Bernatte Peters lackluster performance.....- Page 2

[Gaveston2]

Posted: 2/27/12 at 3:17pm

Well, AC, I'd like to say I'll do my best to represent the California contingent and do my share of bashing. But in fact I expect to thoroughly enjoy Ms. Clark. I'm very excited that she was cast.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 2/27/12 at 3:33pm

Patti LuPone is about as sexy as a pound of ground beef. Thats why Sondheim doesn't return her calls. She's not a Sally and she's not a Desiree.

[Gaveston2]

Posted: 2/27/12 at 5:23pm

^^^Well, she was a wonderful Joanne, so Sondheim ought to return at least one call. Lupone was the first Joanne I've ever heard who realized that "Ladies Who Lunch" actually has a Latin beat. But it isn't a role that calls for sexiness.

I know several straight men who say they find her sexually disturbing. For some reason she threatens them. One went so far as to describe her open mouth as a vagina with teeth.

Straight men! Who can explain 'em?

[best12bars]

Posted: 2/27/12 at 6:38pm

I remember Bernatte Peters. She guest-starred on Good Times with Bern Nadette Stanis.

[lupone76]

Posted: 2/27/12 at 6:49pm

ok shoot me cause I made a typo. I see this is a very childish board where one can not have and voice an opinion. The only reason i brought patti into it at all is because both stars are constantly being compared because they both are talanted broadway divas whose careers sometime overlap eventhough there performance styles are as different as night and day. with that said, i feel that patti imo is a much more natural and effortless actress who can even excell in straight plays as well unlike bernadette who has never played in a non musical. and on top of that patti can still hit the notes and belt out a song where as bernadette simply cant as evidenced by the 4 different performances i saw of follies during its recent run. also, as a bit of trivia patti just missed 1 performance of gypsy during the entire run and ms peters when she played the same role back in 2003, missed quite a few preview performances cause her voice couldn't handle the demands of the role..





Updated On: 2/27/12 at 06:49 PM

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 2/27/12 at 7:07pm

also, as a bit of trivia patti just missed 1 performance of gypsy during the entire run and ms peters when she played the same role back in 2003, missed quite a few preview performances cause her voice couldn't handle the demands of the role.

Actually Patti missed 3 performances.

Updated On: 2/27/12 at 07:07 PM

[Dollypop]

Posted: 2/27/12 at 7:09pm

"Bernatte" sounds like the name of a knitting wool my mother used to use.

[Taryn]

Posted: 2/27/12 at 7:21pm

I thought Bernadette overacted the role like crazy.

[NoHSMisNotAMusical]

Posted: 2/27/12 at 7:29pm

lupone76- You're right! This is a childish board. But Patti Lupone has nothing to do with this thread. Don't be that one person who always brings up the same show/performer.

Describing Lupone's mouth as a vagina with teeth is pretty accurate. If I saw her on the street I'd run for my life.

[Gaveston2]

Posted: 2/27/12 at 8:19pm

Just to be clear, the "vagina dentata" was an image of a straight friend of mine.

I like Lupone and have no problem with her mouth.

[BroadwayFan12]

Posted: 2/27/12 at 9:39pm

lupone76, get your facts straight. After Bernadette recovered from the illness she had at the beginning of Gypsy's run, she missed ONE performance over the next year. You can love Patti all you want, but she is irrelevant to this thread. Updated On: 2/27/12 at 09:39 PM

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 2/27/12 at 9:43pm

This thred is child ish and inmature.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 2/27/12 at 10:50pm

Best thread in years.

BRING BACK BERNATTE!

[Matt2]

Posted: 2/27/12 at 11:00pm

"I see this is a very childish board where one can not have and voice an opinion."

lupone76, you are more than free to voice your opinion here. Just don't expect everyone to agree with your personal preference. This may shock you, but people have different tastes and opinions on all subjects, especially something as subjective as the quality of actors and their performances.

[binau]

Posted: 2/28/12 at 12:20am

ms peters when she played the same role back in 2003, missed quite a few preview performances cause her voice couldn't handle the demands of the role.

According to ATC she missed 9 performances in total. 8 were during previews or shortly after opening, and 1 was a personal day when her husband had surgery. Didn't she have a respiratory infection or something early on? (i.e. it was more complicated than simply her voice not being up to it).

I guess I am lucky, I only saw FOLLIES once - the first Broadway preview. Bernadette's voice was almost perfect and she gave what I thought was a spectacularly moving, dreary (in a good way) performance as Sally.

[Hanna from Hamburg]

Posted: 2/28/12 at 7:55am

i prefer it when the shift key on a computer works. its much better than when it dont. i also like it when therearnt so many typos and grammatical errors.

[theeatah]

Posted: 2/28/12 at 8:51am

LuPone Losing Her Mind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52_zpJLPZ4o

I like to imagine she's singing it down the phone to Eric Schaeffer.

[ljay889]

Posted: 2/28/12 at 12:15pm

^ Wow, I've never heard Patti sing Losing My Mind!
I love it, but I'd hope she never thought she was appropriate for that role.

Also - it was actually Trevor Nunn who didn't return her call about Desiree, not Sondheim. She clearly has a good relationship with Sondheim.

Updated On: 2/28/12 at 12:15 PM

[devonian.t]

Posted: 2/28/12 at 1:01pm

I'd love to see Ms Peeturs in No No Nanadette.

But I prefer Christine Chernawerth. Does that make her the best?

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 2/28/12 at 3:52pm

They're their now, lets not get all snippy. Every won ha's a write to there opinion's.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 2/28/12 at 5:39pm

I like "ha's."

In fact, I may ha've to start writing it like that.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 2/28/12 at 5:48pm

Ewe can u'se apo'strophy's any wear for any rea'son. They're are no rule's.

[My Oh My]

Posted: 2/28/12 at 6:21pm

This reminds me of all those self-professed 'fans' of Les Miserables who go on to say sh*t like John Val Jean, Frauntine, and Le Miz!

And, excuse me...the one person who brings up the same performer/show...that title clearly belongs to me.

At any rate, Bernaette and bareback porn makes for hilarity. Seed her raw throat, y'all.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 2/28/12 at 7:10pm

I keep thinking, "This thread won't get better. It just can't."

And then it does, over and over.

[theaternut]

Posted: 2/28/12 at 8:20pm

The title of this thread is so nasty and mean spirited. Meant purely to irritate people who enjoyed her and her fans. I hope"lupone76" is ready for the **** load of bad karma coming his or her way. Grab on to something honey. It is coming.