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Scottie
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Blimey! It's very quiet here. Is that normal at all?
Quite off-topic I know ... but I contributed an entry regarding Bernadette's London debut to the Timeline page a few weeks ago and have been trying to follow it up with a scan of the 1998 London publicity flyer and am having problems with the size. Can someone please advise? How small does it have to be? I just thought it would be an interesting addition to the London Timeline entry.
I also wondered if anyone would be interested in reading a transcript of her London interview with The Times "Baby, look at you now" which was published in the newspaper (along with a huge photograph) one day before her Royal Festival Hall concert. But, you all may have read it already for all I know. If not and you feel it may be of interest, do I transcribe it here or elsewhere?
as Bernadette says....just keep moving on.....
|  moljul
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| posted: 5/22/2006 at 1:16:43 PM ET
Scottie, PLEASE DO transcribe the interview. I'm sure many of us would be interested in reading it. Thank you. What does the picture look like? Is it one of her general publicity shots or is it a special picture?
Sorry I don't know about the size of the picture for posting on the timeline.
"I'm one star away from Dolly Parton ... and Raymond Massey is between us. I hope we don't suffocate him." Bernadette Peters receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, April 24, 1987
| Karen
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Yes! I've never seen the article and would love to read it. That would be great if you would transcribe it here.
I don't know about the technical requirements of scanning something for the site. If you PM Kevin, he'll be able to help you with it.
And yeah, there are always those inevitable slow periods where nothing much is happening and no one posts for a few days.
| moljul
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| posted: 5/22/2006 at 1:23:02 PM ET
Karen, I almost used your avatar picture for my new avatar. The little old ladies in the background really crack me up. You can just tell what they are thinking "Why is that woman kissing that man in BROAD DAYLIGHT!" LOL
"I'm one star away from Dolly Parton ... and Raymond Massey is between us. I hope we don't suffocate him." Bernadette Peters receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, April 24, 1987
| Karen
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Moljul, I love that you mention the old ladies. They're one of my favorite parts of the picture. They just remind me so much of the old lady in the background of the Mary Tyler Moore Show opening credits quizically watching Mare throw her beret up in the air. She became so famous that when she died her obit was carried by the AP.
| moljul
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| posted: 5/22/2006 at 1:37:38 PM ET
Oh my gosh. Yes, that is the perfect connection. I loved that lady too and had heard her obit was run in the paper. I remember an interview with MTM when she mentioned she had met that woman one time when MTM was visiting Minneapolis, years after the show was over. Apparently the woman said the reason she had such a look on her face is that she didn't know who MTM was or what she was doing and she was very concerned "this poor girl would get hit by a car".
"I'm one star away from Dolly Parton ... and Raymond Massey is between us. I hope we don't suffocate him." Bernadette Peters receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, April 24, 1987
| Scottie
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What does the picture look like? Is it one of her general publicity shots or is it a special picture?
Thanks, I'll get down to transcribing it - you may well have heard all the same stuff already but there is an interesting quote from BP about Sondheim in this interview that I had never read before about how she assumed that as she was from a "different world" she thought she was someone he would "never" be interested in.
Gosh! How modest is that? And what a loss that would have been to the world of Sondheim!
The photograph is certainly one that I haven't seen elsewhere, very moody, sultry and very Bernadette. The words underneath say "fifty going on 25" so I would surmise that it was taken for the London interview.
as Bernadette says....just keep moving on.....
| moljul
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| posted: 5/22/2006 at 2:29:11 PM ET
That does sounds like a very interesting article. I can't wait to read it. If there is a way you can scan the picture and post it or send it to Kevin to post, I would be very interested in seeing it.
Thanks again!
"I'm one star away from Dolly Parton ... and Raymond Massey is between us. I hope we don't suffocate him." Bernadette Peters receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, April 24, 1987
| Scottie
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THE TIMES WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 16 1998
ARTS Page
SHOWBIZ
Show girl in town
Baby, Look At You Now.
CABARET: If you want to see a genuine Broadway babe, catch Bernadette Peters, says Matt Wolf
Cameron Mackintosh's cheerfully self-exalting tribute to his own career at the Lyceum Theatre in June - a royal gala titles Hey Mr Producer! - featured a host of familiar names (Julie Andrews, Michael Ball, Elaine Paige) alongside one visitor from across the Atlantic whose qualities as a belter are as distinctive as her cascading ringlets of auburn hair. Among hundreds of performers, Bernadette Peters stood ever so slightly out of the crowd.
"She's an original" Mackintosh says, "one of those terrific theatre animals. She has her own style."
Tomorrow London gets to discover Peters at the festival Hall, backed by a full orchestra in a version of the concert that she first performed to rave reviews at New York's Carnegie Hall in December 1996. That show was recorded live and, since then, has travelled around America and to the Sydney festival in Australia. But only now, aged 50, is Peters making her solo concert debut in London, allowing local audiences to experience someone as close as New York theatre still allows to a genuine Broadway baby.
Indeed, Stephen Sondheim's "Broadway baby" (from his 1971 Follies) is one of Peters' chosen songs in an evening whose entire second half is devoted to the composer with whom Peters remains best associated, following her bravura performances in his successive Eighties Broadway ventures Sunday in the Park with George and Into The Woods.
In between these two shows, this native of New York's Ozone Park in Queens won a Tony Award playing the heartsick Briton on her own in Manhattan in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Song and Dance.
Set these performances alongside Jerry Herman's 1975 cult favourite Mack and Mabel, in which Peters originated the role of silent movie comedienne Mabel Normand opposite the Mack Sennett of the late Robert Preston, and you have that rare performer whose career spans three composers thought to be stylistically antithetical: the ever hummable Herman, the supposedly rarefied and difficult Sondheim, and the determinedly populist Lloyd Webber.
"They're artists of a different nature, that's all: their souls come out in different ways," says Peters, who had been performing professionally for almost two decades before she first worked with Sondheim on Sunday in the Park with George. "I never thought I would be in a Sondheim show and just assumed I was from a different world. I felt I was someone he probably wouldn't be interested in: I judged myself. I limited myself, which you should not do, and I was really wrong."
She now acknowledges Sunday in the Park as the turning point in a career that gad preciously honoured her kewpie-doll looks and fresh-faced innocence without fully allowing Peters to be the emotional pivot and centre to a show. "I was finally in a hit," she says, having weathered a short-lived 1971 revival of On The Town (for which she nonetheless received a Tony nomination) and, two years earlier, an all-but-forgotten stage musical of the Fellini film La Strada by Britain's own Lionel Bart.
"It was nice to be in something that was a success and that fed you back so much" she says of Sunday in the Park, which survived a bumpy workshop and troubled previews to run for 540 performances and win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. "I still have a feeling that comes over me when I hear the opening French horn of that show."
Peters is no stranger to other media, having done a TV series and various films, including a rare Merchant-Ivory foray into the world of hip, downtown Manhattan (Slaves of New York) and virtually back -to -back projects The Jerk and Pennies From heaven. She was even a Playboy cover girl "You have to pick things that will be different and varied, " says Peters, who began studying voice and dance at three-and-a-half,
, her second name by then changed by her mother from Lazzara to Peters so that the young Bernadette would not be typecast in ethnic roles.
"My mother told me that Bernadette was too long to fit on a billboard, but I knew what was really going on: she didn't want child agents to make me an Italian girl, which might have been kind of interesting. I probably would have had a whole other career being Anna Maria Alberghetti." Instead, looking some 20 years younger than she is, Peters remains her distinctive self.
"There's a timeless quality to Bernadette," Martin Short, her Broadway co-star several years back in The Goodbye Girl, said to me recently. "She always looks the same: it's that Italian skin." And with an ancillary career doing concerts, and a forthcoming Broadway revival of Annie Get Your Gun as sharpshooter Annie Oakley, her future seems assured.
"The theatre is where I live strongly," says Peters. "I do see myself going on: I'm not tired out." And besides, she adds, "Worry makes trouble, so I prefer not to. I'd rather just presume the voice is there until it's not."
Bernadette Peters is in concert tomorrow at the Royal Festival Hall, London SE1 8pm.
as Bernadette says....just keep moving on.....
| moljul
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Fav. BP CD: I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
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| posted: 5/22/2006 at 4:08:34 PM ET
Thank you very much for taking the time to type that all up. Great article!
"I'm one star away from Dolly Parton ... and Raymond Massey is between us. I hope we don't suffocate him." Bernadette Peters receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, April 24, 1987
| Scottie
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Edinburgh, Scotland | posted: 5/22/2006 at 4:08:53 PM ET
oops! sorry for the couple of typos in the above. You try hitting the the right keys on the keyboard with a 2 stone dog intent on sitting on your lap!!!
If anyone wants to see a scan of the photograph just PM me and I'll be more than happy to send it to you.
as Bernadette says....just keep moving on.....
| Karen
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Great! Thanks so much, Scottie.
I always like how matter-of-fact Bernadette sounds about everything.
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