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idrewnit
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7/3/2003 | posted: 7/3/2003 at 12:38:09 PM ET
You see I have this friend..., whom would very much like to meet Bernadette peters in person. She is not some type of phycotic worshiping fan She is more to the effect of a motivated individual who is an aspiring actress. She has taken part in many plays and has pulled her weight in all of them. Bernadette Peters is her role model you could say, She has modeled her career in the same manner. Of course the likely hood of her personally meeting Ms.Peters is slim to none, especially in this day in age were celebrities are protected by unlisted phone numbers body guards and pseudo identitys! A solution may be for someone with connections to contact Clair via 2nd party phone and transfer the call to Ms.Peters. I understand she is most likely a busy person who values her personal private time , but I made a promise. I am willing to Pay a chunk of $ for this once in a lifetime opportunity ..
Please if anyone can help out my dear friend Clair S. then email me @ Qsell@execs.com
also I may suggest that in no way should anyone go to illegal means to obtain Bernadette's phone number, this is clearly wrong and an invasion of privacy.
I will settle for her email or the email of someone who knows her!
 have fun
"I aspire to be what I am not"
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Andrew L. Neale
|  Christine-NYC
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| posted: 7/3/2003 at 12:49:51 PM ET
I'm sure your friend is a very nice person, but nobody here knows her (or you for that matter). And certainly nobody connected to Bernadette knows her. That was a little nervy to ask any of us to give a complete stranger contact information.
There are ways of contacting her without asking us to intrude on her privacy. I really don't think it would be appropriate for anyone here to give you that information. Sorry.
But you should tell your friend to come post here (and you should continue to as well). It's nice to hear from people who are really big fans. 
<3CMH<3
|  Krasm
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Brooklyn | posted: 7/3/2003 at 1:36:46 PM ET
I think it was very nice of you to try to do your friend a favor. I would recommend that if she would like to meet Bernadette that you take her to Shubert Alley in NYC between 11pm and 12am and wait with all of the other fans after the GYPSY performance.
Your friend can get an autograph and share her admiration.
Good luck
"To each his Dulcinea
That he alone can name..."
|  Bernadollie85
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7/23/2002 | posted: 7/3/2003 at 1:49:13 PM ET
LOL!
There are a lot of people who share the same dream as your friend....
......
I'm just a Broadway Baby learnin how to sing and dance....**Hollie**
| jmslsu01
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northern VA | posted: 7/3/2003 at 1:58:34 PM ET
My goodness,you have a lot of nerve.
I'm going to be blunt,and I don't care. Asking for someone's personal information-email,phone number,work information,etc-without personal contact or permission is very unethical. It doesn't matter who it is-famous or not.
You especially don't do this over the Internet.
Living in an area recently terrorized by a serial killer,I am particularly sensitive and wary of anyone requesting personal information of someone without having some sort of relationship or meaningful contact with that person.
Yes,yes,you're not a serial killer. But you just don't ask these sort of things of someone. When one of the murders hit too close to home,I really stopped caring if someone got offended when I objected to him/her asking for personal information of me or of someone else. No matter if it's an ordinarily nice person.
Jenn
|  moljul
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Fav. BP CD: I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
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| posted: 7/3/2003 at 2:05:53 PM ET
Calm down folks. If you read carefully Idrewnit didn't ask for any personal information. They are asking if there is a way to get in touch with Bernadette. Well they did ask if someone knew her e-mail but many celebrities have a public e-mail address. Bernadette does not.
Now I agree this board probably isn't a good source of information on getting in touch with her (other than the mentioned Shubert Alley) and just the thought of the request is a long shot but let's not crucify this person who has just come here to ask help.
So Idrewnit, you will find it very difficult if not near impossible to have any private audience with Bernadette due to her schedule and well just her life. I'm sure she gets requests like this all the time and certainly can't fill one if she isn't able to fill a bunch if not all so I'm assuming she doesn't do this sort of thing at all. About your only shot is if you personally know someone who personally knows her. If you can make it to New York, meeting her at the stage door is a good idea. Maybe even drop off a note before the show explaining (briefly) your friends admiration for her. Then when she comes out after the show, you can say hello, Bernadette will know the history of the situation and your friend can probably ask a quick question.
|  UCFGuardgirl
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New York City | posted: 7/3/2003 at 3:27:15 PM ET
Agreed with all that was said by these lovely people here.
First, I want to say that it is commendable and honorable for a person to go to such lengths for a friend. (While it might not be wise, nor is it polite nettiquette, it DOES take guts to come onto a message board and register just to ask if someone can find a way to get in contact with -- not YOUR idol -- but your friends' idol. Especially knowing you'll likely take flak for it.) Anyway. So, like I said -- gutsy, admirable (you must be a very good friend,) although rather badly carried out.
What I would suggest is that your best bet might be the "indirect approach" if you really want your friend to meet Ms. Peters. (And I think this has been mentioned already. But I'll keep going. LOL)
For example: I'm moving up to NY in August. My friends were very distressed that I was leaving, but very happy for me. As a going away present, they are taking me on a cruise to the Bahamas. It's going to cost them some money, but they decided to do it all on their own, and they researched it carefully, and know we'll all have a good time.
But what does this have to do with you? Well, my suggestion is this: If you care about this friend as much as I think you must, perhaps instead consider saving up some money and springing for a trip for both of you to NY. (Or, if you're already in the area, just to the theatre.) Go see Gypsy (and this way, your friend gets to see Bernadette perform, which -- if you're an actress --- is probably much more educational than having a brief conversation with her.) Maybe drop off a note before the show (like was mentioned here) saying "good luck" and mentioning you're there. I don't know if it'll help, but it certainly can't hurt. And then, after the show, wait by the stage door and your friend can ask her question then.
Besides the educational experience gained by your friend from seeing Bernadette performing on stage, you also get to meet her in person. Plus, you get a small vacation with your friend, and she'll know how much she means to you. I mean, it might take some doing (a little more doing than trying to find someone who knows Bernadette through a message board) but in the end, all things worked hard for are worth it.
Also, if your friend wants some acting tips from Bernadette, I believe you can download Bernadette's interview from 'Inside the Actors' Studio,' in which she talks about technique, style, her history (and she sings a bit, too.) I'm not entirely sure if you CAN download this, but I think you can also find a website where you can order the tapes. (Someone sent it to me on a CD-R, so I figured maybe it was downloadable off the net.) At any rate, it can't hurt to look. Any good friend is worth a little time and research, don't you think?
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|  Jean
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6/7/2003 | posted: 7/3/2003 at 6:01:37 PM ET
Good heavens, let's use some real world sense: contact her agent or press rep. If you don't know who either is, try a little research and go to her official web site (bernadettepeters.com).
(I of course agree with everything everyone has already posted on this obviously "lets throw it out there and see what comes back" request. I am being kind because I sense no harm or evil intended and I am hearing a youthful hopefulness and naivetee.)
| Bwaybaby
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3/10/2001 | posted: 7/3/2003 at 7:31:53 PM ET
Hmmm... I dunno...I think that idrewnit definitely had the interest of his friends dream at heart and not one of invading Bernadette's privacy. However, no matter how you look at it, its just not right to ask for someone's personal phone number or email address on a public forum. If Bernadette had wanted this information to be public knowledge then it would be. Asking for someone's personal email address is just like asking for someone's personal and private phone number-- its just that, PRIVATE. Anyone who would have and could have done this for you and given you the info would not be in it for the money so I really do not even know why you offered money. If they were in it for the money. or even accepted the money, then I think their intentions would be a little shady.
I do know that she gets a LOT of requests like this from her fans and contacting her publicist or agent really is not going to help you because I highly doubt that they would set something like that up. Like someone else said, I truly believe one of the main reasons why Bernadette does not do things like that is because, she probably feels that if she did this for one person then she would have to do it for every person who asked. And that's just not possible.
This part of your post really confused me: "Of course the likely hood of her personally meeting MS.Peters is slim to none, especially in this day in age were celebrities are protected by unlisted phone numbers body guards and pseudo identities! "
Bernadette is outside of the stage door every night greeting fans so it is not impossible to meet her. Its just a matter of that individual finding a way to get there...its not Bernadette who is stopping them from that. And I really hope you weren't questioning why celebrities have their phone numbers blocked... ever hear of stalkers?
I remember Kelly Clarkson( from American Idol) mentioning on an interview for people to please stop calling this lovely elderly woman from her hometown in Texas. She said that because this lady and Kelly's Mom had the same name, people were assuming that this lady was Kelly's Mom and that the woman was getting HUNDREDS of phone calls a day from people asking about Kelly and if they could talk with her. What they didn't know that Kelly's Mom got remarried so she actually has a different last name then Kelly.
Bernadette has never tried to hide from her fans. She just wants her privacy which is VERY important to her so I think we should all respect that.
Oh, and I almost forgot, Bernadette DOES have a public email address where you can write to her. It is on her official website.
| moljul
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| posted: 7/3/2003 at 10:36:04 PM ET
Are you blind or just reading comprehension challenged? She was not asking for her personal phone number. Let's give this person a break.
| Bwaybaby
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3/10/2001 | posted: 7/3/2003 at 10:44:39 PM ET
Well, if your comments were directed towards me...let me just clarify that I didn't make any rude or uncalled for comments in my post to this person. You should try the same. Like I said in my previous post, an email address is JUST AS private as a phone number!
Name calling doesn't get people anywhere. And if those comments were directed towards me....No, I am not blind and no, I am not reading comprehension challenged.
| B-Fan503
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1/5/2003 | posted: 7/3/2003 at 11:15:54 PM ET
moljul-
That was very rude and COMPLETELY un-called for. I enjoy reading this board very much and I hate to say this but it seems like you have some personal vendetta against BwayBaby. She has been kind and helpful in many circumstances and you seem to take every opportunity to jump down her throat whenever she states an opinion.
Thank you,
Amanda
| Krasm
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Brooklyn | posted: 7/4/2003 at 12:16:52 PM ET
Moljul,
I think your post was extremely inappropriate and that you should apologize to everyone immediately.
This is a discussion board and we were all discussing but you have chosen to attack.
Keith
"To each his Dulcinea
That he alone can name..."
| Rachel
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7/13/2002 | posted: 7/4/2003 at 1:29:41 PM ET
Well, I'm gonna support Moljul on this one. I think BdwyBaby is one of the most annoying posters I have ever seen everywhere. She feels like she's so high and mighty because she knows Bernadette somehow in passing, and thinks that it's her duty to defend B's privacy and whatever else. Lighten up, BdwyBaby. You come across as really pathetic. And everyone else, stop jumping down Moljul's throat.
| Krasm
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Brooklyn | posted: 7/4/2003 at 1:46:28 PM ET
Excuse me Rachel but there is a correct way to post and an incorrect way to post.
I am tired of people jumping down Bwaybaby's throat for defending anyone privacy.
Moljul was clearly verbally attacking individuals as are you which is unacceptable in my book.
You need to keep your personal opinions about the character of others to yourself and only comment on the discussion.
Keith
"To each his Dulcinea
That he alone can name..."
|  Kevin
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| posted: 7/4/2003 at 1:47:27 PM ET
Well, I'm going to go ahead and lock this up before it gets uglier.
-Kevin
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