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Karen Registered User
Registered: 5/3/2002 | posted: 9/30/2013 at 9:15:19 PM ET Playbill
| Karen Registered User
Registered: 5/3/2002 | posted: 9/30/2013 at 9:17:04 PM ET New York Times
| leebee Registered User
Registered: 1/19/2004
Fav. BP Song: Being Alive Fav. BP Show: Sunday In The Park With George
| posted: 9/30/2013 at 10:26:36 PM ET We are seriously going to try to see this.
| NeelyOHara Registered User
Registered: 10/17/2013 | posted: 10/17/2013 at 9:28:13 PM ET I already had tix for this and was so excited to see BP would be performing!
| Jean Registered User
Registered: 6/7/2003 | posted: 11/7/2013 at 6:04:56 PM ET Photos and article (nothing new in article)
Playbill photo and article, Nov 7
| Jean Registered User
Registered: 6/7/2003 | posted: 11/7/2013 at 7:36:50 PM ET A photo of the entire cast, with a brief note about the show's plot.
broadway.com article
| Jean Registered User
Registered: 6/7/2003 | posted: 11/12/2013 at 3:07:58 AM ET Rehearsal video:
Playbill--rehearsal video
| Jean Registered User
Registered: 6/7/2003 | posted: 11/14/2013 at 6:19:26 AM ET Photos from the first performance:
Playbill article and photos
and Bernadette gets to wear a stunning red dress.
| Jean Registered User
Registered: 6/7/2003 | posted: 11/14/2013 at 6:32:45 AM ET A poster on "allthatchat" has posted a review of the concert (warning, this link will expire in about one week):
allthatchat
Song list:
“Merrily We Roll Along Overture” -- Orchestra
“What More Do I Need?" -- Cyrille Aimée
“Another Hundred People” -- Jeremy Jordan
“So Many People” -- Norm Lewis
“Broadway Baby” -- Bernadette Peters
“That Old Piano Roll” -- Meg Gillentine, Tyler Hanes, Grasan Kingsberry, Elizabeth Parkinson
“Live Alone and Like It” -- Cyrille Aimée
“Losing My Mind” -- Jeremy Jordan
“Who’s That Woman?” -- Tyler Hanes and Meg Gillentine
“Happily Ever After” -- Entire cast
“I Remember” -- Bernadette Peters and Norm Lewis
“Everybody Says Don’t” -- Jeremy Jordan, then Cyrille Aimée, Bernadette Peters and Norm Lewis
“Someone Is Waiting” -- Norm Lewis
“It Would Have Been Wonderful” -- Elizabeth Parkinson and Grasan Kingsberry
“You Could Drive a Person Crazy” -- Cyrille Aimée
“Like It Was” -- Bernadette Peters
“Giants in the Sky” -- Jeremy Jordan
“Isn’t He Something!” -- Bernadette Peters
“Buddy’s Blues” -- Jeremy Jordan
“With So Little To Be Sure Of” -- Entire cast
“The Ladies Who Lunch” (Bernadette Peters) / “Agony” (Norm Lewis and Jeremy Jordan) / “Can That Boy Fox Trot!” (Bernadette Peters and Cyrille Aimée) / “Uptown/Downtown” (Norm Lewis, Jeremy Jordan)
“Loving You” -- Bernadette Peters and Norm Lewis
“Send in the Clowns” -- Elizabeth Parkinson and Grasan Kingsberry
“Rainbows” -- Bernadette Peters and Norm Lewis
“I Wish I Could Forget You” -- Jeremy Jordan, Cyrille Aimée, Bernadette Peters and Norm Lewis
“What More Do I Need” (Reprise) -- Bernadette Peters and full company
“Old Friends” -- Orchestra
| Jean Registered User
Registered: 6/7/2003 | posted: 11/14/2013 at 8:34:01 AM ET broadwayworld photos from opening performance:
broadwayworld
correction, this is a 3 or so minute video of the first performance
| Jean Registered User
Registered: 6/7/2003 | posted: 11/14/2013 at 2:23:18 PM ET
quote: Photos from the first performance:
Playbill article and photos
and Bernadette gets to wear a stunning red dress. (correction, the dress is a strong pink...)
| Karen Registered User
Registered: 5/3/2002 | posted: 11/14/2013 at 3:52:21 PM ET Another pic:
NYT/Sara Krulwich
| Jean Registered User
Registered: 6/7/2003 | posted: 11/14/2013 at 4:18:27 PM ET Reviews:
USA Today
New York Times (Ben Brantley)
From Brantley:
"Ms. Peters — lookin’ better than a body has a right to (to borrow from Dolly Parton) in a fuchsia bandage of a dress — more or less goes her own way, and the audience is delighted to follow her. As a singer and actress, she just can’t help being ardent, full-throated and sincere. She also reminds us here of her considerable and original comic gifts.
In my favorite moment, Ms. Peters sings a duet with a spotlight for a red-hot version of that oft-performed paean to showbiz ambition, “Broadway Baby.” The number begins with Ms. Peters stage left and the spotlight stage center.
She eyes the pool of light lustfully and seductively, sidles up to it and then jumps into its center, which is to say the center of attention. More than any footage of tall buildings and teeming streets, Ms. Peters’s leap into the spotlight summarizes the forever hungry essence of the city that’s being celebrated. "
New York Daily News
| Karen Registered User
Registered: 5/3/2002 | posted: 11/14/2013 at 4:23:13 PM ET Ladies Who Lunch Medley
Audio Clip
| Jean Registered User
Registered: 6/7/2003 | posted: 11/15/2013 at 2:50:26 AM ET Review, New York Post:
NY Post
Review, NY Mag, by Jesse Green:
"... for Peters, inevitably, “Broadway Baby,” which she proceeds to knock to the back of the hall with a fat, satisfying thwack. But then, she does that in each of her five or six at-bats, including a sexed-up “Isn’t He Something!” from Road Show and a climactic “Ladies Who Lunch.” Entered from an odd, unexpected angle, her rendition, much sadder than Elaine Stritch’s, both acknowledges and dismisses the originator of the song as if she were a woman seen at a party in exactly the same dress. Not that you’d ever find Stritch in the ruched fuchsia number Peters almost wears. Diva heaven, yes, but it needs to be said what a wrenching (and funny) actress Peters remains, not on top of her voice but through it. You can see the others working hard to match that quality in their best moments."
NY Mag
| Jean Registered User
Registered: 6/7/2003 | posted: 11/15/2013 at 10:48:29 AM ET Here is the Playbill article with links to all of the reviews (most but not all are in the posts above):
Playbill article, links to reviews
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