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 GraceAnne
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New York, NY | posted: 9/1/2005 at 4:44:01 PM ET
Check it out
It is a free paper in NYC. I saw it on the way to the subway with Bernadette on the cover and was like OHHH YAY!
Not a great article, mostly just career bio, but some good quotes toward the end.
GraceAnne 
|  Jean
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6/7/2003 | posted: 9/1/2005 at 5:44:30 PM ET
Thanks, GA--
nice to see that Bernadette took a vacation (Italy and France).
Also interesting to read a bit more about the upcoming CD. I'm starting to get very excited about this one--I think this may be the one that puts it all together, so to speak.
|  leebee
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| posted: 9/1/2005 at 6:01:05 PM ET
Thank you, I really enjoyed that. A nice bit of relief from all the sad news going around today.
|  Sister Rose
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GraceAnne - What is the approximate location of the paper stand where you found this? In Manhattan?
| GraceAnne
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It was outside the 79th st. subway stop (the 1 train). It was on the SW corner of 79th and B'way.
| Sister Rose
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Thanks!
| Sister Rose
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Found it! Its a nice magazine. Bernadette is labeled the "Queen of Broadway"!
| PTM
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From the October issue by editor, publisher Keith Girard:
As its name suggests, this column normally likes to take a slightly different view of places and events, totally in keeping with our magazine’s motto, “A view askew…” But this month, we are taking a small hiatus to express our heartfelt condolences to Bernadette Peters, the stage and screen star who graced our cover last month.
Her husband of nine years, Michael Wittenberg, died Monday, Sept. 26, in a helicopter crash in Serbia’s neighboring republic of Montenegro. He was 43.
Wittenberg, an investment adviser, died while on a business trip to inspect properties, said Judy Katz, a spokeswoman for Peters. Three other people were killed in the crash, which occurred when the aircraft struck a high-voltage cable, according to police in Podgorica, Montenegro’s capital.
“He was a delightful and lovely man who thought we were all a little weird in show business,” Barry Weissler told reporters. Weissler, with his wife, Fran, produced the 1999 revival of Annie Get Your Gun. Peters won her second Tony Award for the show.
Wittenberg married the star in July 1996 at the Dutchess County home of her longtime friend, actress Mary Tyler Moore. The couple shared a devotion to animals, and had adopted two pets, a pit bull named Stella from the CACC and a mixed terrier called Kramer from the ASPCA. The couple did not have children.
In Feb. 1999, Peters extolled their marriage in Playbill magazine. “It’s been like this secure, rooted place, so it allows my tree to branch out,” she said. “I’ve never worked as much since I’ve been married, taking risks and doing things.”
Peters told the Philadelphia City Paper in 2000 that she met her future husband in front of her Manhattan apartment building one night, as she was waiting for a date who was late. “Michael was on his way to a charity event and was in a tuxedo,” she remembered. “So he walked up to me, a stranger, and said: ‘Are you ready to go?’ How’s that for a sense of confidence and a sense of humor?” At the time, Wittenberg worked for Salomon Smith Barney.
The duo was one of Broadway’s glamorous but low-profile couples, according to the New York Post. They were guarded about their personal lives, and were seldom seen on the New York theater circuit. Instead, they spent as much time as they could in their penthouse apartment on the Upper West Side.
Peters is a two-time Tony Award winner for her work in Song & Dance and Annie Get Your Gun. She took part last month in a benefit concert for the victims of Hurricane Katrina at the Gershwin Theatre.
In lieu of flowers Mr. Wittenberg’s family requests that donations be made in his name to one of three organizations: Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Broadway Barks or Standing Tall.
Here at The Improper we feel a special affinity for Bernadette. When we were planning our inaugural Theater issue, she graciously agreed to an interview, even though we were relatively new to theater coverage, and unknown to her. It help us immensely to have someone so synonymous with Broadway on our cover. But that, according to friends, is how she is. Now, in her hour of need, our prayers are with her.
PTM
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