Who is bernadette peters' husband
by Robert Sokol
The storm didn't bother her though.
"I like rain. I find it peaceful. When I was in high school, I didn't like it because I have naturally curly hair and those were the days of straight hair! I'd think 'Oh no! My secret is out!' Ha!"
It's been no secret that she has been busy, busy, busy. The last year has found this titian-tressed temptress keeping her curls intact while getting married for the first time, making her Carnegie Hall debut, releasing not one but two new albums after a fifteen year studio hiatus, sirening through a historical TV drama for NBC's May sweeps, getting nominated for a Grammy and jetting back and forth across the country on a concert tour that has crowds begging for more.
All the while, the on-line world is burning up bandwidth debating what this Broadway Baby's next move will be on the Great White Way.
Happy belated birthday!
Well, thank you!
You and I are February bookends. I'm the first and you're the twenty-eighth.
My mother was the first!
Really?
Do you know who you share a birthday with?
Who?
Charles Durning.
That's right.
Vincent Minnelli.
Oh my God!
Zero Mostel.
Yes, that I remember.
Tommy Tune.
Tommy Tune, I knew that.
And, your old co-star, Tom Aldredge.
That's right. I knew that.
How's married life treating you?
I love it. It's so nice to have a support system like that. I'm so lucky, because he [Michael Wittenberg] is an investment advisor so he can take his computer and come with me on the concert weekends.
Have you ever gone out on the Internet?
No, I haven't.
Well come to the Stephen Sondheim Stage because the people are talking about you!
They are?
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Want to know what they're saying?
Yeah (Giggle)
The rumor is Annie Get Your Gun is your next Broadway show. What say you?
Oh, um. It's nothing to talk about yet.
So you really are going to hold out and give the scoop to Rosie?
Ha-ha! It's nothing to talk about yet.
Okay. Next rumor. That you're not going to be doing 'Animaniacs' anymore.
I don't know. I did one a couple of months ago.
Are you the person who's responsible for slipping all the Sondheim references in the show?
No. (Laughs) The writers are very clever that way.
How's the tour going?
Wonderfully.
I was just in Chicago and it was just really exciting. It was like Carnegie Hall.
Bernadette peters stephen sondheim biography wikipedia Ally McBeal Cassandra Lewis. Peters has recorded six solo albums and several singles. Have you spent a lot of time in the Berkshires, and do you have any favorite spots or memories? It's pretty much set and being brought over.The audience was very excited. So that was lovely.
Do people call you "Bernie"?
(Pause) Just a few.
So you don't like it?
No, I don't.
Like Elizabeth Taylor hates being called "Liz".
Oh, she does? She likes "Elizabeth"? Well it is a beautiful name.
So, let's talk some Sondheim.
Okay.
You are being called the premiere interpreter of the music of Stephen Sondheim. How does that feel?
Gosh, really? Well, that's an awfully nice compliment. I don't know whether it's true or not. (Laughs) I mean, it's a beautiful compliment. Where do you think that came from?
I think it comes from the fact that you do such a phenomenal job with his songs.
Well, I do love his music. I love singing his songs and getting involved in his words.
A lot of people feel the same but they fail miserably. Why do you think you're being so successful with them?
Gosh, I don't know. They just ring very true to me.
His songs make so much sense. They have such depth. There are layers and layers and layers to his songs. You sing a song and the next time you sing it it can mean something else totally. It's like this beautiful Maui onion that you keep peeling and there's all these layers and layers and layers and layers.
Betty Buckley, whom you replaced before Into the Woods opened, told a story recently saying she had sent Sondheim the CDs of his songs that she had recorded and he said that he didn't like them because she didn't sing the notes the way he wrote them.
Oh yes, I understand that.
He writes the music and the lyrics very specifically, saying what he wants to say by making it a quarter note or a half note. He leaves room for passion (Laughs) but only in certain places. When he's writing a show and you're performing his show he wants it done a certain way.
Stephen sondheim biography wikipedia La Strada. Bernadette Peters in the Broadway revival of Hello, Dolly! She has received many honorary awards, including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Bernadette Peters has appeared on London's West End in 1 shows.I understand that because he's writing that way for a reason. And if you ask him, it's a very good reason. It makes perfectly good sense. But he does like his lyrics correct and his notes correct.
People say that he's hard to perform and to understand. How do you respond to that?
He can be very hard to learn. It depends upon the song.
It's always the unexpected. He'll choose a note, and you'll go back and think, 'Oh, that's the note!' He always writes a little bit just not quite what you think it's going to be.
When we did the ten year reunion of Sunday in the Park With George I really had to learn it again. I thought, you just can't bop through this.
It's not easy. You really have to learn it.
We're going to do a ten year reunion of Into the Woods. We'll see what that's like.
Bernadette peters stephen sondheim biography There are also a couple of Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil rock tunes in which she sounds slightly trashy and out of her depth. Sally and Marsha. My mother made sure we had money for me to take lessons, but we didn't have money to go to the theater. Not totally.Although that was an easier score for me to learn. Except there is the rap song. (Laughs) So we'll see. I know I have to re-learn that!
What would you say is the most difficult Sondheim song you've performed?
Gosh, I don't know. All I can say is that as I'm learning them I never want to think they're difficult because then you can't do them.
(Laughs)
Do you remember one that came particularly easily to you?
Yes.