Bernadette's Rose's Turn - Tony Awards

I just noticed that somebody posted a better quality version of Bernadette's performance from the Tony Awards. The clip has been available on YouTube for a few years, but the sound and picture quality weren't as good as this version which was just added in January.

What a performance. Hands down my favorite Rose.
Bernadette Peters - 5 Mins Prior to Robbery

Why would it be deleted?

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You know what? I've never been a fan of BP's but I had an afternoon free and I got a half price ticket for this at TKTS. I had a terrible seat in one of the boxes and with all of that going against it - I was completely floored by her Rose. She was so incredible that afternoon that I could hardly speak. I specifically said 'that afternoon' because I heard that the quality of her performance was not consistent. I'm just grateful I got to see her on one of her better days. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen it done better.

(And to be perfectly honest - I wouldn't cross the street for PL)

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The night I saw it - not long before it closed, mind you - she hit it out of the park and beyond. She made a believer out of this doubter.

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Dude, I would kill to see that.

Do you think she would sign?

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Not to toot my own av, but Ann Crumb would be a killer Rose.

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No one was questioning that, Diva.

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What a great April day!
I flew in for a matinee of NINE and an evening performance of GYPSY! NINE was miraculous.
I loved the production of GYPSY but I did feel like I needed to help Peters up on to that stool to steal her dad's plaque. She needed a hand that night.

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In 10 years, I'll bet Audra McDonald does the role.

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I with you BFB.

I thought the whole thing was a mediocre show, at best. Serviceable, but nothing fantastic about it.

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But she was exhausted from the start.
Rose dragged them around by choice.
Most people were trying to talk her into settling down.

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"And I never felt like she was tired because she'd been singing for two hours- I thought she was exhausted because she'd been dragging two ungrateful kids through Show Biz for 20 years and was at the end of her rope."


There are these little lines of dialogue before she sings Rose's Turn, talking about how if she ever let out what was inside of her, there wouldn't be signs big enough or lights bright enough! Rose's Turn is just that... her TURN. Not her chance to be exhausted from it all. Not her time to throw in the towel. Good God. She's furious and hurt and SHE'LL SHOW 'EM ALL. THAT's what the song is about. Of course, she chokes on her own self-promises, in the middle of the "why did I do it" part... but she picks herself up and finishes "FOR ME" in a HUGE way.

Anything less than that is...

...LESS than that.

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