Posted: 4/26/18 at 6:08pm
I just discovered 2002's "Bernadette Peters Loves Rodgers and Hammerstein". Her "There Is Nothing Like a Dame" is a particularly good arrangement.
Other than TV's "Cinderella", in which she was fantastic, I can't find any record of her performing in a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. She's done Berlin, Sondheim, and now Herman, but no R&H. I can't find a history of her off-Broadway, tour or regional work (if there is any).
It got me thinking...was the album a form of audition? What revivals came up or were rumored? Even if there weren't, what parts would have been right for her? What parts could she step into now?
Patti's expressed regret that she didn't play Nellie Forbush on Broadway (but did earlier in her career), and she's also never starred in an R&H musical on Broadway. Is it that they're aren't roles for the brassy, sassy broads in R&H's works?
