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Karen
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5/3/2002 | posted: 8/23/2004 at 8:23:06 PM ET
Oh, I know. I completely understood and saw exactly what you meant. I thought your post was very funny and spot-on. It's just that then I ended up inspired to go off on a serious tangent. I'm just weird that way.
| jmslsu01
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northern VA | posted: 8/23/2004 at 8:25:26 PM ET
Karen-
Okay. I just dashed that post off in a hurry.
 I'm happy that you didn't think I was serious. You scared me for a minute. I was like "Wait...." If that scenario had been presented to me in reality,I would have been horrified.
Jenn
|  Sister Rose
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Okay - I have the story idea for Bernadette's Law & Order episode: She is a Broadway star who kills the librettist of her newest production (the librettist can be somebody we all know); Jack McCoy works his famous cross-examine but fails to convict!
LOL
"Anyone who stays home is DEAD!"
|  Jean
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6/7/2003 | posted: 8/24/2004 at 5:58:11 PM ET
Sister Rose, I'm plotting out your scenario, but I've got to tell you, it looks like she was framed! By the costume designer. But more on that later.
2 new roles:
1)Little Women--Marmee-just one of my favorite movies /stories, and I think she's ready for this role;
2) Guys and Dolls--Sarah Brown--yes, I know what you're all thinking, but just hum along with me, in the key of Bernadette: "I'll Know", "If I Were a Bell", and most of all, "I've Never Been in Love Before". I can actually hear her singing these, and am totally carried away.
{Sister Rose, as a side note did you know that the famous Broadway star has an equally famous friend -a writer, no less-from Cabot's Cove, Maine, who will fly to NY to "Open a new window,
Open a new door,
Travel a new highway,
That's never been tried before;"
and help her dear friend out.}
| Karen
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5/3/2002 | posted: 8/24/2004 at 8:47:33 PM ET
"If I Were a Bell" is one of my favorite songs--I've been wishing forever that Bernadette would sing it. Since you mentioned it, I just went and listened to three versions: Isabel Bigley, Jean Simmons, and Blossom Dearie. They're all exhilarating, but Bernadette would be the best, I'm positive!
I like your other ideas too.
|  Mandy
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8/14/2003 | posted: 8/24/2004 at 8:59:58 PM ET
Ahh...Jean, I think we may have convinced you that this "bad girl" routine could be a good one...and lots of fun to imagine!
~Mandy
"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!" BP
| Karen
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5/3/2002 | posted: 8/24/2004 at 9:16:46 PM ET
Yeah, but Jean has her as the framed innocent, which is a little bit different.
| Mandy
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8/14/2003 | posted: 8/24/2004 at 9:31:26 PM ET
I'll give her some more time...she'll come around  She just HAS to be the bad one....I'd hate to see her the victim.
...the Jessica Fletcher addition could be interesting as well!
~Mandy
"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!" BP
| futuremamarose87
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5/3/2004 | posted: 8/24/2004 at 10:03:55 PM ET
I can DEFINITELY hear Bernadette singing "I've Never Been In Love Before" ... omg.... i would love a recording of her singing that!!!!
"It was like being high when you reach those high notes."
~Bernadette Peters
| Karen
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5/3/2002 | posted: 8/24/2004 at 10:38:36 PM ET
Speaking of Guys and Dolls, I suddenly remembered, wasn't Bernadette rumored to have possibly been going into the cast of the 1992 revival--the one that ended up with Nathan Lane, Faith Prince, etc. I don't know if those were just wild speculations, or if they had any substance. I had sort of forgotten about that until now.
| PTM
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6/26/2003 | posted: 8/24/2004 at 11:17:20 PM ET
Yeah I remember reading in Playbill or maybe Theater Week back then that she was offered either role in the Guys and Dolls revival. But did Marty Bell refute that in his book Broadway Stories? Also think I remember reading that people wanted her for, or she was offerd or reading the script of everything from Aspects of Love, Anything Goes, Blood Brothers, to Chicago, Threepenny Opera, and Ziegfeld.
PTM
| Karen
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5/3/2002 | posted: 8/24/2004 at 11:33:23 PM ET
Bernadette should be in everything!
Hey PTM, where have you been? Good to hear from you!
| BPfan11
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Rhode Island | posted: 8/24/2004 at 11:45:26 PM ET
Agreed that Bernadette should be in everything!
Here's another "game": (kind of OT, sorry)
Find a really good excuse I can tell my college tennis coach as to why I have to miss the most important match of the season to see Bernadette Peters in concert... and it can't be the fact that I want to see a concert!
| PTM
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6/26/2003 | posted: 8/25/2004 at 12:20:51 AM ET
Hi Karen,
I've been checking in but just haven't had time to post lately. One of my little furry friends had to have surgery but she's all better now.
PTM
| Jean
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6/7/2003 | posted: 8/25/2004 at 7:51:32 AM ET
Well, advocates of BP as a "bad girl", the lady herself has spoken:
"It [the movie Impromptu]was a very different kind of role for me," she said. "I wasn't a nice girl.
I was vindictive and jealous, a little neurotic. I loved it. I've done more
drama lately. I just played a dying woman for TV. Maybe I should try Tennessee
Williams, or a Chekhov here and there. I've done a wide variety of things and
I've learned from them all and that's what counts for me. My best thing is going
to come next, always."
(Nov. 1991, Minnesota Star Tribune)
OK, ok.
| Jean
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6/7/2003 | posted: 8/25/2004 at 8:30:34 AM ET
And on the subject of being offered a variety of roles, again from the Minnesota Star-Tribune, Nov. 1991:
"Perhaps gun-shy after the number of clinkers she has tried to buoy up, Peters is pretty much concentrating on her one-woman show now. "I've had nothing come to me that interests me enough to do eight shows a week," she said. "I can't really explain definitely what I'm looking for. A great role in a great script with great music. Maybe in 10 or 15 years I'll do a revival of 'Gypsy.' "
Wow. 12 years later.
I wonder if she wasn't just plain tired, after all those movies -what, 5 or so 1988-1990.
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