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 Colleen
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Michigan | posted: 3/15/2007 at 3:57:00 PM ET
Bernadette's performance of this song from "Hey Mr. Producer" is up on YouTube now. I've never seen this, so I thoroughly enjoyed it.
"If you want to bump it, bump it with a trumpet." Too funny!
Gimmick
|  Rose
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| posted: 3/15/2007 at 4:00:06 PM ET
Oh I love that performance! It's so funny.
"Oh no, you won't. No, not a chance. No arguements, shut up and dance." -You'll Never Get Away From Me
"And if it wasn't for me then where would you be Miss Gypsy Rose Lee?" -Rose's Turn
|  moljul
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| posted: 3/15/2007 at 4:07:43 PM ET
Judi Dench's ending KICK could not be more perfect. God, I love that woman! 
"Particular mention must be made of Bernadette Peters, who turns up briefly in a sort of sparkly Glinda the Good costume. She's the reluctant muse sent to help Alice with her writing. The muse is dressed like Oz, sounds like Queens and behaves like a bored student adviser." Alice Film Review, The New York Times, December 25, 1990
"I'm one star away from Dolly Parton ... and Raymond Massey is between us. I hope we don't suffocate him." Bernadette Peters receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, April 24, 1987
| Scottie
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And what about the brilliant Julia McKenzie and Ruthie Henshall? They are just two of the great West End performers featured in this London concert. That reminds me, Bernadette's West End debut is WAY overdue!
Colleen, you have to get this DVD and see Bernadette perform "Being Alive" and "Unexpected Song" ... not to mention a rather unusual and fun "Broadway Baby".
as Bernadette says....just keep moving on.....
| Colleen
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Michigan | posted: 3/15/2007 at 4:40:07 PM ET
quote:
Colleen, you have to get this DVD and see Bernadette perform "Being Alive" and "Unexpected Song" ... not to mention a rather unusual and fun "Broadway Baby".
as Bernadette says....just keep moving on.....
Yes, I really want to...I'm working on it
| Scottie
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moljul, your "Alice" quote is really interesting. It has always baffled me why Woody Allen has never really used Bernadette in any of his NY films. She was great in "Alice" but the part was so tiny. I think she would be amazing in a more substantial role in one of his films. She was born for it.
as Bernadette says....just keep moving on.....
| moljul
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| posted: 3/15/2007 at 5:26:32 PM ET
I agree but oh did she make a lot of The Muse. In the NY Times review they list off all the famous actors who made cameos but Bernadette was the only one who got special mention. That anyone who is known for being so sweet can so perfectly delivery a line like "Yeah, very deep is exactly where is wants to put it", is priceless.  
I do LOVE the "bored student adviser" line.
"Particular mention must be made of Bernadette Peters, who turns up briefly in a sort of sparkly Glinda the Good costume. She's the reluctant muse sent to help Alice with her writing. The muse is dressed like Oz, sounds like Queens and behaves like a bored student adviser." Alice Film Review, The New York Times, December 25, 1990
"I'm one star away from Dolly Parton ... and Raymond Massey is between us. I hope we don't suffocate him." Bernadette Peters receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, April 24, 1987
| Scottie
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Ha! yes, great line ... but the thing that makes me laugh most when I watch Bernadette as The Muse in Alice is when she picks her glasses out of her heavenly robe .... I swear they are Woody Allen's very own trademark spectacles!
as Bernadette says....just keep moving on.....
| moljul
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| posted: 3/15/2007 at 5:53:08 PM ET
Ah yes, Scottie, I should have mentioned that as well. Any time your muse needs reading glasses and pulls them out of her dress bodice, you know you are in a Woody Allen film. I have to say I also love they way she sits on the chaise lounge. One leg up, one leg down, very un-ladylike and just so perfect for the character.
"Particular mention must be made of Bernadette Peters, who turns up briefly in a sort of sparkly Glinda the Good costume. She's the reluctant muse sent to help Alice with her writing. The muse is dressed like Oz, sounds like Queens and behaves like a bored student adviser." Alice Film Review, The New York Times, December 25, 1990
"I'm one star away from Dolly Parton ... and Raymond Massey is between us. I hope we don't suffocate him." Bernadette Peters receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, April 24, 1987
|  SingOutAnnie
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Bradenton/Sarasota, FLA | posted: 3/17/2007 at 12:40:14 PM ET
Oh, that was lovely and fun. First, I'd seen it.
Damn, why didn't they take BP's 'Gypsy' to London?
If wishes were fishes....
| BroadwayBabyGal
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She's great, but I still think Bliss is the ultimate Mazeppa! 
Jessica
|  Colrodia
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| posted: 3/19/2007 at 12:03:53 PM ET
I have "Hey Mr. Producer" DVD...^^
I like this part.
You gotta be a original.
Because if you're like someone else,
What do they need you for?
| Scottie
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Edinburgh, Scotland | posted: 3/19/2007 at 4:03:39 PM ET
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Oh, that was lovely and fun. First, I'd seen it.
Damn, why didn't they take BP's 'Gypsy' to London?
If wishes were fishes....
I so agree! The time was just right for a Gypsy revival here and it would have been wonderful if Bernadette's "Rose" had been seen by a wider audience. But even if Gypsy had made it to London it would have been staged at the National Theatre on the South Bank and not in the West End.
It would be great to have Bernadette appear in a West End show. She really should have at least one West End appearance under her belt by now. Not to mention the odd Olivier Award as well.
as Bernadette says....just keep moving on.....
| moljul
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| posted: 3/19/2007 at 4:06:28 PM ET
Scottie,
Why do you say it would have been staged at the National Theatre and not in a West End theater? Just curious.
"Particular mention must be made of Bernadette Peters, who turns up briefly in a sort of sparkly Glinda the Good costume. She's the reluctant muse sent to help Alice with her writing. The muse is dressed like Oz, sounds like Queens and behaves like a bored student adviser." Alice Film Review, The New York Times, December 25, 1990
"I'm one star away from Dolly Parton ... and Raymond Massey is between us. I hope we don't suffocate him." Bernadette Peters receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, April 24, 1987
| Scottie
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Edinburgh, Scotland | posted: 3/19/2007 at 4:33:34 PM ET
That was the big buzz here at the time Mendes was given directorship of the Broadway revival.
The word was Gypsy was going to open here in London at the NT before it opened on Broadway ... with Bernadette on board.
as Bernadette says....just keep moving on.....
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