"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
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes. -Harold Prince
That made me sad ---- but it might be the only one that did. (But I need to think a tad more.)
I wonder if nominators saw her performance PRE covid or now. From everything that's been discussed, her performance has changed a tremendous amount. (I only saw it in '22.)
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
This is almost certainly a case of nominators seeing the performance early in the run. Most who saw it early on said it was rough, and while she has grown tremendously in the time since if they only saw an early performance that is all they can judge on.
David walked into the valley
With a stone clutched in his hand
He was only a boy
But he knew someone must take a stand
There will always be a valley
Always mountains one must scale
There will always be perilous waters
Which someone must sail
-Into the Fire
Scarlet Pimpernel
TaffyDavenport said: "I disagree. The correct actresses were nominated, and, fortunately, art is subjective, so no one's opinion is "right.""
I agree with you. I'm Katrina's fan but each time I went to see Company, I couldn't shake off the feeling that Patty and Jennifer had bigger presence and weight on stage, despite them being in featured roles. Both of them were rightfully nominated.
Yes, art is subjective. I have seen hundreds of shows and thought she gave literally the single best performance I have ever seen on a stage. No performance has ever affected me more. Her snub is disgraceful.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical
Sharon D Clarke, Caroline, or Change Sutton Foster, The Music Man Joaquina Kalukango, Paradise Square Katrina Lenk, Company Mare Winningham, Girl from the North Country
Huss417 said: "Odd that TimeOut has her as being nominated.
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical
Sharon D Clarke,Caroline, or Change Sutton Foster,The Music Man Joaquina Kalukango,Paradise Square Katrina Lenk,Company Mare Winningham,Girl from the North Country
This morning we are honored to present the annual TONY* nominations, which recognize the best work on Broadway in the 2021–22 season. But first, let us be as clear as we can be: TONY is an acronym for Time Out New York, and the list below represents the Broadway shows and artists that we here at TONY (Time Out New York) would nominate for the actual Tony Awards (Antoinette Perry Awards) if we were the nominating committee for the Tony Awards, which we are not. Please note, too, that these are our choices andnot our predictions of what will be nominated for Tony Awards when the real nominations are announced live at 9am on Monday, May 9. In this busy Broadway comeback season, there were many worthy candidates, and it wasn’t easy to choose among them. But choose we have—using the eligibility and category decisions of the real Tony Awards as guidelines—and here are the results. Without further ado: Congratulations to the 2022 TONY* nominees!
jacobtsf said: "This is almost certainly a case of nominators seeing the performance early in the run. Most who saw it early on said it was rough, and while she has grown tremendously in the time since if they only saw an early performance that is all they can judge on."
I haven't been following the conversation, but I finally saw the show recently and thought her voice was fine, but her acting choices were my least favorite thing about the show. Distractingly bad.
Huss417 said: "Odd that TimeOut has her as being nominated.
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical
Sharon D Clarke,Caroline, or Change Sutton Foster,The Music Man Joaquina Kalukango,Paradise Square Katrina Lenk,Company Mare Winningham,Girl from the North Country
TaffyDavenport said: "Huss417 said: "Odd that TimeOut has her as being nominated.
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical
Sharon D Clarke,Caroline, or Change Sutton Foster,The Music Man Joaquina Kalukango,Paradise Square Katrina Lenk,Company Mare Winningham,Girl from the North Country
The only women that were robbed are Nikki Renee Daniels and Britney Coleman who were FAR BETTER in the role as understudies than Katrina... Bobbie made the most sense being a black woman.
ashley0139 said: "Yes, art is subjective. I have seen hundreds of shows and thought she gave literally the single best performance I have ever seen on a stage. No performance has ever affected me more. Her snub is disgraceful."
And that is why art is subjective. If you were a nominator and thought she gave an incredible performance, you would have rightfully voted for her. But just because these nominators disagreed doesn't in any way make it "disgraceful".
ashley0139 said: "Yes, art is subjective. I have seen hundreds of shows and thought she gave literally the single best performance I have ever seen on a stage. No performance has ever affected me more. Her snub is disgraceful."
Overturning Roe v Wade is "disgraceful". The voters having a different opinion than you is not.
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
stoptheworld38 said: "You are so right and you should say it. Facts."
I know we've all got a flare for the dramatics in this community (myself included), but come on. There's a lot of horrors going on in the world right now. Katrina getting snubbed isn't one.
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman