Bernadette as Mame???
Bernadette as Mame???
#0Bernadette as Mame???
Posted: 7/30/06 at 3:18pmNow that the Kennedy Center "Mame" did not make it to Broadway and the Nederlanders still want to produce revivals of Jerry Herman's musicals, what about Bernadette Peters as "Mame?" Forgetting her age since she does not look it and considering her experience with Jerry Herman scores, I think she'd make a great "Mame" and sell tickets! Time Heals Everything!
#1re: Bernadette as Mame???
Posted: 7/30/06 at 3:29pm
I think the story is that Peters is more interested in the "other" Jerry Herman show with the big title song.
#2re: Bernadette as Mame???
Posted: 7/30/06 at 3:37pm
I think the story is that Peters is more interested in the "other" Jerry Herman show with the big title song.
you mean, shes mor interested in Mrs. Santa Claus?
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#3re: Bernadette as Mame???
Posted: 7/30/06 at 3:46pmShe is going to play all three roles in JERRY'S GIRLS....
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#4re: Bernadette as Mame???
Posted: 7/30/06 at 3:55pmIs it really going to happen? or Is she just interested in doing it?
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#7re: Bernadette as Mame???
Posted: 7/30/06 at 5:08pmDolly would be great too! The woman can do anything she wants at this point.
#8re: Bernadette as Mame???
Posted: 7/30/06 at 5:10pm
wow.
lol
i do hope this happens. like, my life would be complete.
#9re: Bernadette as Mame???
Posted: 7/30/06 at 5:47pm
That would be fun!
I've never gotten to see Mame in any form, I was sad it didn't make it.
#10re: Bernadette as Mame???
Posted: 7/30/06 at 6:10pm
Mame at the Kennedy Center
https://www.broadwayworld.tv/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=10512
#11re: Bernadette as Mame???
Posted: 7/30/06 at 6:38pm
Now that a stage production of MAME has been successful once more - perhaps Jerry Herman is ready to do the television musical he's been promising for years.
BUT - without Cher, please.
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#12re: Bernadette as Mame???
Posted: 7/30/06 at 6:40pmBernadette needs to originate another role. Enough with the revivals.
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#13re: Bernadette as Mame???
Posted: 7/30/06 at 7:14pmGee.. can't say that I see it. Great talent, but don't think its fit.
#14re: Bernadette as Mame???
Posted: 7/30/06 at 7:46pm
Bernie can do whatever she wants 
She has enough talent and I think she'd be great in MAME 
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#15re: Bernadette as Mame???
Posted: 7/30/06 at 8:08pmBernadette could pull off Mame, but I think there are other performers out there better suited to the role. As for Dolly, I think that ought to go to Tovah Feldshuh...I saw her at the Papermill, and I thought she was fabulous...maybe not ready for Broadway yet, but a few voice lessons could take care of that.
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#16re: Bernadette as Mame???
Posted: 7/30/06 at 8:16pmI was just thinking... Wow! Peters has reached that stage when she is considered for Dolly or Mame.... isn't that the first sign of decline in a musical theatre actors career?
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#17re: Bernadette as Mame???
Posted: 7/30/06 at 8:18pm
i wouldn't say that i mean hell Elaine Stritch is still acting.
I agree i would love to see bernie create a role.
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#18re: Bernadette as Mame???
Posted: 7/31/06 at 12:18pmBarbra Streisand asked Jerry Herman to make one change for the TV version. She wanted It's Today to be a solo. He refused. Barbra refused to make the TV version. No matter how Jerry feels, more people would have seen that Streisand TV version of Mame than any of Jerry's stage productions put together.
#19re: Bernadette as Mame???
Posted: 7/31/06 at 12:37pmBarbra could have performed it as a solo and then the ensemble could have performed the reprise.
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#20re: Bernadette as Mame???
Posted: 7/31/06 at 6:17pm
I was just thinking... Wow! Peters has reached that stage when she is considered for Dolly or Mame.... isn't that the first sign of decline in a musical theatre actors career?
Your statement doesn't make any sense. Peters is 58 this year. When Lansbury went into rehearsals for "Mame" she was 39. Channing was 43 when she opened in "Hello Dolly!". Therefore how at nearly sixty can playing a character that was first introduced on the Broadway stage by women nearly twenty years her junior be detrimental to her career? Not to mention that after playing "Mame", Lansbury went on to star in "Dear World", "Prettybelle", "Gypsy" and "Sweeney Todd" only choosing to end her stage appearances by doing television. Playing Mame Dennis certainly didn't hinder her. Furthermore, how old a character do you think Peters should be playing at this time of her life? Hmmm....Peters as Belle? Millie? Peggy Sawyer? Tracy Turnblad?...Annie???
#21re: Bernadette as Mame???
Posted: 7/31/06 at 6:35pmI think Peters is done with revivals for now. SHe has said several times that she wants her next musical to be original.
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#23re: Bernadette as Mame???
Posted: 7/31/06 at 9:34pmNo! No! No! This is a truly awful idea. She is no MAME. Mammy Yokum maybe, but not Mame.
#24re: Bernadette as Mame???
Posted: 7/31/06 at 10:53pm
RUMOR IS...
Bernadette is seriously considering the title role in OUR AMERICAN COUSIN.
Arthur Laurents says she's going to play the role the way he always envisioned it.
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