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 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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 Carmen
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Boston | posted: 8/3/2005 at 2:01:25 PM ET
Boy, I can't wait to get mine! Enjoy the beach SingOutAnnie!
~Carmen~
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jmslsu01
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northern VA | posted: 8/3/2005 at 6:57:06 PM ET
And liner notes by Bernadette!
Jenn
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Carmen
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And liner notes by Bernadette!
Jenn
YAY!!!!!!!! Thanks Jenn!
~Carmen~
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 Bernadette-Fanatic
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Just adding my two cents:
I was so so pleased they included the Overture on this disc. An Overture is crucial in setting the mood for an evening's events, and this set the tone perfectly. I had always wondered how the one part of the Overture on her London DVD (where the opening credits are playing) fit into the grand scheme of things... Now I know!
I was surprised and ultimately elated that she did not hold back her giddiness about performing at Carnegie Hall! ("I'm here at Carnegie Hall! I can't believe it!") It's honest moments like those that made this recording so special.
And is it just me or was anyone else especially touched in "...Merry Little Christmas" when they audience so willingly joined in for the second half of the song! It's amazing how something as simple as a hall filled with people, all singing together, can create something so touching and pure.
(Call me a loser, but I'm a sucker for curtain call music and was SO happy they included her bows at the end of this disc.)
All in all, a very surprising album capturing this historic evening. Now if we could only see the home video Michael shot that Bernadette mentioned in the liner notes...
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 moljul
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Fav. BP CD: I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
Fav. BP Song: Dublin Lady
| posted: 8/3/2005 at 11:56:29 PM ET
I didn't catch that Michael was the one who shot the home movie but yes wouldn't that be wonderful.
On this past Sunday's radio interview she mentioned that some people who attended the concert told her that after the Christmas ending and everyone getting ornaments from "Santa's Helpers" that when they went outside it was starting to snow and it was just a perfect and magical way to end the evening.
Why or why did I not "discover" Bernadette until 1999? 
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 Sister Rose
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I love it when she said "Oh I'm going to sit on the edge...do you remember who else did this?" Wonderful!
And Moljul - I think about why didn't I didscover Bernadette sooner all the time - I didn't see Gypsy and become enthralled until 2004 - but I guess everything happens for a reason when its supposed to happen. 
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PTM
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I'm so happy that after almost 9 years, I can hear the rest of this concert again. Of all the Bernadette concerts (probably all the concerts period) I've been lucky enough to attend, this is still my favorite, and they did such a fantastic job of recording it and capturing the mood. As a fan, it was a thrill to be there with that adoring supportive crowd, in that historic venue, the sound of the orchestra and her voice in that hall was so warm and full, she seemed so relaxed, and the program was surprising and triumphantly delivered.
I'm very glad as well that they included the exit music. There really is something about that music that brings back all the emotions of that night for me. Kinda makes me want to cry too for some reason.
In case anyone was wondering, right after Bernadette launches into "Pennies from Heaven" you can hear her kissing someone and I think it was Joel Grey who was sitting on the aisle toward the front. I love that they include some of the patter and think it's smart that they kept it with the preceeding number so that the songs just basically start at the beginning of each track. Some of the cute things left off that I remember her saying that night:
During her intro to "I Never Thought I'd Break" where she talks about recording the album, she said it was in the 70s and it really was an album because they didn't have CDs back then, it was "14 years ago" which made people kinda giggle as her math was slightly off.
After "Other Lady" she asks if anyone knew who wrote that song and someone responded correctly and she said "Yeah you know . . . . Are you part of my family?"
At the end where she's thanking people and talking about Marvin, she mentioned a new musical he was working on called "It's Beshert" and she said you know "fate" and someone in the crowd yelled out the proper pronunciation and she was like oh no wonder you don't know what I'm talking about, I'm not saying it correctly.
And finally when she put the red shoes on (the sparkly red shoes), she said that a girlfriend had given them to her and she had thought at the time where am I ever going to wear these.
When Broadway Beat did the two part interview with her in 1997, they talked about the concert and how BBeat had taped some of it (not all of it, Bernadette emphasized because you're not allowed to) and Bernadette said how glad or grateful she was that they had taped her family. The interviewer said something about pulling Michael out of a corner to get comments from him and how proud he was of her. So maybe that's the home movies she's referring to.
PTM
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 GraceAnne
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New York, NY | posted: 8/7/2005 at 12:45:51 AM ET
PTM, fantastic comments. thank you!
what else was said in the 1997 bwaybeat interview? is it worth ordering (if it is available off their website?)
thanks
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Anonymous
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66.209.138.x | posted: 8/7/2005 at 1:00:19 AM ET
Is this going to be on iTunes as all the musci stores around me seemed to neglect to get it.
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Karen
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GraceAnne, the Broadway Beat interview is great--two half-hour segments. Richard Ridge is a good interviewer and gets Bernadette to cover her theatrical career pretty thoroughly. It was taped in 1997 right after Cinderella anfd right before the Into the Woods 10th anniversary concert.
Bernadette has this interesting, almost "Goth" look. She's all in black, with dark lipstick, and really long fingernails--black on the left hand and white on the right hand.
Definitely get it.
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GraceAnne
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New York, NY | posted: 8/7/2005 at 3:22:15 PM ET
Black nailpolish?? wow!
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PTM
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Yes I would say that the Broadway Beat interviews are definitely worth ordering. They aired Dec. 1 and Dec. 8, 1997, plus there are snippets of her performing Some People, Money/Pennies and Time Heals Everything from Carnegie Hall, some of Move On and Children Will Listen from the reunion concerts, Broadway Baby from MTC Spring Gala '97 and some of the funny Easter Bonnet skit that she and Martin Short did.
PTM
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Karen
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Oh yeah, I forgot they included an excerpt from the 1993 Easter Bonnet skit she did with Martin Short. That was hilarious. They were smoking cigarettes and engaging in post-sex repartee. The thing is, Short was made-up as a foot-high wooden marionnette.
He: Some people find me a bit stiff
She: Stiff? Lucky me!
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Jenny
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Nevada | posted: 8/7/2005 at 7:41:27 PM ET
What are the Broadway Beat interviews? How do you order them?
I loved listening to the first 3 clips of her new CD. I can't wait to by it! I love it when she does all that talking in between the songs. She's cute.
"Mapping out the sky. WHat you feel like planning a sky. WHat you feel when voices that come from the windo go until they distance and die. Until there's nothing but sky." Stephen SOndheim's SUnday in the Park with George
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PATTY
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tonawanda,n.y. | posted: 8/7/2005 at 10:45:20 PM ET
I really,really loved:" If you Were the Only Boy "
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"
"Other Lady" this one especially- does anyone know something about Gore and Weston?
The overture was beautiful and her patter delightful and charming! What a genuine sweetheart!
To the loveliest lady of song!
You will keep on giving me joy forever...
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