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 Mandy
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8/14/2003 | posted: 7/25/2005 at 9:44:22 AM ET
I can't tell if this was mentioned before or not but the Angel Records website has the first 3 songs in their entirety on the website including the "talk" in between when she was "out of breath." Very Cute!
If this is a repeat post, sorry. I had only noticed the clips before, not the entire songs.
First 3 songs
"Let's admit one thing right upfront: With the possible exception of Bernadette Peters, not everyone stays young and cute forever." (NYPost 2/2/05)
|  Christine-NYC
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Fav. BP Song: With So Little to be Sure Of
Fav. BP Show: Gypsy
Fav. BP Character: Marie (insert last name) lol There's a few
Fav. BP CD: Bernadette Peters Loves Rogers and Hammerstein
| posted: 7/25/2005 at 2:26:27 PM ET
*Listening to it now* thank you for that link.  It makes me quite happy.
I can't wait for next week!
I probably should have ordered online with the hopes of getting it earlier, but alas, I will buy it in the store because there is something so exciting about going into a large music store and seeing many copies of a new Bernadette CD, and then walking out with one in your hand.
<3CMH<3
|  GYPSY1527
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Fav. BP Song: With So Little to be Sure of
Fav. BP Show: Gypsy
Fav. BP Character: Dot
Fav. BP CD: Sondheim Ect.
| posted: 7/25/2005 at 4:06:41 PM ET
OMG! I am absolutley in love with it! Thanks so much! The new layout for the website is great and I love the pictures that accompany the three extra songs. GORGEOUS!!!
|  ANH
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Fav. BP Show: Gypsy
Fav. BP Song: Unexpected Song
| posted: 7/25/2005 at 7:03:06 PM ET
Thanks, Mandy! Those are awesome!
| daedreams
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6/21/2002 | posted: 7/25/2005 at 11:10:37 PM ET
just to let y'all know...if you live near a best buy stroe they are planning on having the cd aug 2nd but not sure of how many
"beauty belongs to those who believe in the power of their dreams" eleanor rosevelt
| Christine-NYC
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Fav. BP Song: With So Little to be Sure Of
Fav. BP Show: Gypsy
Fav. BP Character: Marie (insert last name) lol There's a few
Fav. BP CD: Bernadette Peters Loves Rogers and Hammerstein
| posted: 7/26/2005 at 1:28:36 PM ET
lol I like when she says, "No false advertising here."  I think we all know what she was talking about.
<3CMH<3
| Anonymous
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What was she talking about with false advertising?
|  Carmen
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Thanks SOOOOOO much Mandy! I can't wait for the album to hit the stores! Mandy, you're my hero!
~Carmen~
|  Jean
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6/7/2003 | posted: 7/29/2005 at 2:12:38 PM ET
http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=515851
"Bernadette Peters stands as the foremost musical-theatre diva of her generation, one who continues to appear in substantial runs of Broadway musicals..."
A nice bouquet from Ken Mandelbaum @broadway.com.
| PTM
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6/26/2003 | posted: 8/2/2005 at 12:22:15 AM ET
Here's the text of Mandelbaum's review of the actual concert which appeared in the Dec. 30, 1996 issue of Theater Week:
"Whenever I'm in the presence of Bernadette Peters, I'm conviced that she is the most talented and irresistible musical theater lady of her generation. Without a dishonest bone in her body, she is incapable of a false gesture or phony mannerism. She remains unbelievable looking at an age when stars used to (and sometimes still do) begin to show their age. And her skills as singer, actress, and all-around performer seem to me pretty much impeccable.
Her eveing at Carnegie Hall on December 9 - a benefit for GMHC - saw her in adventurous and triumphant form. The first half of her very generous program included many of her standards ("We're in the the Money," Broadway Baby," "If You Were the Only Boy in the World," "Unexpected Song"), which she manages to keep fresh and smart. She happily included the legendary "Making Love Alone" which she introduced a decade or two ago on Saturday Night Live, and closed Act One with three stunners from musicals in which she has appeared: "Time Heals Everything" from Mack and Mabel was as potent as ever, but more unexpected was her reprise of Dames at Sea's Raining in My Heart," joined in the latter by four men in raincoasts and sporting umbrellas. The bow-off was an electrifying "Some People," a number she said she watched every night from the wings when she was a child touring in the national company of Gypsy.
Although Act One included "Sooner or Later" and "No One is Alone," the second act was devoted entirely to the work of Stephen Sondehim, who stood for a bow and quick mutual love fest with the star. There were songs she had already sung at Carnegie Hall:"There Won't Be Trumpets" and "With So Little To Be Sure Of" reprised from the GMHC Anyone Can Whistle concert, and "Not a Day Goes By" from the Sondehim Tribute. There were highly imaginative arrangements of "Happiness," "Johanna," "Later," "Hello Little Girl," and "You Could Drive a Person Crazy." The last Sondheim number was "Move On," thrilling as always, but the penultimate one, "Being Alive," was the evening's biggest surprise, a very familiar song in an overhwelming rendition that merited the standing ovation it received.
Peters closed by sitting over the edge of the stage to sing a song introduced by a star famous for doing likewise at Carnegie, "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," and Peters even saw to it that everyone received a Christmas ornament bearing the inscription "Love, Bernadette" on the way out. There were no guest stars, but guests are not necessary when your star is plain perfection.
PTM
| PTM
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6/26/2003 | posted: 8/2/2005 at 1:09:25 AM ET
For those who want to put their two CDs together to recreate the evening, here was the running order that night:
Overture
Money / Pennies
If You Were the Only Boy
Broadway Baby
No One Is Alone
Sooner or Later
Unexpected Song
Making Love Alone
I Never Thought I'd Break
Faithless Love
Other Lady
Time Heals Everything
Raining in My Heart
Some People
Intermission
They Ask Me Why
Johanna
Happiness
Hello Little Girl / Any Moment
There Won't Be Trumpets
Later
You Could Drive a Person Crazy
Not a Day Goes By
With So Little To Be Sure Of
Children Will Listen
Being Alive
Move On
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
PTM
| Jean
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6/7/2003 | posted: 8/2/2005 at 6:43:02 AM ET
playbill.com article (Dec. 10, 1996) on the 1996 Carnegie Hall concert:
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/32624.html
Thanks, PTM, very interesting to read the Mandelbaum piece. And maybe when I get the time (and the CD) I'll make a new one in the actual running order.
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Bernadette gets the final word--from playbill.com article:
"Lastly, here's the note BP inserted in the program:
"Dear Friends:
Thank you for coming this evening and supporting GMHC.
When I was originally asked to do this concert, it didn't take me very long to say yes, because I really wanted to do it for all our friends who are both here and no longer with us.
As we enter the holiday season, we must also celebrate our loves and lives and the sheer joy of giving.
And remember...there are only 15 more shopping days left 'til Christmas!
Warmest Love,
Bernadette"
| Jean
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6/7/2003 | posted: 8/2/2005 at 7:29:48 AM ET
"Bernadette Peters, Sweet With Sondheim":
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06E4D6113FF932A25751C1A960958260
The opening paragraph of Stephen Holden's review of the Carnegie Hall concert in the NY Times, Dec 11, 1996:
"Genuine sweetness, not the saccharine regality dispensed by the average show business diva, is such a rarity on the pop concert stage that it is difficult to believe when it stares you in the face. But Bernadette Peters, who made her New York solo concert debut on Monday evening at Carnegie Hall as a benefit for Gay Men's Health Crisis, effuses sweetness as naturally as she breathes."
and it gets better
|  mrbig
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Fav. BP Song: Not a Day Goes By
Fav. BP Show: Sunday in the Park...
Fav. BP Character: Dot in SITPWG
Fav. BP CD: Sondheim, Etc.
| posted: 8/2/2005 at 10:23:06 PM ET
Hello all! I love this CD! I got up early in the morning to purchase it, and I have been listening all day! I have a question that I am sure someone can answer. Can someone give me a list of the songs included in the overture? I have identified the snippets from Gypsy, Move on, Broadway Baby, Look What Happened to Mabel, Night Waltz from A Little Night Music (I think?). There is one little piece that I don't recognize. Help!
mrbig
"No matter what you say, Children Will Listen..."
| PTM
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6/26/2003 | posted: 8/2/2005 at 11:58:15 PM ET
I think you have all the songs except the last one which is "When Mabel Comes in the Room."
PTM
|  SingOutAnnie
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Bradenton/Sarasota, FLA | posted: 8/3/2005 at 11:53:23 AM ET
Listened this morning for the first time.
"Faithless Love" is just gorgeous.
And "With So Little to be Sure Of" is my favorite.
Gonna make a tape -- in concert order (Thanks, PTM) -- for the car tonight for my trip to the beach tomorrow.
Thank you, Bernadette.
(I'm counting it as a b'day present!)
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