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R. Chris
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7/14/2004 | posted: 8/12/2004 at 7:43:20 AM ET
I love her fantastic persona and her amazing capability to immerse herself into the character she's playing.
I just don't fancy her voice that much, personally I did like her in Gypsy but how could you possibly compare her to legends like Ethel Merman and Angela Lansbury who are the roots of Broadway ?
|  Jean
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6/7/2003 | posted: 8/12/2004 at 8:50:25 AM ET
Here's how to compare performers:
"Most Mama Roses have been too butch or brash (Bette Midler, Tyne Daly, and even Ethel Merman), too sophisticated (Angela Lansbury), or too ladylike (Betty Buckley). It remained for Peters to achieve the perfect blend of fanaticism and femininity, of monster and victim. Here for once is a demonic stage mother who can also convey sexiness, pathos, and charm. We understand now how she could enslave a man, make children her thralls, breach hearts and barriers, and steal restaurant flatware with puckish style. Also what made her what she is desperate to attain vicariously through a daughter what her background prevented her from becoming herself..."
John Simon, New York Magazine, May 12, 2003
(it's human nature to compare, for good or evil)
| Karen
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5/3/2002 | posted: 8/12/2004 at 10:47:39 AM ET
It's all arguable, of course, but just for the record, I'm compelled to state that I personally consider Bernadette Peters to rank with Merman and Lansbury as one of the greatest performers ever on Broadway (or anywhere) and fully expect her to be remembered that way.
| Jean
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6/7/2003 | posted: 8/12/2004 at 10:49:39 AM ET
Yes, what Karen said.
|  Sister Rose
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After all, she is a two time Tony winner (and arguably should have more than that) and is a member of the Broadway Hall of Fame.
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68.9.252.x | posted: 8/12/2004 at 11:07:02 PM ET
I think many people would argue that Bernadette should be a 5-time Tony Award winner: Sunday in the Park, Song & Dance, Into the Woods, Annie Get Your Gun, and Gypsy.
| futuremamarose87
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I would definitely argue that. She was so amazing in Sunday in the Park With George. Was she even nominated in that? Into the Woods is well deserved but I understand their reasons for not putting her down on the list. If she was nominated she would have won. AGYG I heard was amazing and well deserved. And I CANNOT believe she didn't get the tony for GYPSY! I have never seen such an amazing show in my life.
"It was like being high when you reach those high notes."
~Bernadette Peters
|  moljul
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| posted: 8/12/2004 at 11:19:09 PM ET
She was nominated for Sunday and it was considered her first Tony nomination where she really had a chance at winning but she lost to Chita Rivera in The Rink that year which I have been told was very well deserved. Just a good year for Lead Actresses in a musical.
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