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Karen
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5/3/2002 | posted: 3/26/2006 at 11:23:56 PM ET
This is really one of those unanswerable questions, but I was just wondering why Bernadette has never done anything from Follies other than "Broadway Baby."
I mean it's Sondheim, it's a musical masterpiece, and there are any number of songs she could sing, most notably "Losing My Mind" and "In Buddy's Eyes," but others as well, yet as far as I know she never has. It just suddenly struck me as kind of curious.
Any thoughts on the matter?
|  Sister Rose
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Good question Karen. I'd like to hear her sing any of the Phyllis'songs - they are so rich and telling - she would be so brilliant on "Could I Leave You?" and "The Story of Lucy and Jessie".
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|  Jean
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6/7/2003 | posted: 3/27/2006 at 5:50:21 AM ET
This really is unanswerable, but something I've also wondered, not with those particular songs but others. But I must say that the several times that I saw Follies (different productions) it was very easy for me to see Bernadette playing either Phyllis or Sally.
In her own words, from the Q&A on the old Gypsy forum:
"1)Q:what is it about a song, that when you hear it, you think, I must sing this song?
A:Hi Dennis:
I can tell right away if a song is right for me. If it moves me inside, then I know it's a song I should sing."
And one more, from a Naples, Florida paper interview in 2001:
"I really try to pick songs that I connect to," Bernadette Peters says.
"Some of the songs I sing I like hearing the message myself, it reminds me of things that I need to hear. Like 'No One Is Alone' (from 'Into the Woods'). It's soothing to hear it. And sometimes, I haven't sung them in a while, and they're like old friends that I just like, like Stephen Sondheim's songs.
"I have to connect to the songs. I like to listen to the words and hear the thoughts that the author intended and connect to them. It's a thought that maybe you hadn't considered before, or an emotion. I use someone else's words, thoughts or feelings to convey to an audience what we all need to be reminded of. Not lessons, just lovely thoughts. Some of them are feelings, emotions, love. It's all that stuff."
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