Can You Name This Bernadette Peters Costume?

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 5/6/11 at 12:14am

It's got at tag from Barbara Matera's in it and it looks like something from the 90's but can't place it.

Can you?

[bwayfan7000]

Posted: 5/6/11 at 12:19am

Gypsy?

[Eris0303]

Posted: 5/6/11 at 12:26am

I don't recall her her wearing anything that "fancy" in Gypsy. It doesn't strike me as anything that would fit her Broadway shows. The bolero top made me think "Annie Get Your Gun" but I'm not sure of that either. Seems too fancy for Annie as well.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 5/6/11 at 12:40am

Maybe from a concert?

[Eris0303]

Posted: 5/6/11 at 12:46am

Or a film? Are you sure it's Bernadette's? Could it be another "Miss Peters"?

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 5/6/11 at 12:48am

Are you trying to say there is more than one Miss Peters on Broadway?!

:/

[fashionguru_23]

Posted: 5/6/11 at 12:48am

Are we sure this is from Broadway? Maybe she wore it to the Tony's?

The only thing that, to me, comes close is that one dress she wrote in Gypsy, in that photo with her hands out, sitting on a block or trunk. Not the same, but closest thing I could find.

Also, looks too classy for "The Goodbye Girl"

[Eris0303]

Posted: 5/6/11 at 12:50am

Are you trying to say there is more than one Miss Peters on Broadway?!

:/

Maybe a lost chorus girl whose only claim to fame is having the same last night as The Fabulous One?

[SNAFU]

Posted: 5/6/11 at 12:57am

Pennys From Heaven perhaps?

[Eris0303]

Posted: 5/6/11 at 12:59am

I had that same thought, Snafu, and I even googled it but didn't find a picture of that dress.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 5/6/11 at 1:01am

ON THE TOWN

[SNAFU]

Posted: 5/6/11 at 1:05am

Thing is I have seen her in that dress, I know it. I thought it might have been from I Wanna Be Bad in Pennies but could't find i.

[Idiot]

Posted: 5/6/11 at 1:52am

SONG AND DANCE

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 5/6/11 at 2:10am

Any chance you could take a picture of the full dress? The skirt might help.

[moljul]

Posted: 5/6/11 at 11:29am

It's definitely not the dress from Gypsy you are thinking about, fashionguru. That dress had a much more conservative neckline. I have a picture but can't post it right now. I'm going with Pennies From Heaven - not I Wanna Be Bad, that dress is peach colored and much more a dance costume. But maybe a dress she wore while her character was a prostitute. I'm thinking maybe when Eileen and Arthur first meet up again.

[newintown]

Posted: 5/6/11 at 11:35am

I vote for On The Town.

[LoveDemBroadwayShows2]

Posted: 5/6/11 at 11:41am

Maybe it was for Roberta Peters----similar stature.

[moljul]

Posted: 5/6/11 at 12:05pm

NewinTown, that would have been my other guess. There is one picture of her dancing (she is being held in a slight dip) from that show and I was thinking that might be the dress. But for the life of me, I can't find the picture anywhere. Does anyone else know what picture from On The Town, I'm referring to?

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 5/6/11 at 2:54pm

Yes, that's why I guessed ON THE TOWN to begin with, but I can't find pics either, gonna try Bob Mackie...

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 5/6/11 at 4:00pm

I thought it might have been from I Wanna Be Bad in Pennies but could't find i.

Nope... it sho' isn't the "I Wanna Be Bad" dress from PENNIES FROM HEAVEN:

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 5/6/11 at 4:35pm

Husk, can you not see the picture of the full dress? I posted a total of three pictures and one shows the skirt...

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 5/13/11 at 4:28pm

I may have found it.
<<<<<<-----
ON THE TOWN Revival,
costumes be Ray Aghayan and Bob Mackie
? Updated On: 5/13/11 at 04:28 PM

[moljul]

Posted: 5/13/11 at 4:42pm

I think that's the one On The Town and I were referring to. There is an actual photo of Bernadette dancing in the costume. Wish we could locate that and know for sure.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 5/13/11 at 5:01pm

Close up, Hirschfeld captured the stars on the bra and sleeve sections.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 5/13/11 at 5:11pm

Holy Cow!

I think you've done it!