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Concert Review: BERNADETTE PETERS (Tour at Luckman)

by Tony Frankel on March 10, 2024

in Theater-Los Angeles , Theater-Regional , Tours

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After she hung up her late-Victorian hat after taking over for Bette Midler in Hello, Dolly! on Broadway, the inimitable Bernadette Peters made her West End debut in Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends on the West End, which ended on January 6, 2024. Now, she has embarked on another concert tour, making her first stop at Cal State L.A.’s Luckman Theatre last night to share her love of theater, singing selections from musicals as if for the first time. And that’s quite a feat given that the girl with Kewpie-doll eyes, a rosebud pout, and insanely luxurious red ringlets has been in most of the shows she sings from, including Gypsy ,  Into the Woods ,  Follies ,  A Little Night Music , and  Anyone Can Whistle . In fact, while the character actress/waif/ingénue may have played Mama Rose in 2003 — a perfect role for one who cut her teeth on Broadway’s Golden Age — one of her first stints was at 13 singing in the chorus of the second national company of  Gypsy starring Mitzi Green.

After an exciting Broadway-style overture, Peters offered sexy, slinky moves and bold feminine security in the deliciously comedic  “There Is Nothin’ Like a Dame” from South Pacific . Usually sung by a crew of unsatiated sailors, her campy burlesque convinced us that the title is unquestionably true. She went to the horn player and sang the bass part perfectly. Speaking of Rodgers & Hammerstein, she said her favorite  record growing up was Carousel so she offered from that show an endearing “(When I Marry) Mister Snow.” Another R&H hit done to perfection was “It Might as Well Be Spring” from the film State Fair .

One of the foremost interpreters of the work of Sondheim, her association with the composer began in 1983 when she was cast as Dot in the first production of Sunday in the Park  with George . We knew we would get solid interpretations of Sondheim masterpieces (she was one of his favorite actresses), but did she ever act the hell out of “Losing My Mind” from Follies , going from nutty to angry to wistful to vulnerable; Peters is one of the best at telling a story in song. She did that as well with torturously passionate and soulful renditions of “Send in the Clowns,” “With So Little to Be Sure Of,” “No One Is Alone,” and a gorgeously yearning “Johanna” — all of which had the full house respond with ecstasy.

With “In Buddy’s Eyes” from Follies you notice the difference between Peters and other great song interpreters from Broadway, such as Barbara Cook, Kelli O’Hara and Audra McDonald: Her voice can vacillate from a silvery, angelic soprano to a wavering, odd vibrato or a note that cracks or goes astray. But she’s adjusted her vocals to her age — appearing gobsmackingly good at 76 — as she pulled off every note in Company ’s “Being Alive.” She was equally adept at finding depth in  Dolly ‘s “Before the Parade Passes By” and “So Long, Dearie” and some standards, including Kern and Fields’ “The Way You Look Tonight” and Rogers and Hart’s “My Romance.” And cheers to a singer who acknowledges the songsmiths!

As musical director and pianist of the 9-piece band, which included original Mouseketeer Cubby O’Brien on drums, Marvin Laird  — who wrote the musical Ruthless!  — has been Peters’ accompanist since he first met her at age 13 (there were four members on strings, three on reeds and one on horn). And Lenny Cowles ‘ lighting was spectacular; at one point, bassist Kevin Axt was lit from the side, projecting a Fantasia -like shadow on the acoustic wall.

Her best-selling children’s book,  Broadway Barks , is the story of an adorable dog called Kramer, based on Peters’ erstwhile pet, who longs for a home and gets one at a Broadway Barks event. To end the event, she sang her own composition — a lullaby called “Kramer’s Song” which is packaged with the book on a CD in which the actress sings her composition and reads the text in her inimitable voice. Proceeds from her merchandise went to the charity she formed with Mary Tyler Moore that benefits shelter animals.

It was really a treat to see her at the 1,152-seat Luckman , an intimate theatre to watch headliners, knowing that Peters has done her concerts in huge halls. She wore a gorgeous, tight-fitting, mauve-pink — almost tan — sparkling gown (a Bob Mackie original, perhaps?) that set off her voluptuous figure to perfection, especially when she thrust her bust forward from a postured position on the piano in “Fever.” This legend and seasoned pro gives a tremendous amount of pleasure to her audience, and her sheer presence and youthfulness are inspiring.

Bernadette Peters in Concert played March 9, 2024 The Luckman Theatre at Cal State L.A. tour continues; for dates and cities, visit Bernadette Peters

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Acclaimed Broadway legend, Bernadette Peters, continues to captivate audiences worldwide with her sensational performances. With a career spanning over five decades, Peters has become an enduring icon in the world of theater, known for her roles in musicals such as "Into the Woods," "Annie Get Your Gun," and "Gypsy." Her extraordinary talent extends beyond stage acting, as she has also made significant contributions to film, television, and music. Possessing a unique, sultry voice and an undeniable charisma, Peters has been honored with numerous prestigious awards, including two Tony Awards. She is also a philanthropist, co-founding Broadway Barks, an organization that promotes the adoption of shelter animals. ConcertFix is thrilled to provide fans with the latest news and updates about Bernadette Peters' upcoming performances and events. Her enduring passion for the arts guarantees an unforgettable experience for every audience she graces with her presence.

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Bernadette Peters, Broadway’s brightest star and Sondheim’s most stunning muse, in an unforgettable evening of song from the Broadway shows she’s received accolades for, as well as from all her Grammy Award winning and nominated albums. A glamorous evening as only Bernadette Peters can do.

“There are singers and there are actresses; there are entertainers and there are stars. And then, there is Bernadette Peters.” -LA Times

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

80 minutes, no intermission

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Throughout her illustrious career, Bernadette Peters has dazzled audiences and critics with her performances on stage, film and television, in concert, and on recordings. She has garnered numerous accolades including three Tony Awards, a Golden Globe, three Emmy and four Grammy Award nominations and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 

Best known for her work on stage and one of Broadway’s most critically acclaimed performers, Bernadette recently starred on Broadway as Dolly Gallagher Levi in the hit musical, Hello, Dolly! . Prior to that, she starred in City Center’s Encores! Production, A Bed and a Chair: A New York Love Affair featuring the music of Stephen Sondheim and orchestrations by Wynton Marsalis and on Broadway, in Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music and Follies . 

Peters garnered both the Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for her performance in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Song and Dance . She also won a Tony Award for her performance in Annie Get Your Gun . She received Tony nominations for her outstanding performances in Sam Mendes’ critically acclaimed revival of Gypsy , in Neil Simon’s The Goodbye Girl , Stephen Sondheim’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Sunday in the Park with George , the Jerry Herman/Gower Champion ode to the movies, Mack and Mabel , and the Leonard Bernstein/Comden and Green musical On The Town . In addition to these honors, Peters earned a Drama Desk nomination for her unforgettable portrayal of the Witch in Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods . 

She also enjoys a career which boasts an impressive list of television credits, including guest-starring on the NBC-TV series, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist for which she earned an Emmy nomination. The popular series was made into a TV movie musical titled Zoey’s Extraordinary Christmas for The Roku Channel. Other recent TV appearances include The CW’s Katy Keene ; CBS All Access’ The Good Fight ; and Amazon Prime’s Golden Globe winning series, Mozart in the Jungle . She recently completed production on the new Apple TV series, High Desert , scheduled to be released this Summer. 

Other television credits include NBC-TV’s Smash , ABC-TV’s Grey’s Anatomy and Ugly Betty . In addition to starring in the Lifetime TV movie Living Proof , Peters has lit up the silver screen in over 30 films throughout her distinguished career. She received a Golden Globe Award for her memorable performance in Pennies From Heaven . Other film credits include The Jerk , The Longest Yard , Silent Movie , Annie , Pink Cadillac , Slaves of New York , Woody Allen’s Alice , Impromptu , It Runs in the Family , Coming Up Roses , The Broken Hearts Gallery and most recently, a surprise appearance in the popular Jonathan Larson biopic, tick, tick…BOOM! 

Bernadette has recorded six solo albums, including the Grammy-nominated I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight , Sondheim, Etc.: Bernadette Peters Live at Carnegie Hall , and Bernadette Peters Loves Rodgers & Hammerstein , in addition to numerous original Broadway cast recordings. 

Peters devotes her time and talents to numerous events that benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Her “pet project” Broadway Barks, co-founded with Mary Tyler Moore, is an annual, star-studded dog and cat adoption event that benefits shelter animals in the New York City area. She is a New York Times best-selling author who has penned three children’s books: Broadway Barks , Stella is a Star , and Stella and Charlie: Friends Forever . All of her proceeds from the sale of these books benefit Broadway Barks. Peters resides in New York and Los Angeles with her rescue dogs, Charlie and Rosalia.

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Bernadette Peters talks to Matt Wolf about her determination to keep the Stephen Sondheim’s memory alive

‘You keep moving on.’ That lyric, from Sunday in the Park With George , was first sung in the show’s 1984 Broadway premiere by Bernadette Peters, and its sentiment could well apply to Peters herself. Nearly 40 years after she helped birth a Stephen Sondheim musical that can fairly be said to have changed the face and shape and sound of Broadway, Peters continues to move on. At the ripe young age of 75, Peters is this September finally making her West End debut in a proper run of a show, as opposed to one-off concerts and the like.

Unsurprisingly her autumn opening takes as its title a second Sondheim lyric, Old Friends . Peters was a crucial part of the original gala version of this show, produced by Cameron Mackintosh at the Sondheim Theatre in May 2022 to honour the late composer. (Mackintosh is at the helm again.)

Few in attendance that evening will forget first glimpsing the mysterious caped figure in red who appeared, back to the audience, her signature curls obscured from view. She turned around and there Peters was as Little Red Riding Hood from Into the Woods , the Sondheim musical which she premiered on Broadway three years after Sunday , at the time playing not Little Red but the spell-obsessed Witch. ‘I know things now,’ she sang 18 months ago in concert, and Peters, you feel, very much does.

Old Friends 2022: ‘You Gotta Get a Gimmick’ (Gypsy) (photography: Danny Kaan)

For the actual 16-week engagement of Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends , this Broadway luminary has assumed above-the-title status (alongside Lea Salonga). And what could be more appropriate for a long-overdue West End debut than a revue tethered to the output of the composer-lyricist, Sondheim, with whom Peters is primarily identified?

‘Any time I can sing Steve’s music is a privilege and a joy,’ she told me during a Zoom call from New York in early July, ‘and any time I can honour him, I want to: I feel his loss.’ Why hasn’t she headlined a London show before? She recalls two previous West End offers: ‘One came at a time when I just didn’t want to leave home; in the case of the other, I didn’t care for the material.’

I thought I was just from a different world and was someone [Sondheim] probably wouldn’t be interested in. I limited myself, and I was wrong

She could hardly be more sympathetic to the work than she is with Sondheim – which is saying a lot, given an extraordinary seven-decade career that spans Frank Loesser and Lionel Bart early on, as well as Jerry Herman ( Mack and Mabel , Hello, Dolly! ), a single foray into Kander and Ebb (a 1996 workshop of their much-reworked musical version of The Skin of Our Teeth ), Marvin Hamlisch ( The Goodbye Girl ), and the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Irving Berlin titles for which she won her two competitive Tonys – Song and Dance and Annie Get Your Gun . 

In 2012 Peters was awarded a third, non-competitive Tony for her pioneering work with Broadway Barks, the animal charity she co-founded with the late and much-loved Mary Tyler Moore, and which took place once again on 8 July in Broadway’s Shubert Alley.

Nor is that an incidental aspect of her life. Peters lives for her two dogs, and by the time our hour-long chat was over, I was ready to adopt a pooch myself. She talks of re-establishing, with Elaine Paige, West End Woofs as a London equivalent to Broadway Barks, and so vividly describes her pit bull (‘afraid of the rain’) and labradoodle (‘with a hundred different things in him’) that I, too, feel her urgency when she talks of making sure these dogs would be well looked after in New York before she’d commit to a lengthy stint in London. First things first, and rightly so.

Among humans, few have been as resonant for Peters as Sondheim, as befits a performer who, then barely a teenager, appeared in 1961 in the ensemble of the second national tour of Gypsy – lyrics, of course, by Sondheim, alongside Jule Styne’s score – only to accede over time to the seismic assignment of Momma Rose on Broadway in 2003. Peters’s performance of ‘Rose’s Turn’ at that year’s Tony Awards ceremony remains the stuff of legend (check it out on YouTube): hair-raising in its power and prised from deep within this small but mighty matriarch’s bruised, damaged heart. 

You have only to scan the setlist for her recent trio of concerts in Pasadena, California, to see where her emphasis lies. The evening began with, yes, ‘Old Friends’, from Merrily We Roll Along , before encompassing nearly a dozen other Sondheim titles. And when Broadway.com marked Sondheim’s 90th birthday during the pandemic with a (thrilling) online concert, the sequence of performances ended with an a cappella version of ‘No One is Alone’, recorded in the dining room of Peters’s West Side apartment (again, on YouTube). Peters thought at the time that those in charge of the online event might want adjustments – but no: ‘They said, “We’re just going to leave this as it is.”’

Peters herself has plenty to say about Sondheim, whom she first met briefly (‘when I was a kid’) during a dinner at Joe Allen restaurant in Manhattan. But the two didn’t work together until Peters was cast as Dot/Marie in Sunday in the Park . ‘I just remember being given the title song and thinking, “Oh wow, this is something.”’ She was, she recalls, immediately struck by the technical precision it required, and the vocal stamina, too.

As other songs would arrive in rehearsal, Peters was transfixed. ‘I can still recall feeling that this was the most glorious experience I could ever have. Every time a new song would appear, we would go, “What is that?”, and Paul Gemignani [Sondheim’s conductor of choice for years] would shape the music on us and with us.’

Before long, she was realising the truism that has come to define her career: ‘Steve writes from such a deep, deep place. I remember when Mandy [Patinkin, as Seurat] and I were given “Move On”, thinking, “This is a wonderful song”, and then you really start to live in it and realise that it’s also got an important – I don’t want to say message, since Steve hated message songs. But it talks to something important in life: how we can get so stuck and how we sometimes just have to do something to make a change.’

Peters’s connection to her material is profound, though the performer I first saw, when I was a stagestruck 10-year-old, was the comedienne with the brassy voice in the short-lived 1971 Broadway revival of On the Town , for which she was Tony-nominated. Since then, with specific reference to Sondheim, I’ve seen her as Dot and the Witch, as Momma Rose and as both a surpassingly abject Sally in Follies and an achingly tremulous Desirée in A Little Night Music .

Any song that I sing has to be one that I connect to deeply, and I have to find it in a way that’s brand new to me

As regards Follies , I recall Sondheim himself telling me once that Peters’s was the first Sally whom he felt would exit the party at which that show takes place only to head directly toward death. I’ve rarely seen a stiller, sadder ‘Losing My Mind’, as if the character were confined to a psychic paralysis.

Meanwhile, her ‘Send in the Clowns’ (also found online) possessed an emotional transparency at the opposite end of the spectrum from the theatrics of Catherine Zeta-Jones, who preceded Peters in Trevor Nunn’s production on Broadway. Had Peters opened that revival in New York, the Tony that went to Zeta-Jones would surely have gone Peters’s way, too.

From where does she summon such pathos? ‘Any song that I sing has to be one that I connect to deeply, and I have to find it in a way that’s brand new to me.’ That’s not to discredit research, though. When Peters was offered the role of Dolly Levi, taking over from Bette Midler in Hello, Dolly! early in 2018, she read the Thornton Wilder play ( The Matchmaker ) on which Jerry Herman’s 1964 musical is based.

She also went to the Lincoln Center Library to be reminded of the legendary Carol Channing’s occupancy of a role that Peters could then reshape. ‘I thought, “Let me see what Carol did,” but after that, it was about “Who is this person to me?” I always want to make it as personal as possible so that I’m never copying anybody.’

When I first interviewed Peters, in 1998 on the occasion of her exhilarating Royal Festival Hall solo concert that September which was recorded live, she spoke to me of ‘never thinking that I would ever be in a Sondheim show: I thought I was just from a different world and was someone he probably wouldn’t be interested in. I limited myself, and I was wrong.’

Twenty-five years later, Peters has indeed moved on to a place of connection with the work and the man that she speaks of with something approaching awe. ‘We did a reunion of Into the Woods [in 2015],’ Peters recalls, ‘and I thought, “Here I am playing the Witch 28 years later after having lived 28 years more.”’

She continues: ‘It was such a privilege to go back to something you know well and to bring all this new information to it: it’s as if you learn about life in Steve’s songs and his music, and I find myself wishing I could be in his next show so that I could learn more.’ In fact, Sondheim’s final show, Here We Are , is opening in New York at The Shed this autumn while Peters is performing in London.

Every time an additional song would appear in Sunday, we would go, ‘What is that?‘

One feels the decades dotted with memories as befits this one-time interpreter of Dot. Peters speaks of going with Sondheim to a Seurat exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. ‘I heard him chuckling and didn’t realise that I had started singing “Color and Light” [the song from Sunday ]. I had no idea I was even doing that.’

Peter adds: ‘When we did his 90th birthday [concert] and I spoke to him afterwards, he was amazed at how well his songs stood alone.’ Indeed, during our interview she falls more than once into an impromptu Sondheim recital – a beloved snippet of music here and there from a performer who saw the original Company in New York but missed the first productions of much of his later work during the 1970s when she was living in LA. ‘He never thought of the songs outside of the show but wrote them for the characters. That’s why the show that Cameron is putting together is so wonderful and entertaining: each number is like a play – an experience – of its own; it’s very satisfying.’

Mackintosh, in turn, is in a good position to track the progression of a performer he first got to know when he was co-producing the Broadway version of Song and Dance , in which this performer born in Ozone Park, Queens, broke hearts nightly playing a lovesick Englishwoman let loose in Manhattan.

‘Bernadette’s spirit has never changed, which is what makes her ageless,’ Mackintosh told me within the same week that I chatted to Peters. ‘She’s a brilliant actress, and what I’ve noticed is that as her voice changes, she uses her instincts as an actor not to close off anything but to gain a new level in what she gets out of the material.’

Peters can eviscerate a spectator emotionally and raise joyful laughs, as well. I shan’t soon forget her in Hey, Mr Producer! , the 1998 two-night-only tribute to Mackintosh in which she sang ‘Unexpected Song’ from Song and Dance and apologised to the London audience for any faults with her English accent: a sweet gesture that, as it turned out, was also wholly unnecessary.

In the second act, she appeared as a trumpet-toting Mazeppa, one of the strippers from Gypsy . Look for that blissful image again, but improved, in Old Friends . Says Peters of further trumpeting skills acquired over the years, ‘I think I’m better this time.’ The song ‘Old Friends’ itself grows in meaning all the time, too. Last April, she joined Kristin Chenoweth to sing it at a 90th birthday celebration, this time not of Sondheim but of her dear friend, Carol Burnett. ‘Carol came to see me in Dames at Sea when I was like 20 or 21 and put me on her show. I knew her when she was starting out and we’ve been through ups and downs together. She’s just remarkable.’

What’s extraordinary, too, is Peters’s ongoing commitment to the theatre, notwithstanding those years in Hollywood making movies like The Jerk and Pennies from Heaven , during which time she was in a relationship with Steve Martin, her leading man on both those films. (She went on to marry Michael Wittenberg, an investment adviser, who was killed in a helicopter crash in 2005, age 43.) She starred as Eleanor in the film version of the 1980s Tama Janowitz bestseller Slaves of New York and is fondly remembered for an array of TV appearances ranging from The Muppets (one can imagine Kermit as one of her pets) to Smash and the recent TV series High Desert , playing Patricia Arquette’s mum.

But the theatre is home, no one more so than Sondheim. Might she like to have a go at Mrs Lovett, at this point the obvious role from his repertoire of ladies that has so far got away? ‘Maybe somewhere [in] the future, I don’t know.’ In the meantime, she’s full of praise for both the small-scale pie-shop Sweeney Todd that travelled from London to New York and the current, contrastingly starry Sweeney revival with Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford: ‘To hear those two with a full 26-piece orchestra is just so fabulous.’

How does Peters keep her evergreen looks? ‘I exercise and eat a nice amount of protein, which puts muscle on your bones and keeps you standing up.’ (Meat vanished from her diet years ago.) ‘I do physically take care of my voice and my body: I go to the gym, lift weights, take singing lessons, keep everything up and running.’ Vocalising happens in the shower as she preps once more for an eight-performance week in which, Mackintosh says, the cast of Old Friends will all understudy one another, Peters gamely including herself in that collective approach.

So don’t look for Peters to put her feet up any time soon. ‘It’s funny, I remember when I went to see Lena Horne’s one-woman show on Broadway thinking, “I hope I’m like that when I’m 55.” And now I’m way past that. I like flexing my muscles, and if I sit back and think about it, I feel pretty grateful that I’m able to do what I do. People say the word ‘retirement’ and I don’t see any reason to do that. I live in the moment right now, and when I come out to do a show, that’s the moment that matters.’ 

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Bernadette Peters

• Born February 28 , 1948 · New York City, New York, USA
• Birth name Bernadette Anastasia Lazzara
• The Queen of Broadway
• Height 5′ 3″ (1.60 m)
• Throughout her illustrious career, Bernadette Peters has dazzled audiences and critics with her performances on stage and television, in concert, and on recordings. She is one of the most critically-acclaimed Broadway performers, having received nominations for seven Tony Awards, winning two, and eight Drama Desk Awards, winning three. Four of the Broadway cast albums on which she has starred have won Grammy Awards. Recently, she has been starring on Broadway as Dolly Gallagher Levi in the hit musical, Hello, Dolly! Bernadette was born Bernadette Lazzara on February 28, 1948 in Queens, New York City, to Marguerite (Maltese) and Peter Lazzara, a bread delivery truck driver. She is of Sicilian descent. Bernadette first performed on the stage as a child and then a teenage actor in the 1960s, and in film and television in the 1970s. She was praised for this early work and for appearances on The Muppet Show (1976) , The Carol Burnett Show (1991) and in other television work, and for her roles in films like Silent Movie (1976) , The Jerk (1979) , Pennies from Heaven (1981) and Annie (1982) . In the 1980s, she returned to the theatre, where she became one of the best-known Broadway stars over the next three decades. She also has recorded six solo albums and several singles, as well as many cast albums, and performs regularly in her own solo concert act. Peters is particularly noted for her starring roles in stage musicals, including "Song and Dance", "Sunday in the Park with George", "Into the Woods", "Annie Get Your Gun" and "Gypsy", becoming closely associated with composer Stephen Sondheim . Peters continues to act in films and on television, where she has been nominated for three Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards, winning once. Her career boasts an impressive list of television credits, which includes Amazon Prime's highly popular, Mozart in the Jungle, which won the 2016 Golden Globe for Best TV Comedy or Musical series. She also co-stars in the new CBS All Access series, The Good Fight, a spin-off of the network's popular series, The Good Wife. One of Broadway's most critically acclaimed performers, Peters has won numerous accolades including being the recipient of three Tony Awards, a Golden Globe, three Grammy nominations, three Emmy nominations and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Peters' albums include the Grammy nominated I'll Be Your Baby Tonight, Sondheim, Etc.: Bernadette Peters Live at Carnegie Hall, and Bernadette Peters Loves Rodgers & Hammerstein, in addition to numerous Grammy Award winning Broadway Cast recordings. Peters devotes her time and talents to numerous events that benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Her "pet project" Broadway Barks, co-founded with Mary Tyler Moore, is an annual, star-studded dog and cat adoption event that benefits shelter animals throughout the New York City area. She is a New York Times bestselling author who has penned three children's books, Broadway Barks, Stella Is a Star and Stella and Charlie: Friends Forever. All of her proceeds from the sale of these books benefit Broadway Barks. She had a four-year romantic relationship with comedian Steve Martin and was married to investment adviser Michael Wittenberg for over nine years until he was killed in a helicopter crash on September 26, 2005. Peters is known for her charitable work, including as a founder of the Broadway Barks animal charity. Peters resides in New York with her rescue dogs, Charlie and Rosalia. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous and Amazon Video X-Ray
• Spouse Michael Wittenberg (July 20, 1996 - September 26, 2005) (his death)
• Parents Peter Lazzara Marguerite Lazzara
• Relatives Joseph Lazzara (Sibling) Donna DeSeta (Sibling) Tian DeSeta (Niece or Nephew) Amanda DeSeta (Niece or Nephew)
• On The 57th Annual Tony Awards (2003) , she performed the climactic song "Rose's Turn" from "Gypsy", in which she was nominated that year for Best Lead Actress in a Musical. However, she had been suffering from a severe respiratory infection and had missed several performances of the show. Originally, the producers did not want her to perform live at the Tony Awards for fear of her damaging her vocal chords. She refused to cancel and insisted on performing live. She got through the song and received a 2-minute standing ovation, one of the longest in Tony history.
• She was involved with Steve Martin , her co-star in The Jerk (1979) and Pennies from Heaven (1981) , prior to his marriage to Victoria Tennant .
• Created the roles of Dot in "Sunday in the Park with George", Mabel Normand in "Mack and Mabel" and The Witch in "Into the Woods" in the original Broadway productions.
• Was on Broadway in the revival of "Gypsy" in 2003-2004. She performed in the show for a year and did over 500 performances. Peters was offered a national tour of the show, but bowed out saying, "I love this show and the role of Rose, but after playing her for a year she has worn me totally out!" The role of Mama Rose is considered one of the greatest and most difficult roles for a musical theater actress.
• Is the youngest performer to be inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame.
• You gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?
• I don't smoke, I don't drink much, I don't eat red meat. I stay out of the sun.
• Getting plenty of sleep is always great. It really is. I have a girlfriend who's sending me a slant board.
• You'd look out and there'd be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were young people seeing the show for the first time. I stayed for two years because I enjoyed it so much.
• "No One Is Alone" by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.

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• Before the Parade Passes By
• So Long Dearie
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Throughout her illustrious career, Bernadette Peters has dazzled audiences and critics with her performances on stage, film and television, in concert, and on recordings. She has garnered numerous accolades including three Tony Awards, a Golden Globe, three Emmy and four Grammy Award nominations and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Best known for her work on stage and one of Broadway’s most critically acclaimed performers, Bernadette recently participated in an all-star gala concert on London’s West End celebrating the life and work of Stephen Sondheim. The sold out one-night-only show is being revived this Fall and will play London’s Gielgud Theatre for 16 weeks.

Bernadette has starred as Dolly Gallagher Levi in the hit musical, Hello, Dolly!. She also starred in City Center’s Encores! Production, A Bed and a Chair: A New York Love Affair featuring the music of Stephen Sondheim and orchestrations by Wynton Marsalis. Prior to that, she starred in Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music and Follies.

Peters garnered both the Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for her performance in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Song and Dance. She also won a Tony Award for her performance in Annie Get Your Gun. She received Tony nominations for her outstanding performances in Sam Mendes’ critically acclaimed revival of Gypsy, in Neil Simon’s The Goodbye Girl, Stephen Sondheim’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Sunday in the Park with George, the Jerry Herman/Gower Champion ode to the movies, Mack and Mabel, and the Leonard Bernstein/Comden and Green musical On The Town. In addition to these honors, Peters earned a Drama Desk nomination for her unforgettable portrayal of the Witch in Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods.

She also enjoys a career which boasts an impressive list of television credits, including the new Apple TV+ series, High Desert which premiered on May 17th. Also, she guest-starred on the NBC-TV series, “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist” for which she earned an Emmy nomination. The popular series was made into a TV movie musical titled “Zoey’s Extraordinary Christmas” for The Roku Channel. Other recent TV appearances include “The CW’s “Katy Keene”; CBS All Access’ “The Good Fight”; and Amazon Prime’s Golden Globe winning series, “Mozart in the Jungle”.

Other television credits include NBC-TV’s “Smash,” ABC-TV’s “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Ugly Betty’. In addition to starring in the Lifetime TV movie Living Proof, Peters has lit up the silver screen in over 30 films throughout her distinguished career. She received a Golden Globe Award for her memorable performance in “Pennies From Heaven.” Other film credits include The Jerk, The Longest Yard, Silent Movie, Annie, Pink Cadillac, Slaves of New York, Woody Allen’s Alice, Impromptu, It Runs in the Family, Coming Up Roses, The Broken Hearts Gallery and most recently, a surprise appearance in the popular Jonathan Larson biopic, tick, tick…BOOM!

Bernadette has recorded six solo albums, including the Grammy-nominated I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight, Sondheim, Etc.: Bernadette Peters Live at Carnegie Hall, and Bernadette Peters Loves Rodgers & Hammerstein, in addition to numerous original Broadway cast recordings.

Peters devotes her time and talents to numerous events that benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Her “pet project” Broadway Barks, co-founded with Mary Tyler Moore, is an annual, star-studded dog and cat adoption event that benefits shelter animals in the New York City area. In 2012, The American Theater Wing recognized her efforts and awarded her with the Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award. She is a New York Times best-selling author who has penned three children’s books: Broadway Barks, Stella is a Star, and Stella and Charlie: Friends Forever. All of her proceeds from the sale of these books benefit Broadway Barks. Peters resides in New York and Los Angeles with her rescue dogs, Charlie and Rosalia.

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AT&T Performing Arts Center presents An Evening with Bernadette Peters

Throughout her illustrious career, Bernadette Peters has dazzled audiences and critics with her performances on stage, film and television, in concert, and on recordings. She has garnered numerous accolades including three Tony Awards, a Golden Globe, three Emmy and four Grammy Award nominations and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Best known for her work on stage and one of Broadway’s most critically acclaimed performers, Peters has starred as Dolly Gallagher Levi in the hit musical, Hello, Dolly! . She also starred in City Center’s Encores! Production, A Bed and a Chair: A New York Love Affair featuring the music of Stephen Sondheim and orchestrations by Wynton Marsalis. Prior to that, she starred in Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music and Follies.

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Throughout her illustrious career, Bernadette Peters has dazzled audiences and critics with her performances on stage, film and television, in concert and on recordings. She has garnered numerous accolades including three Tony Awards, a Golden Globe, three Emmy and four Grammy Award nominations and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Best known for her work on stage and one of Broadway’s most critically acclaimed performers, Bernadette recently starred on Broadway as Dolly Gallagher Levi in the hit musical,  Hello, Dolly!.  Prior to that, she starred in City Center’s Encores! production,  A Bed and a Chair: A New York Love Affair , featuring the music of Stephen Sondheim and orchestrations by Wynton Marsalis, and on Broadway in Stephen Sondheim’s  A Little Night Music  and  Follies. Peters garnered both the Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for her performance in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical,  Song and Dance . She also won a Tony Award for her performance in  Annie Get Your Gun . She received Tony nominations for her outstanding performances in Sam Mendes’ critically acclaimed revival of  Gypsy , in Neil Simon’s  The Goodbye Girl , Stephen Sondheim’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical  Sunday in the Park with George , the Jerry Herman/Gower Champion ode to the movies,  Mack and Mabel , and the Leonard Bernstein/Comden and Green musical  On the Town . In addition to these honors, Peters earned a Drama Desk nomination for her unforgettable portrayal of the Witch in Stephen Sondheim’s  Into the Woods . She also enjoys a career which boasts an impressive list of television credits, including guest-starring on the NBC-TV series, “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist ”  for which she earned an Emmy nomination. The popular series was made into a TV movie musical titled  “ Zoey’s Extraordinary Christmas ”  for The Roku Channel. Other recent TV appearances include “The CW’s “Katy Keene,” CBS All Access’  “ The Good Fight, ”  and Amazon Prime’s Golden Globe winning series,  “ Mozart in the Jungle. ”  She recently completed production on the new Apple TV series, “High Desert,” scheduled to be released early next year. Other television credits include NBC-TV’s “Smash,” ABC-TV’s “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Ugly Betty.” In addition to starring in the Lifetime TV movie  Living Proof , Peters has lit up the silver screen in over 30 films throughout her distinguished career. She received a Golden Globe Award for her memorable performance in  Pennies From Heaven . Other film credits include  The Jerk, The Longest Yard, Silent Movie,   Annie ,  Pink Cadillac ,  Slaves of New York , Woody Allen’s  Alice ,  Impromptu ,  It Runs in the Family ,  Coming Up Roses, The Broken Hearts Gallery  and most recently, a surprise appearance in the popular Jonathan Larson biopic,  tick, tick…BOOM! Bernadette has recorded six solo albums, including the Grammy-nominated  I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight, Sondheim, Etc.: Bernadette Peters Live at Carnegie Hall , and  Bernadette Peters Loves Rodgers & Hammerstein,  in addition to numerous original Broadway cast recordings. Peters devotes her time and talents to numerous events that benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Her “pet project” Broadway Barks, co-founded with Mary Tyler Moore, is an annual, star-studded dog and cat adoption event that benefits shelter animals in the New York City area. She is a  New York Times  bestselling author who has penned three children’s books:  Broadway Barks, Stella is a Star , and  Stella and Charlie: Friends Forever . All of her proceeds from the sale of these books benefit Broadway Barks. Peters resides in New York and Los Angeles with her rescue dogs, Charlie and Rosalia.

Bernadette Peters & More to Join 2024 Shubert Foundation High School Theatre Festival

The event will take place on Monday, March 25 at 7:30pm at the Winter Garden Theatre.

In its 10th year, more than 100 talented young NYC public school theatre artists will make their Broadway debuts in The 2024 Shubert Foundation High School Theatre Festival for NYC Public Schools on Monday, March 25 at 7:30pm at the Winter Garden Theatre. This annual theatre education experience for NYC students is presented by The Shubert Foundation and the NYC Department of Education Arts Office.

Bernadette Peters  (Hello, Dolly!, Follies) will host this year’s 10th annual event. Additional guest presenters, supporting public school theatre education, will include  James Caverly  (Children of a Lesser God),  Miguel Cervantes  (Hamilton), Charlotte d’Amboise (Chicago),  Jeanna de Waal  (Sweeney Todd), Trechelle Edmond (for colored girls...),  Drew Gehling  (Almost Famous),  Tamar Greene  (Hamilton), Anika Larsen (Almost Famous),  Apollo Levine  (MJ),  Julian Elijah Martinez  (Network),  Gary Perez  (Between Riverside and Crazy),  Daphne Rubin-Vega  (Rent),  Seth Rudetsky  (Disaster!),  Brandon Uranowitz  (Leopoldstadt), and  Kara Young  (Purlie Victorious).

The Shubert Festival celebrates six outstanding high school student productions from the 2023-24 school year, selected from more than 20 productions across the city by professional theatre artists and theatre educators. Over the course of the festival’s 10-year history, school productions from all five boroughs have performed at the event.

This year, student presentations from the following schools will present excerpted scenes and musical numbers in order as follows:

TITANIC – Professional Performing Arts High School (Manhattan) JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT – Lexington School for the Deaf

(Queens) MAMMA MIA! – Curtis High School (Staten Island) ZANNA DON’T! – Repertory Company High School for Theatre Arts (Manhattan) TITANIC –  Frank Sinatra School of the Arts (Queens) URINETOWN – Brooklyn High School for the Arts (Brooklyn)

The Shubert High School Theatre Festival showcases the ongoing excellent theatre work currently taking place in NYC public high schools, as well as highlighting the crucial skills of theatre study for the stage and in life: collaboration, artistry, discipline, focus, literacy, student voice, self-awareness, presence, and empathy. The evening focuses on the impact that a dedicated theatre program can have on students and school communities, enabling students to see theatre and the arts as a potential career path.

“We have seen almost 2,000 of our talented scholars make their Broadway debuts in the annual for NYC Public Schools. Celebrating its impressive 10th anniversary this year, this thrilling event makes a profound and lasting impact on our young people, their futures as professional artists and arts administrators, and on NYC Public Schools' arts education initiatives,” said Schools Chancellor David C. Banks. “We deeply appreciate our partners at the Shubert Foundation for their continued commitment to and investment in this program that enriches the lives of our students and their communities.”

“A program that has thrived for 10 years is an impressive achievement by any measure and we salute the talent of our students and the stellar drama programs of our NYC public schools that are so integral to this success,” said Diana Phillips, President of The Shubert Foundation. “When the festival began, few outside the school communities knew about these outstanding theatre programs but that has now changed. Our Shubert Foundation High School Theatre Festival has given the students and their teachers a far wider stage and even  experienced theatre goers tell us that this night is one of their favorite Broadway events. We could not be more proud."

Sponsored by The Shubert Foundation, the Festival is presented in partnership with the New York City Public Schools’ (NYCPS) Arts Office. A 2023-24 Shubert Foundation grant of $730,000 funds the Festival and supports a range of existing theatre and arts education programs in New York City public schools.

Since 2005, The Shubert Foundation has provided more than $8.6 million to the New York City Department of Education for Theatre and arts education programs.

 “When students create theater together, they demonstrate the highest levels of education—applying technique, understanding the context of the play and communicating with others towards a common powerful reminder how theatre provides a welcoming place for artists and audiences of all ages to connect, to invest, to empathize...to heal,” goal. The Festival serves as a Artistic Producer and the Director of Theatre for New York City Public Schools.

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These campy photos of a young Bernadette Peters are too gay too function

F or straight people, high school prom is a time to show out in one’s floofiest dress, a corsage gleaming on one’s wrist, while parked at the bottom of your parents’ staircase. But for gay people, prom is something different entirely. It’s a time to do one of three things:

• Be closeted and pretend everything is fine
• Skip prom like a cool kid and drink beer in the deserted school gym
• Be the (unlikely) queer kid who has an actual boyfriend (Kurt and Blaine style) who is willing to go to prom with you

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In the past, of course, there was only one option: the first one, which stipulated that we get dressed in upsettingly dated attire and attend the straightest, crappiest event of the year on the arm of some person who we decided to go with last minute so we wouldn’t have to go alone. And yes, I am very obviously spilling my own tea here, but I am not the only one. Witness, for example, this incredible tweet that really says it all:

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If you’re wondering who in the hell that red cowboy-booted guy is floating above Broadway legend Bernadette Peters is, it happens to be choreographer Christopher d’Amboise.

These stills were taken for Song and Dance , an obscure Andrew Lloyd Webber musical from 1985. But that doesn’t explain the sheer exuberance of d’Amboise in these photos: is he really that excited to be in Song and Dance ? Is it just that being in the proximity of Bernadette is that exciting? Most of us, sadly, will never know.

It’s not easy to show Bernadette up, but d’Amboise did it.

The post even got folks talking about their queer prom moments…

“Slay the house down boots” just got new meaning.

Should you desire to watch Song and Dance in its entirely, someone on YouTube has you covered. It’s a great day to be gay!