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Bwaybaby
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3/10/2001 | posted: 5/17/2003 at 6:45:16 AM ET
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/79581.html
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5/13/2003 | posted: 5/17/2003 at 9:56:26 AM ET
Awww. That makes me respect her even more! I hate when you find out that someone who's work you enjoy is a real jerk in person.
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3/10/2001 | posted: 5/18/2003 at 2:43:44 AM ET
The article that Andrew Gans has been alluding to all these weeks is finally in this months edition of Playbill magazine( the one you get when you go to a Broadway show) 
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3/10/2001 | posted: 5/19/2003 at 12:25:03 AM ET
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/79603.html
I know lastnight someone was talking about them having just gotten a new lamb ( that I think is about 3 weeks old now).Although the lamb I saw on stage lastnight was most defintely not just 3 weeks old. If it is 3 weeks old than its BIG for its age LOL Maybe the new one just hasn't hit the stage yet for a performance. The lamb seemed very calm lastnight, more so then most nights. When I've seen the show the lamb usually starts fidgeting in Tammy's arms and trying to break loose when she sings the last( high note). Lastnight it just sat there very calmly throughout the entire song. I remember the lamb at the first preview being pretty tiny. A lot smaller than the one lastnight 
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205.188.209.x | posted: 5/19/2003 at 12:45:58 AM ET
No fair. You went again? I'm hoping to get back in the fall to see the Boy From Oz, but I want to be sure (as sure as can be anyway) I can see Peters again. Anyone know if she's going to take her vacation around the same time she did when she was in Annie?
Anyway, seeing the Boy From Oz ads made me think about the first time I saw Bernadette in concert. I had already seen her twice in ITW, but the first time live in concert was when she and Peter Allen did a ten city tour in 1989. They opened the show with an exciting medley of Allen's song Name in Lights (from Legs Diamond) and Some People. I enjoyed the show so much, I went to Las Vegas to catch it again. Coincidentally, the night before I saw Peters and Allen at a packed Greek Theatre under the stars with a bunch of stars in Los Angeles, I saw my first production of Gypsy with none other than Tyne Daly. What a great one two punch that was.
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3/10/2001 | posted: 5/19/2003 at 12:52:11 AM ET
I really want to see Boy From Oz too. Peter Allen seemed like a really extrordinary man and was definitely a great performer! I remember someone mentioning her vacation last night for some reason but I wasn't really paying much attention LOL Like I said in another post though....Bernadette and her husband often take a vaction in December. That's a LONG way off for a vacation though so who knows.
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205.188.209.x | posted: 5/19/2003 at 1:09:09 AM ET
Peter Allen was definitely a crowd pleaser and I think put Peters more at ease in front of the audience since, at that time, IMHO she was still growing as a concert performer. Althought Allen knew how to work the crowd, the critics, at least the ones who reviewed their show, didn't seem to respect his talents much. One review commented about whether Allen would be able to ride Peters coattails round the country, another said that "Peters stole the show, Allen didn't have a prayer following her and proved to be just filler"
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205.188.209.x | posted: 5/19/2003 at 1:23:25 AM ET
I always post before I finish typing. Forgot to say that I thought it was very touching that Peters included the Peter Allen song "I Never Thought I'd Break" in her Carnegie Hall concert. I think she may have said something about missing him too.
BTW, how was the show Saturday night? Did they have a good audience?
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3/10/2001 | posted: 5/19/2003 at 1:36:59 AM ET
Awww that's sad that his talents were really not appreciated by some at that time. Bernadette and Peter actually grew to be close friends from touring together. I unfortunately never got a chance to see him perform live although I wish I had!! There is this song he wrote that is so beautiful that I just love, its called I STILL CALL AUSTRALIA HOME. I'm pretty sure its going to be in The Boy From Oz.
The show was great on Saturtday!! The audience really seemed to enjoy it a lot. It was standing room only They especially went wild after Everything's Coming Up Roses, Gotta Get A Gimmick and Rose's Turn. I heard nothing but postive remarks from the audience members around me during intermission and after the show.
Btw, Heather had her pointe shoes on again. She seriously amazes me! I don't remember her doing this before...but she added a little "Whew" when she walks out on stage pretending to act exhausted to do her little " an uncle of mine and an uncle of yours..." bit.If she has been dong it all along then I just realized it last night LOL She got a lot of laughs out of that though which I thought was great! So young and she has such great comedic timing!!
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205.188.209.x | posted: 5/19/2003 at 2:07:55 AM ET
Does Heather switch back and forth? I noticed her up on her toes at least one time I looked, but other performances I was kinda watching Peters. At the final preview I saw, she dropped one of her batons but just kept right on going. Actually there were lots of little things that went wrong at that final preview performance -- Heather dropped her baton, some piece of scenery made lots of noise during Herbie and Rose's first meeting so much so that Dossett ad libbed to Mr. Webber that maybe he should check on that, one of the haystacks wasn't set right so poor Kate sort of stumbled out of the whatever that is she comes out of, Peters tossed one of the plates into the audience during "Together" so Tammy had to go running down those steps to retrieve it, Dossett knocked Brooks into the stall so that the cow's head fell down and Peters picked it and was stuck holding it when Dossett points out that those are ladies which got a laugh, and Tammy stumbled over her name during the strip part and was it that show where Tessie got caught on Electra or was that opening night. Anyway everybody was a pro and handled it all with grace.
Glad to hear that audience response is so strong. Don't surveys now say that recommendations from friends is one fo the main ways that people choose shows.
Anyone have any thoughts on the ads for Gypsy in the Sunday Times. I think they should use more of the quotes from the different raves they received although they might have to shrink Bernadette down a bit to get more in there.
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152.163.253.x | posted: 5/19/2003 at 2:34:57 AM ET
Weren't Bernadette and Peter close friends before the tour? From the interviews they did at the time, I got the impression they were close and that's how the tour came about. They said they met during her first album when she asked him to play the piano and then they did that big Irving Berlin tribute on the Oscars and I have clips of Allen performing at some tribute for Bernadette after she won her first Tony. Allen wrote a couple of fun duets for their tour one called "Making Every Moment Count" I think they wanted to record it together but I think Bernadtte went off to do Impromptu or something so unfortunately no professionally recorded version of the two of them together.
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Oh my gosh. Those are hysterical flubs. I wish I had been at that performance.
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64.12.96.x | posted: 5/19/2003 at 11:44:02 AM ET
Well, the only ones I thought were kinda amusing were when Peters was holding the cows head and the plate in the audience. Tammy's stumbling over her name sort of marred the effect of that moment during the strip and overall I thought the crowd wasn't as good as the previous night's which made me worry what those critics who were in attendence (Filichia, Kissel, Musto (if he really counts and whoever else I didn't see) were going to say.
Could be sitting under that Mezz overhang though too that made the sound, perf., and audience response seem just a little flatter.
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