So what show is Bernadette doing in the fall?- Page 3
So what show is Bernadette doing in the fall?
#50re: So what show is Bernadette doing in the fall?
Posted: 7/13/09 at 2:40amAlso, correct me if I'm wrong in my thought that Natasha Richardson was the original choice for Desiree, are we supposed to have believed that she was somewhere between 35 and 40? She was a stunning, striking woman, but I think she looked every bit of 45. She may have looked better at 45 than most of us will/did at 25, but nonetheless.
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Feb. 28 - Looped, Feb. 28 - Next to Normal, March 4 - Hair, March 11 - A Little Night Music, March 24 - Time Stands Still, April 6 - La Cage Aux Folles, April 10 - Anyone Can Whistle (City Center), April 10 - Looped, May 9 - Enron, May 15 - A Little Night Music, May 15 - A Behanding In Spokane, May 30 - A Behanding In Spokane, May 30 - A Little Night Music, June 20 - A Little Night Music, June 23 - Red, June 23 - Sondheim on Sondheim, July 13 - A Little Night Music, July 18 - The Grand Manner (Lincoln Center)
#51re: So what show is Bernadette doing in the fall?
Posted: 7/13/09 at 4:41pmis there any chance that she's going to be doing a play? I'm not super familiar with the plays this fall, but I was thinking it's not impossible.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
#52re: So what show is Bernadette doing in the fall?
Posted: 7/13/09 at 4:55pmHonestly, if she says she's coming to Broadway in the fall that means the show would probably have been announced by this point and the only thing that she could go into I'm thinking is NIGHT MUSIC.
#53re: So what show is Bernadette doing in the fall?
Posted: 7/13/09 at 4:59pm
maybe she'll be Gertrude in Hamlet.
although I kind of think this is not the best idea ever.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#54re: So what show is Bernadette doing in the fall?
Posted: 7/13/09 at 5:00pmShe may not have been referring to doing a play or musical...
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
#55re: So what show is Bernadette doing in the fall?
Posted: 7/13/09 at 5:02pmis it bigger than a breadbox?
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
#56re: So what show is Bernadette doing in the fall?
Posted: 7/13/09 at 5:03pmI cannot believe people are really thinking it's ALNM, lol.
#57re: So what show is Bernadette doing in the fall?
Posted: 7/13/09 at 5:04pmlol. I thought the OP said she said it was a Broadway show. If not than maybe she's just doing a few concerts. That'd be great, too.
#58re: So what show is Bernadette doing in the fall?
Posted: 7/13/09 at 10:58pm
When she said that in the interview, my first thought was actually "Ragtime", perhaps as Emma Goldman.
That would be a REALLY small part for her, though. I highly doubt the project is ALNM. Could she possibly be playing Queen Gertrude in the Jude Law "Hamlet"? Finally, if not the Encores "Anyone Can Whistle" (which she may be doing anyway) it could also be the Encores production of "Girl Crazy".
And whoever out there said that LuPone would be a good Dolly, as much as I love her, that sounds like the worst idea EVER. Peters for Dolly all the way. (how overdue for a revival of that show are we? REALLY overdue.) I'd just be happy for any major NY production of Dolly.
Updated On: 7/13/09 at 10:58 PM
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#59re: So what show is Bernadette doing in the fall?
Posted: 7/13/09 at 11:04pmAll the roles in Hair.
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
#60re: So what show is Bernadette doing in the fall?
Posted: 7/13/09 at 11:04pmIsn't Queen Latifah still eyeing the DOLLY revival?
#61re: So what show is Bernadette doing in the fall?
Posted: 7/14/09 at 12:54ami wasn't even aware there was a dolly revival in the works. I thought it was all just stupid speculation from nerds like us.
#62re: So what show is Bernadette doing in the fall?
Posted: 7/14/09 at 1:06am
"lol. I thought the OP said she said it was a Broadway show"
The interviewer asked if she was 'returning to Broadway' and she said there was 'something exciting' happening that she 'can't talk about', IIRC.
There was no specifics.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#63re: So what show is Bernadette doing in the fall?
Posted: 7/14/09 at 12:55pm
"All the roles in Hair."
Haha yes! She actually auditioned for the original production of Hair.
#64re: So what show is Bernadette doing in the fall?
Posted: 7/14/09 at 12:59pmI had a chance to watch "Theatre Talk" on PBS. Arthur Laurents was talking about Patti, Bernadette and Sam Mendes. I could have sworn he mentioned something about Bernadette and a play in the fall. Since I'm here..... I've been listening to XM Sirius Broadway. I love most of the artists.. but there worst (in my opinion) have been: Katharine Hepburn (love her ... acting), Lauren Bacall (she tries... but she won 2 Tonys with THAT voice?), "Summer Nights" (Grease) recent revival....ugh! so uninspired and Harvey Fierstein (I would love to see him act a role... but singing.... that's not singing.. that's croaking.)
"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)
#65re: So what show is Bernadette doing in the fall?
Posted: 7/14/09 at 1:22pmYou're right! I completely forgot about that! Laurents said he was working on a new play with Bernadette Peters & Lauren Bacall (I believe) that was scheduled for the fall. But that was in CT, I think it was going to premiere.
#66re: So what show is Bernadette doing in the fall?
Posted: 7/14/09 at 2:15pmI haven't read this whole thread, but while Whistle sounds like something that could happen, isn't she supposed to be in the new C.M. Laurents play with Betty Bacal? That could happen in the fall.
#67re: So what show is Bernadette doing in the fall?
Posted: 7/14/09 at 3:13pm
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
Updated On: 7/14/09 at 03:13 PM
--Aristotle
#68re: So what show is Bernadette doing in the fall?
Posted: 7/14/09 at 3:18pmDamn, I was hoping for SIDE SHOW.
#69re: So what show is Bernadette doing in the fall?
Posted: 7/14/09 at 3:50pm
So Bernadette is potentially going to do TWO of Arthur's shows in one season?! Poor woman, may heaven have mercy on her soul.
P
#70re: So what show is Bernadette doing in the fall?
Posted: 7/15/09 at 3:10amTwo?
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
#71re: So what show is Bernadette doing in the fall?
Posted: 7/15/09 at 3:13amAnyone can whistle+play?
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#72re: So what show is Bernadette doing in the fall?
Posted: 7/15/09 at 8:05pm
ANYONE CAN WHISTLE + NEW PLAY (NEW YEAR'S EVE?)
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#73re: So what show is Bernadette doing in the fall?
Posted: 7/15/09 at 9:21pmI heard that Bernadette was doing a one night concert in November for Broadway Barks on Broadway so it might not be a show that she's doing.
#74re: So what show is Bernadette doing in the fall?
Posted: 7/15/09 at 9:38pmshe could be doing a show and do the concert when the show is dark.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
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