| Author | Message: The Veiw, Regis and Bernadette!!!!!! | Posted by: Starling91
On: 3/19/1999 at 4:32:00 PM GMT
Message #: 987
See headers | This was sent to me by a friend...I don;t know where she got it from, but it
is great!
BERNADETTE PETERS
Some very exciting news on the Bernadette Peters front . . . Peters, who was
originally scheduled to be a guest on Live with Regis and Kathie Lee this
Tuesday, March 23 will now co-host the entire hour-long program that morning
with Regis Philbin. Philbin will also join Peters for a duet of Annie Get Your
Gun's "Anything You Can Do." Also, the Tony winner is set to sing her lovely,
poignant rendition of Irving Berlin's "Moonshine Lullaby" on ABC's "The View"
on Tuesday, April 13. Be sure to set your VCRs for both appearances . . .
Speaking of Annie Get Your Gun, Peters is simply wonderful on the advance two-
track sampler audio cassette I received earlier this week Angel Records. BP
sounds terrific, whether she's soloing on "You Can't Get a Man with a Gun"
(mining the song for all its comic value while tackling the high passages with
skill; listen to the force of her belt when she sings "you can't get a hug
from a mug with a slug") or dueting with her Frank Butler, Tom Wopat, on one
of the show's most enjoyable sequences, "Anything You Can Do." The two sound
lovely together and deliver the material with great comic effect. The full
recording is due April 20, and to celebrate the release, Wopat and Peters will
have an in-store record signing to be announced shortly. If this sampler is
any indication, it should be a wonderful, must-have recording.
And more about Peters . . . In his Hollywood Reporter column, Robert Osborne
had this to say about her AGYG performance: ". . .it's a show I would highly
recommend mainly for one glorious reason: Bernadette Peters. A Merman she
ain't but a Peters she is, which makes the show a constant pleasure/treasure
to behold and more than worth the price of a ducat. Peters is absolutely
adorable as Irving Berlin's musicalized Annie Oakley, neatly fitting the role
to her own persona and having a star turn the likes of which we haven't seen
on a Broadway stage since Chita Rivera in Kiss of the Spider Woman and Betty
Buckley in Sunset Boulevard." . . . There was also a wonderful interview with
BP in this week's edition of In Theater Magazine. I thought you would enjoy
reading some of Peters' quotes from the article by Marc Miller:
about updating Annie Get Your Gun and dropping "I'm an Indian, Too":
"I think that, unless they rewrote the lyrics, it would be a hard song to do
now. And I don't think that you should sing things that are insulting to
people. The writing in the book -- you mean the updating? Well, don't forget,
we're here to entertain. And if you're sitting there and they leave it like it
was, people will look on it like a museum piece. In a museum, you can look at
a statue as long as you wish and then move on. But when you're locked in a
theater for two and a half hours and pay money, you should be entertained."
about keeping herself in shape:
". . .Well, exercise is really important. In my ball gown, before I go out, I
have a little time, and I do push-ups. I started in Washington, and just in
that little bit, you can see the difference. It's a pretty strenuous role
anyway, but there's a difference between just doing a role and really working
on toning different areas. And I eat mostly protein and vegetables, a little
bit of carbs."
about some of the people she has enjoyed working with:
"Jackie Gleason; we did a Bing Crosby Christmas special together. Mel Brooks.
George Burns: I did one of his Gracie things, and it worked. It got in the
groove; you could see him settle back and think, 'Okay, kid, take it.' That
was very satisfying. I also danced with Baryshnikov, if you can believe it,
for a TV special. I have my nerve! The makeup person told me, 'Be careful!
He's tired, he's been dropping girls.' [Laughs] He didn't drop me, though."
~Mollie
| | Author | Message: Re: The Veiw, Regis and Bernadette!!!!!! | Posted by: WitchBern
On: 3/19/1999 at 5:09:22 PM GMT
Message #: 988
See headers | That is exciting!!! I can't wait!
Noelle
| | Author | Message: Re: The Veiw, Regis and Bernadette!!!!!! | Posted by: KELBEL519
On: 3/19/1999 at 6:18:20 PM GMT
Message #: 989
See headers | She's so cute
-Kelli
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