern VA | posted: 3/13/2004 at 6:27:33 PM ET
Jessica-
Go here:
http://www.npr.org/archives/
The link will take you to the archives page. Type in Bernadette's name,then select "last seven days" in the second box,then select "Weekend Edition-Saturday" in the third box.
You will have the option of listening to the interview through Real Player or Windows Media. Click on the first story ("A Life Changing ..."). I'm sure there's a link to download one of the players on one of the pages-I didn't look.
Jenn
| BroadwayBabyGal
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5/8/2003 | posted: 3/13/2004 at 6:50:06 PM ET
Thanks. That was a great interview. I just wish it could have been longer.
~*Jessica*~
|  Mandy
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8/14/2003 | posted: 3/13/2004 at 7:00:13 PM ET
I have to say that I was glad that when Bernadette stated that she has really learned a lot about herself since doing this role that the interviewer asked her to explain herself a little. I've heard her mention on many interviews that she has learned so much and this was the first interviewer who actually listened and realized that her response begged him to ask "Well what have you learned about yourself." I've been waiting to here what she has learned about herself since the show started. Finally, someone actually listened to her answers and based the next question on her answer and not the next question on his/her question sheet.
Just an observation!
~Mandy
"You gotta be original, because if you're like somebody else, what do they need you for?" BP
| jmslsu01
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northern VA | posted: 3/14/2004 at 2:26:15 PM ET
Scott Simon and Terry Gross (Fresh Air)are some of the best-if not the best-interviewers on NPR. No matter who they're interviewing or what they're discussing,I always find their programs fascinating (and NPR always acknowledges their librarians and has great internships,just FYI!).
Jenn,counting the days until comps and graduation. Job hunting is so much fun!
|  leebee
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| posted: 3/17/2004 at 5:19:43 PM ET
Thank you for posting that! That was the very same day that I saw Gypsy for the first time, and we also got to meet up with Bernadette afterwards and get some autographs. She was very sweet and it was fun to hear her talk with the other fans too.
Superb interview - so glad I got to hear that. I hope we can make it up to the city to see Gypsy again, it was spectacular.
| PTM
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6/26/2003 | posted: 3/17/2004 at 11:23:34 PM ET
Jean - I agree about her keeping things to herself. It's very refreshing and keeps her interesting in this day and age of Celebrity tell alls, reality TV, and Hollwood true confession excess. I think one interviewer summed it up nicely when he said, "Perhaps her deft avoidance of the darker corners explains Peters' edge of mystery, of something held in abeyance. In the nicest way, she's in charge."
PTM
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