Favorite Bernadette Peters cast recording?

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Favorite Bernadette Peters cast recording?

Posted: 10/18/05 at 11:15pm

What is your favorite Bernadette Peters cast recording? Mine are DAMES AT SEA, GEORGE M!, INTO THE WOODS and SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE. Wish I could add SONG AND DANCE to the list, but her voice didn't seem quite right in that recording.

Pity CURLEY McDIMPLE was never recorded.

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#2

re: Favorite Bernadette Peters cast recording?

Posted: 10/18/05 at 11:17pm

I think Into The Woods is probably my favorite.

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#3

re: Favorite Bernadette Peters cast recording?

Posted: 10/18/05 at 11:19pm

I think Mack & Mabel. Good as the ladies are on the other two recordings, I just think Bernadette has 'em all beat.

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re: Favorite Bernadette Peters cast recording?

Posted: 10/18/05 at 11:19pm

Love them all.

But I would have to say GYPSY is my favorite. I've dreamt of hearing her sing that score, and seeing it live was a dream come true.

So glad to have that show preserved.

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#5

re: Favorite Bernadette Peters cast recording?

Posted: 10/18/05 at 11:19pm

For me it's a tie between MACK & MABEL and SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE.

#6

re: Favorite Bernadette Peters cast recording?

Posted: 10/18/05 at 11:26pm

Definitely Gypsy, I'm actually listening to it right now. The 2003 Gypsy revival was the first show I ever saw on Broadway so I have a special attachment to this recording, and her performance was so haunting, after seeing her perform Rose's Turn I sort of decided to be a playwright just because I was able to see how beautiful and at the same time disturbing a scene on stage can be. After Gypsy, I'd say Sunday in the Park with George, she goes through so many emotions starting with the funny and yet sometimes sad opening number and ending with one of the most beautiful love songs in musical theater "Move On."

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#7

re: Favorite Bernadette Peters cast recording?

Posted: 10/18/05 at 11:26pm

I have to say Into the Woods and Gypsy are my favorites.

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#8

re: Favorite Bernadette Peters cast recording?

Posted: 10/18/05 at 11:30pm

"Mack & Mabel" and "Song & Dance" for me please.

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#9

re: Favorite Bernadette Peters cast recording?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 12:22am

Each and every one of them!!!!

#10

re: Favorite Bernadette Peters cast recording?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 12:25am

Into the Woods.

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#11

re: Favorite Bernadette Peters cast recording?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 12:46am

Has to be DAMES AT SEA.And worst...SONG AND DANCE, the accent ugh.

#12

re: Favorite Bernadette Peters cast recording?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 12:56am

Does she sing all the songs in Song & Dance or only the first act?

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#13

re: Favorite Bernadette Peters cast recording?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 1:08am

Choosing your favorite Bernie CR is like having to choose your favorite child. What a Sophie's Choice.

I might be unconventional and go for the 2003 Gypsy Revival. It is everything I have wanted in Gypsy for years (plus like 'Gypsy' is my second favorite musical).

#14

re: Favorite Bernadette Peters cast recording?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 1:11am

The first act of SONG AND DANCE is all sung, by one actress. The second act is all dance.

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re: Favorite Bernadette Peters cast recording?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 2:20am

Into the Woods and Gypsy

#16

re: Favorite Bernadette Peters cast recording?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 2:58am

Wow, that sounds like an unconventional piece, was Bernadette in the second act at all? No wonder this show has not been revived.

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#17

re: Favorite Bernadette Peters cast recording?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 10:52am

Yes, she was briefly in the second act and even danced a bit but the second act is primarily about Joe, one of Emma's loves, and how he deals with his life after he loses her.

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re: Favorite Bernadette Peters cast recording?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 11:23am

Into the Woods, though Bernie's "Look what happened to Mabel" tops my all-time favorite showtunes.

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#19

re: Favorite Bernadette Peters cast recording?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 11:24am

SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE.

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#20

re: Favorite Bernadette Peters cast recording?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 12:05pm

I love them all!

But my top 5 is:

1. Sunday in the Park with George
2. Mack and Mabel
3. Goodbye Girl
4. Into the Woods
5. Song and Dance

#21

re: Favorite Bernadette Peters cast recording?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 12:24pm

Sunday...no question...

#22

re: Favorite Bernadette Peters cast recording?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 2:34pm

The Goodbye Girl
Annie Get Your Gun

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#23

re: Favorite Bernadette Peters cast recording?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 2:39pm

#1 - Sunday in the park...
2 - Mack & Mabel
3- Song & Dance
4- Into the Woods

Though I enjoy the rest, they don't seem to hit my CD player as often as these 4. These also happened prior to her getting the huskier tones in her voice (AGYG/Gypsy).

#24

re: Favorite Bernadette Peters cast recording?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 4:33pm

I was originally going to say SONG & DANCE, then I read other's post and totally forgot about SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE, so I have to say now SUNDAY IN THE PARK...But you can't not love Bernadette!

#25

re: Favorite Bernadette Peters cast recording?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 5:18pm

I sooo had forgotten about "Annie Get Your Gun," although it's not as great as Gypsy or her Sondheim shows, I could listen to her version of "You Can't Get A Man With A Gun" 20000 times and still love it and love her!

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