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 moljul
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| posted: 4/12/2007 at 4:24:05 PM ET
I no longer find them surprising but I continue to love stories of Bernadette's incredible kindness, generosity and professionalism.
Here is an excerpt from an article linked to the "news section" of this website. It talks about Julie Martell's first time going on as Louise in the 2003 revival of Gypsy.
Martell ended up playing Louise 60 times, the first time being a frightening experience during preview week when Tammy Blanchard was suddenly ill. "I found out a half hour before I was going to go on. I’d had one rehearsal prior about two weeks before and it was really that the show must go on."
"I remember sitting in wigs going over my lines going, ‘I don’t know if I can do it.’" Martell has no recollection of the actual performance until curtain. "Bernadette Peters is supposed to take the final bow and she pushed more forward to take it and that’s when I woke up."
The Chronicle Herald, April 12, 2007
"Particular mention must be made of Bernadette Peters, who turns up briefly in a sort of sparkly Glinda the Good costume. She's the reluctant muse sent to help Alice with her writing. The muse is dressed like Oz, sounds like Queens and behaves like a bored student adviser." Alice Film Review, The New York Times, December 25, 1990
"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
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6/26/2003 | posted: 4/12/2007 at 11:45:10 PM ET
Yes, reminds me of that story Robert Westenberg told about Bernadette insisting his name be listed before hers on the Sunday posters but 60 missed performances for Blanchard?? Blanchard was there 5 out of the 6 times I saw the show.
This little blurb was sort of buried in all the news about Papermills financial woes:
Certainly it was nothing like my meeting with Bernadette Peters — then in her 20s.
"Oh," she gasped as I walked into her shabby quarters. "I saw your picture in the paper today."
I knew that was not possible, but she insisted.
She took the parts of a disassembled paper off a chair and tossed them on the floor. I felt it was impolite to remain standing, so there I was, kneeling on the floor next to this friendly and beautiful young woman, until she found a photo of a man whose resemblance to her visitor was much more apparent to Bernadette than it was to me.
When we settled down to an interview, it easily slid into a long conversation in which she seemed as interested in me as I was in her.
http://www.thnt.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070406/COLUMNISTS03/704060414
PTM
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