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Bwaybaby
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3/10/2001 | posted: 12/29/2002 at 3:39:26 PM ET
The Sound of Music is going to be on ABC tonight @ 7pm. 
|  MsPetersFan1
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Long Island, New York & Boston, | posted: 12/29/2002 at 7:16:57 PM ET
Thanks for the info, I'm watching it now.
~* Megan *~
| Bwaybaby
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3/10/2001 | posted: 12/29/2002 at 8:33:04 PM ET
So, I'm watching The Sound of Music( which I haven't seen since I was little) and the scene where they sing Do Re Mi just ended and it got me thinking....
Bernadette & the Bway kids did a really great version of this at her Radio City concert! I definitely think they had better voices then the kids in the movie. For some reason I could see Bernadette as Maria( Julie Andrews character). Ok, I'm done rambling now...
PS- the Music Man starring Matthew Broderic and Kristen Chenoweth will be on ABC in February.
|  moljul
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| posted: 12/29/2002 at 11:14:37 PM ET
Bernadette played Liesl (sp?) in a summer stock production of The Sound of Music. Though I prefer the movie over the play. Just thought I would do the complete tie-in.
| Bwaybaby
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3/10/2001 | posted: 12/29/2002 at 11:32:43 PM ET
Yes, she did. And she has some great stories about her experiences with that show. One in parpticular I found to be very amusing. They performed this in an outdoor type of theatre and she said that bats would be hanging from the rafters and that every night when their Mother Abbess would sing Climb Ev'ry Mountain that the bats would swoop down within inches of their heads and how they couldnt planned that better LOL to have these bats swoppping down while this beautiful/uplifting ballad was being sung must have been a sight. LOL
| Anonymous
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Here is an excerpted article from the Lebanon [Pennsylvania]Daily News about her time in Mt. Gretna:
"Bernadette Peters remembers her days in Mt. Gretna
By Henry Homan
Talk about coincidences!
Two very good friends of mine, George and Lorraine Patton of Lebanon, recently spent some time in Dallas, Texas, visiting several former Lebanon County residents.
The Pattons were able to get tickets to a recent Dallas Symphony Orchestra
concert that featured Tony Award-winning songstress Bernadette Peters.
Bernadette sang songs from her latest CD, "Bernadette Peters Loves Rodgers &
Hammerstein."
She told the Texas audience that so far she has not appeared in a major
production featuring the music of Richard Rodgers, however, when she was 17
years of age, she played the role of Liesl, in "The Sound of Music" at a small
summer stock company in Mount Gretna, Pa. She also added that when the Mother Superior in that production came forward to sing "Climb Ev'ry Mountain," a bat flew in front of her, causing a momentary stir.
The Pattons went backstage to tell the star soloist that they know Mt. Gretna well. The couple also know that I worked very closely with Bernadette when she was at Gretna, where, by the way, she also starred in another musical, "Riverwind." That was the summer of 1965.
George Patton told the backstage doorman his name and also asked him to tell
Bernadette that they are good friends of Henry Homan.
She soon emerged from her dressing room and chatted briefly with George and
Lorraine, and she also told George to give me her regards. George said that
their conversation had to be short since she was heading to the airport for the
flight back to New York [should be Florida].
When at Gretna back in the 1960s, Bernadette lived at "The Inn," operated by
Mrs. Anthony. Her mother would visit Gretna and cook wonderful Italian meals for those on the Playhouse staff. I was the theater's publicity director then.
I was driving a 1965 light blue Oldsmobile convertible I had purchased from
George Wise on Lincoln Avenue.
I'd bring Bernadette into Lebanon from Gretna so she could do her laundry at the Lamppost Laundromat. Then I'd drive her back to The Inn.
One night I picked up a Chicago radio station on the car radio, and the deejay
announced that he was going to play a new record that had just come in, entitled
"Wait Johnny For Me," and sung by Bernadette. That was a thrilling evening for
her and me. "
Henry Homan's column appears each Monday in the Lebanon Daily News.
| Karen
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5/3/2002 | posted: 12/30/2002 at 10:46:39 AM ET
Wow, what a great story, filled with information I've never heard before. Great stuff ! Thanks for posting that.
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