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 Colleen
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Michigan | posted: 11/2/2006 at 12:01:05 AM ET
Hello all,
What would be your ideal role for Ms. Peters to portray? Anything goes...it can be an existing character or you can create your own character/plot outline.
I read somewhere that she wanted to play Amanda in The Glass Menagerie and that would be fabulous.
Also, please forgive me if this has already been discussed. You all have SO MANY wonderful discussions and it's hard to go through all of them
| Scottie
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Edinburgh, Scotland | posted: 11/2/2006 at 7:34:28 AM ET
Still going along the Tenessee Williams route, I think Bernadette would be a very interesting casting choice for the role of Blanche Du Bois in A Streetcar Named Desire.
I've only ever seen this play once in a theatre production and that was in London with the exquisite Claire Bloom. This is a such a great role and can be totally heart-wrenching in the right hands. I am being quite truthful when I say that I can't bear to view the film with Vivien Leigh as Blanche simply because I feel like an emotional wreck afterwards - such is the strength, honesty and dignity of her performance. I believe Bernadette shares those qualities as an actor and think she would be utterly devasting as Blanche.
as Bernadette says....just keep moving on.....
|  Jean
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6/7/2003 | posted: 11/2/2006 at 7:40:37 AM ET
The Glass Menagerie is my favorite Williams play, I've seen several different productions of it but still haven't seen the definitive one.
Maybe, just maybe, Bernadette would be "it" for me. But, I fear that she will return to Broadway in yet another musical revival (with the odious comparisons to everyone and anyone who ever played the role). Rant over, leaving now, hope I didn't high-jack your thread, it's an interesting one.
|  Sister Rose
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NYC | posted: 11/2/2006 at 8:10:58 AM ET
Two revivials: Desire in "A Little Night Music" and Auntie Mame in "Mame"
http://sarahbsadventures.blogspot.com/
| Jean
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6/7/2003 | posted: 11/2/2006 at 8:25:39 AM ET
This is what we chatted about before on this subject:
what should she do next?
I'm not trying to stop conversation but rather refreshing our memories.
What I said then:
"I'd like to see Bernadette in another big, all-out musical where she can use her humor, warmth, and understanding of the lyrics to good effect--this Dolly might just be it. Although, as I've said (too many times) I'd love to see her in a non-musical, small, intense comedy-drama in a small off-Broadway theater.
I saw a production of Prime of Miss Jean Brodie this past Spring--I'm thinking,hmm..could work."
What I say now:
ANYTHING ON STAGE..whatever she wants to do, for however long...she's the artist and tour guide, I'll go along for the journey...
| Sister Rose
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NYC | posted: 11/2/2006 at 9:20:29 AM ET
So much for Miss Jean Brodie since Cynthia Nixon is off and running in it and perfectly so, I understand.
http://sarahbsadventures.blogspot.com/
| Karen
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I'm with Jean. I want her on stage in something great and unexpected. Anything. No preconceptions. Something that will surprise, astonish, and delight.
| Sister Rose
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NYC | posted: 11/2/2006 at 11:05:44 AM ET
See, both Desire and Mame would both be interesting because nobody has been able to revive them on Broadway (well Angela revived herself in Mame in the 80s, but even she wasn't successful). Bernadette was able to bring completely new and thrilling components to Annie Get Your Gun and Gypsy so I know she'd be exciting as Mame. I LOVED Christine Baranski in Mame at the Kennedy Center - I can only imagine how thrilling Bernadette would be as Mame.
I wish I was a producer.
http://sarahbsadventures.blogspot.com/
|  leebee
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| posted: 11/2/2006 at 12:17:28 PM ET
I gotta go with "A Little Night Music" too. It's music and a character that I really like, but honestly I don't think I can imagine exactly how Bernadette would play it. And that's part of its allure; BP would really suprise us and show us some nuance of Desire that we could have never realized before.
| Sister Rose
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NYC | posted: 11/2/2006 at 12:32:01 PM ET
Right - and there is less singing for Desire than other characters - not that I want less singing from Bernadette, but it's acting part is meaty so we'd have both. Plus Mr. Sondheim said this summer that it's a real possibility that ALNM will be revived soon. We already know how he feels about Bernadette.
http://sarahbsadventures.blogspot.com/
| Colleen
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Michigan | posted: 11/5/2006 at 12:48:57 AM ET
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ANYTHING ON STAGE..whatever she wants to do, for however long...she's the artist and tour guide, I'll go along for the journey...
Very nicely put
If she were to be in a film, I would just love to see her in something really intense and meaty...maybe an alcoholic or something dramatic like that. That might sound strange, but I just want to see her in something very challenging and intense and perhaps unexpected.
I also love watching women play mothers and I would love to see her in some type of mother role. I don't know why exactly but I think I'm always drawn to maternal relationships in films over all others...there is something very warm and intriguing about those connections.
But, in the end, anything she wants to do is fine with me...as long as it's something.
| Karen
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5/3/2002 | posted: 11/5/2006 at 1:16:33 AM ET
Colleen, the film roles you're describing are very interesting to me because for years I wanted Bernadette to play Geneva "Jean" Ellroy in a film version of James Ellroy's memoir, My Dark Places. The character, Ellroy's mother, was an alcoholic who was murdered in 1958 when her son was 10. The crime was never solved. I'm a great admirer of the book (for a long time I was almost obsessed with it). At this point I don't think the film will ever be made, and certainly not with Bernadette, but the character fits in almost exactly with the qualities that you're describing.
| Colleen
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Michigan | posted: 11/5/2006 at 1:35:01 AM ET
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Colleen, the film roles you're describing are very interesting to me because for years I wanted Bernadette to play Geneva "Jean" Ellroy in a film version of James Ellroy's memoir, My Dark Places. The character, Ellroy's mother, was an alcoholic who was murdered in 1958 when her son was 10. The crime was never solved. I'm a great admirer of the book (for a long time I was almost obsessed with it). At this point I don't think the film will ever be made, and certainly not with Bernadette, but the character fits in almost exactly with the qualities that you're describing.
Wow, you're right. And that would be an intruiguing role. I would just really like to see her cast in a part that is somewhat "against-type". Of course, we all know that she can play anything, but I feel like her image to the general population is of a musical comedy star who is always cute or sexy (which is a fine image to have, but I do think it is somewhat limiting to her obvious range and versatility).
| Jean
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6/7/2003 | posted: 11/5/2006 at 10:27:10 AM ET
Yes, Colleen, I also like the idea of a meaty and intense role, although not an alcoholic ( I know you were just using that as an example). That is probably why I like some of her movies, even though they may not have been that well-received--like Fall from Grace, Impromptu, Last Best Year, and David, etc etc. She has those intense and emotional characters and scenes, and I like them very much.
I guess also, somewhere in the back of my mind is that "other" Bernadette, the very sexy, very off-beat funny , wonderful song-stylist. That makes these other roles even more interesting.
Enough for now, off for a walk.
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