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Peters, Bernadette [née Lazzara] (b. 1948), actress and singer. The gamine, baby‐voiced performer was born in Ozone Park, New York. She was not quite eleven when she made her first professional appearance in a City Center revival of The Most Happy Fella, then two years later she played in a touring company of Gypsy. Fame came when she portrayed Ruby (read Ruby Keeler) in the Off‐Broadway musical spoof Dames at Sea (1968). Although Peters has appeared in plays, she is best known for musical roles such as vaudevillian Josie Cohan in George M (1968), Italian waif Gelsomina in La Strada (1969), silent film comedienne Mabel Normand in Mack and Mabel (1974), artist's model Dot and her daughter Marie in Sunday in the Park with George (1984), transplanted Brit Emma in Song and Dance (1985), the Witch in Into the Woods (1987), struggling actress Paula in The Goodbye Girl (1993), sharpshooter Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun (1999), and stage mother Rose in Gypsy (2003). Peters is one of the few remaining Broadway musical stars, known for her considerable acting talents and for her Broadway belt that can also be intimate and cozy.

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Bernadette Peters

Similar Artists:

Bette Midler, Helen Reddy, Jane Olivor, Liza Minnelli, Barbara Cook, Shirley Bassey, Patti LuPone, Betty Buckley, Carol Burnett

Influenced By:

Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli

Performed Songs By:

Jim Wise, David Zippel, Richard Maltby, Jr., Don Black, Jerry Herman, Marvin Hamlisch, Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber

Worked With:

Mandy Patinkin
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  • Born: February 28, 1948, Queens, NY
  • Active: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, 2000s
  • Genres: Vocal Music
  • Instrument: Vocals
  • Representative Albums: "Sondheim, Etc.: Live at Carnegie Hall," "Bernadette," "Sondheim, Etc., Etc.: Live at Carnegie Hall -- The Rest of It"

Biography

One of the biggest Broadway stars of her era, Bernadette Peters was widely acclaimed as the finest singing actress to come along since Barbra Streisand. Born Bernadette Lazzara on February 28, 1948, in New York City, she began singing and dancing while a toddler, and was already a member of Actors' Equity by the age of nine. By 1959, having adopted the stage name Peters, she appeared in a revival of The Most Happy Fella, subsequently co-starring in a road tour of Gypsy; however, she then retired from performing for a time, extensively studying acting and singing during her late-teen years.

In 1968, Peters won a Theatre World citation for her performance in George M!; that same year, she also garnered a Drama Desk Award for her comedic turn in the off-Broadway spoof Dames at Sea. During the late '60s and early '70s, however, she suffered a series of theatrical disappointments, among them productions of On the Town, La Strada, W.C., and Mack and Mabel; as a result, by the mid-'70s she was also regularly appearing in film and television roles. Peters' Hollywood breakthrough arrived in 1979 opposite co-star Steve Martin in The Jerk; two years later, they reunited for the fascinating flop Pennies from Heaven.

Returning to Broadway, she reached new peaks of success as the star of a pair of Stephen Sondheim musicals, 1984's Sunday in the Park with George and 1987's Into the Woods; for her work in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Song and Dance, Peters earned a Tony Award. During the late '80s, she mounted a hit cabaret act, which focused largely on show tunes but also included an effective cover of Hank Williams' "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry." After a disappointing return to Hollywood, Peters reappeared on Broadway in 1993, starring in The Goodbye Girl; however, the show closed after less than 200 performances. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
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  • Born: Feb 28, 1948 in Queens, New York City, New York
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '70s-2000s
  • Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
  • Career Highlights: Sunday in the Park with George, Annie, Pennies from Heaven
  • First Major Screen Credit: All in the Family: Gloria Suspects Mike (1975)

Biography

American actress Bernadette Peters was a five-year-old performer on Horn and Hardart's kiddie-talent radio program, and by age 11 was appearing on Broadway in Most Happy Fella. Peters achieved national fame in 1968 with her campy performance as Ruby, the 1930s-style chorus girl protagonist of the off-Broadway musical pastiche Dames at Sea. The role demonstrated only one aspect of her talents, but nonetheless threatened to typecast her as a squeaky-voiced dumb blonde. Bernadette scuttled that stereotype herself as leading lady in the 1969 Joel Grey musical George M. The following year she played Mabel Normand opposite Robert Preston's Mack Sennett in the musical comedy Mack and Mabel, which, though a failure, has become a staple of community theatres. (The amateur Mabels have an ongoing tendency to imitate Bernadette Peters). In 1976, Peters costarred with Richard Crenna on All's Fair, a Norman Lear TV sitcom that showed neither star to best advantage. Reluctant to leave her native New York City, Peters has nonetheless occasionally travelled to Hollywood for an off-and-on movie career. Hilarious as a babaloo-ing cabaret entertainer in Silent Movie (1976), the actress was even better as the long-suffering wife of goony Steve Martin in The Jerk (1977). She was reunited with Martin in Pennies From Heaven (1981), an uneven but fascinating attempt to juxtapose the fanatasies of 1930s popular music with the grim realities of Depression life. Offscreen, her relationship with Martin was intensely romantic for several years. Feeling unfulfilled in Hollywood, Bernadette Peters returned to Broadway in the mid 1980s, reclaiming her Dames at Sea prominence tenfold in such musicals as Sunday in the Park With George, Song and Dance, and Into the Woods, nearly unrecognizable in the latter in her heavy makeup as the wizened witch of "Hansel and Gretel" fame. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Bernadette Peters

At a Broadway Barks book signing
(San Francisco, 2008)
Born Bernadette Lazzara
February 28, 1948 (1948-02-28) (age 61)
Ozone Park, Queens, New York, U.S.
Occupation Actress, Singer
Years active 1958–present
Spouse(s) Michael Wittenberg (1996-2005)
Official website

Bernadette Peters (born February 28, 1948) is an American actress and singer from New York City. Over the course of a career that has already spanned five decades, she has starred in musical theatre, films and television, as well as performing in solo concerts and recordings. She is one of the most critically-acclaimed Broadway performers, having received nominations for seven Tony Awards, winning two, and eight Drama Desk Awards, winning three. Four of the Broadway cast albums on which she has starred have won Grammy Awards.

Peters first performed on the stage as a child and then a teenage actor in the 1960s, and in film and television in the 1970s. She was praised for this early work and for appearances on The Muppet Show, The Carol Burnett Show and in other television work, and for her roles in films like Silent Movie, The Jerk, Pennies from Heaven and Annie. In the 1980s she returned to the theatre, where she became one of the best-known Broadway stars over the next three decades. She also has recorded six solo albums and several singles, as well as many cast albums, and performs regularly in her own solo concert act. Peters also continues to act in films and on television, where she has been nominated for three Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards, winning once.

Peters is particularly noted for her starring roles in stage musicals, including Song and Dance, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Annie Get Your Gun, and Gypsy, becoming closely associated with composer Stephen Sondheim. She had a four-year romantic relationship with comedian Steve Martin and was married to investment adviser Michael Wittenberg for over nine years until he was killed in a helicopter crash on September 26, 2005. Peters is known for her charitable work, including as a founder of the Broadway Barks animal charity.

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Early life and career

Peters was born Bernadette Lazzara to an Italian-American family in Queens, New York, the youngest of three children. Her siblings are casting director Donna DeSeta and Joseph Lazzara.[1] Her father Peter drove a bread delivery truck, and her mother, Marguerite (née Maltese), [2] started her in show business by putting her on the television show Juvenile Jury at the age of three-and-a-half. She appeared on the television shows Name That Tune and several times on The Horn and Hardart Children's Hour at age five.[2]

In January 1958, at age nine, she obtained her Actors Equity Card in the name of Bernadette Peters to avoid ethnic stereotyping, with the stage name taken from her father's first name.[2] She made her professional stage debut the same month in This is Goggle, a comedy directed by Otto Preminger that closed during out-of-town tryouts before reaching New York.[3] She then appeared on NBC television in A Boy Called Ciske, a Kraft Theatre production, on May 28, 1958, and as Anna Stieman in The Christmas Tree, a Hallmark Hall of Fame production, on December 14, 1958.[4] She first appeared on the New York stage at age 10 in the New York City Center revival of The Most Happy Fella (1959).[5] In her teen years, she attended the Quintano's School for Young Professionals, a former private school that several famous people, such as Steven Tyler, attended.[3]

At age 13, Peters appeared as one of the "Hollywood Blondes" and was an understudy for "Dainty June" in the second national tour of Gypsy.[6] During this tour Peters first met her long-time accompanist, conductor and arranger Marvin Laird, who was the assistant conductor for the tour. Laird recalled, "I heard her sing an odd phrase or two and thought, 'God that's a big voice out of that little girl,'"[7] The next summer, she played Dainty June in summer stock, and in 1962 she recorded her first single. In 1964 she played Leisl in The Sound Of Music and Jenny in Riverwind in summer stock at the Mt. Gretna Playhouse (Pennsylvania), and Riverwind again at the Bucks County Playhouse in 1966.[8][9][10] Upon graduation from high school, she started working steadily, appearing Off-Broadway in the musicals The Penny Friend (1966) and Curley McDimple (1967)[5] and as a standby on Broadway in The Girl in the Freudian Slip (1967). She made her Broadway debut in Johnny No-Trump in 1967 and next appeared as George M. Cohan's sister opposite Joel Grey in George M! (1968), winning the Theatre World Award.[2]

It was Peters's performance as "Ruby" in the 1968 Off-Broadway Dames at Sea, a spoof of 1930s musicals, that brought her critical acclaim and her first Drama Desk Award.[5] She had appeared in an earlier 1966 version of Dames at Sea at the Off-Off-Broadway performance club Caffe Cino.[11][12][13] Peters had starring roles in her next Broadway vehicles—Gelsomina in La Strada (1969), Hildy in On the Town (1971), for which she received her first Tony Award nomination, and Mabel Normand in Mack and Mabel (1974), receiving another Tony nomination. Although these had short runs, Peters was singled out for praise by the critics,[2] and the Mack and Mabel cast album became popular among musical theatre fans.[5] She moved to Los Angeles in the early 1970s to concentrate on television and film work.

Film appearances

As "Eileen" in Pennies From Heaven

Peters has appeared in 32 feature films or television movies beginning in 1973, including Mel Brooks' 1976 film Silent Movie (for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award), the musical Annie (1982), Pink Cadillac (1989), in which she co-starred with Clint Eastwood, and Woody Allen's Alice (1990).

She starred opposite Steve Martin in the The Jerk (1979), in a role that he wrote for her, and Pennies From Heaven (1981), for which she won the Golden Globe Award as Best Motion Picture Actress in a Comedy or Musical.[5] They had begun a romantic relationship in 1977 that lasted approximately four years.[14][15] By 1981, her popularity had led to Peters appearing on the cover and in a spread in the December issue of Playboy Magazine, in which she posed in lingerie designed by Bob Mackie.[16]

Peters appeared with three generations of the Kirk Douglas family in the 2003 film It Runs in the Family. In May 2006 she filmed a movie Come le formiche (Wine and Kisses) with F. Murray Abraham in Italy; the DVD was released on June 22, 2007 in Italy.[17]

Theatre

In 1982, Peters returned to the New York stage after an eight year absence in one of her few non-musical stage appearances, the off-Broadway Manhattan Theatre Club production of the comedy-drama Sally and Marsha, for which she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. She then returned to Broadway as Dot/Marie in the Stephen Sondheim–James Lapine musical Sunday in the Park with George (1984), for which she received her third Tony Award nomination, followed by Andrew Lloyd Webber's Song and Dance (1985), gaining her first Tony for Best Lead Actress in a Musical for her performance in the role of Emma. Theater critic Frank Rich wrote in an otherwise negative review of the show that Peters "has no peer in the musical theater right now."[18]

In the PBS broadcast of Sunday in the Park with George

She then created the role of the Witch in Sondheim-Lapine's Into the Woods (1987). Peters is "considered by many to be the premier interpreter of his [Sondheim's] work," according to writer Alex Witchel.[19] Raymond Knapp wrote that Peters "achieved her definitive stardom" in Sunday in the Park With George and Into the Woods.[20] Sondheim has said of Peters, "Like very few others, she sings and acts at the same time," he says. "Most performers act and then sing, act and then sing ... Bernadette is flawless as far as I'm concerned. I can't think of anything negative."[21] Peters continued her association with Sondheim with a 1995 benefit concert of Anyone Can Whistle. Additionally, she appeared in several concerts featuring Sondheim's work, and performed for him at his 1993 Kennedy Center Honors ceremony.[22]

She next starred in the musical adaptation of Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl with music by Marvin Hamlisch (1993). Peters won her second Tony for her performance as Annie Oakley in the 1999 revival of Annie Get Your Gun opposite Tom Wopat. Among many glowing notices for this role, critic Lloyd Rose of the Washington Post commented: "[Peters] banishes all thoughts of Ethel Merman about two bars into her first number, 'Doin' What Comes Natur'lly.' Partly this is because Merman's Annie was a hearty, boisterous gal, while Peters plays an adorable, slightly goofy gamine... For anyone who cares about the American musical theater, the chance to see Peters in this role is reason enough to see the show."[23] Playbill went even further: "Arguably the most talented comedienne in the musical theatre today, Peters manages to extract a laugh from most every line she delivers."[24]

In 2003, Peters took on the role of Mama Rose in the Broadway revival of Gypsy, earning another Tony nomination. Ben Brantley in his New York Times review wrote, "Working against type and expectation under the direction of Sam Mendes, Ms. Peters has created the most complex and compelling portrait of her long career, and she has done this in ways that deviate radically from the Merman blueprint."[25] Arthur Laurents said: "But in 2003 there was a new Rose on Broadway: Bernadette Peters! Brilliant, original, totally unlike any of the others."[26] In February 2006, she participated in a reading of the Sondheim-Weidman musical Bounce.[27] On September 24, 2007, Peters participated in a one-time only charity reading of the play Love Letters with her former Gypsy co-star, John Dossett.[28]

Peters has been nominated for the Tony Award seven times and won twice.[29] She has also been nominated for the Drama Desk Award eight times and won three times (Annie Get Your Gun, Song and Dance, and Dames at Sea).[30][31]

Television appearances

With the Muppets, November 1977

Peters was nominated for Emmy Awards for her guest-starring roles on the Fox situation comedy Ally McBeal (2001), and The Muppet Show (1977).[32] She was also nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award, Outstanding Performer in a Children's Special, for her work in the made-for-television movie Bobbie's Girl. She won the 1987 "CableACE Award" for her role as Dot in the television version of Sunday in the Park With George.[33]

She has appeared in many variety shows with stars such as Sonny and Cher and George Burns. She has both performed and presented on the Academy Awards broadcasts in 1994, 1987, 1983, 1981 and 1976. Peters has been a presenter at the annual Tony Awards ceremony and co-hosted the ceremony with Gregory Hines in June 2002.[34] She also hosted Saturday Night Live in November 1981.[35][36] She made 12 guest appearances on The Carol Burnett Show[37] as well as appearing with Burnett in the made-for-television version of Once Upon a Mattress and the 1982 film Annie. She also performed at the Kennedy Center Honors ceremony for Burnett (2003).[38] Peters appeared often on the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson[39] and on the day-time talk show Live with Regis and Kelly, both as a co-host and a guest.[40] Peters voiced stray cat Rita in the Rita and Runt segments of the animated series Animaniacs. Rita often sang on the show, sometimes in parodies of songs from Broadway musicals.[41] She appeared on Inside the Actor's Studio in November 2000, discussing her career and craft.[42]

Peters has co-starred in a number of television movies, including The Last Best Year (1990) with Mary Tyler Moore, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella (1997) with Brandy (receiving a nomination for the "Golden Satellite Award" for her role), and Prince Charming (2003) with Martin Short. She co-starred in her own television series, All's Fair, with Richard Crenna in 1976–77, for which Peters was nominated for a Golden Globe award as Best TV Actress — Musical/Comedy. In March 2005, she made a pilot for an ABC situation comedy series titled Adopted, co-starring with Christine Baranski, but it was not picked up.[43] Peters appeared in the Lifetime television movie Living Proof which was first broadcast on October 18, 2008. She played the role of Barbara, an art teacher with breast cancer, who is initially reluctant to participate in the study for the cancer drug Herceptin. Andrew Gans of Playbill wrote, "Peters is able to choose from an expansive emotional palette to color the character, and her performance... is moving, humorous and ultimately spirit-raising".[44]

Peters's television work in recent years also includes guest appearances on several television series. She appeared as the sharp-tongued sister of Karen Walker (Megan Mullally) on the penultimate episode of the NBC series Will & Grace, "Whatever Happened to Baby Gin?" (May 2006); as a defense attorney on the NBC series, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (November 2006); as a judge on the ABC series Boston Legal (May 2007); and as an accident victim in Grey's Anatomy (September 2008). Of her role in Grey's Anatomy, TV Guide wrote: "Peters is especially fine as she confronts a life spinning out of control. I'd make her an early contender for a guest-actor Emmy nomination."[45] In January, February and May 2009, she appeared in the ABC series Ugly Betty in five episodes as Jodie Papadakis, a magazine mogul running the YETI (Young Editors Training Initiative) program that Betty and Marc are in.[46][47][48]

Peters's appearance at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival in June 2009 was filmed and broadcast in Australia later that month.[49][50]

Recordings

Peters has recorded six solo albums and several singles.[51] Three of her albums have been nominated for the Grammy Award. Peters's 1980 single "Gee Whiz" reached the top forty on the U.S. pop singles charts.[52] She has recorded most of the Broadway and off-Broadway musicals she has appeared in, and four of these cast albums have won Grammy Awards.[53]

Album cover from Bernadette (painting by Vargas, 1980)

Peters's debut album in 1980 (an LP), entitled Bernadette Peters contained 10 songs, including "If You Were The Only Boy", "Gee Whiz", "Heartquake", "Should've Never Let Him Go", "Chico's Girl", "Pearl's A Singer", "Other Lady", "Only Wounded", "I Never Thought I'd Break and You'll Never Know". The original cover painting by Alberto Vargas was one of his last works, created at the age of 84.[54] According to The New York Daily News, Peters "persuaded him to do one last 'Vargas Girls' portrait.... She just went to his California retreat, asked him to do one more, he looked at her and said, 'You ARE a Vargas girl!'" She kept the original painting.[55] The original title planned for the album was Decades.[56] It was re-released on CD in 1992 as Bernadette with the same cover art (pictured at left), together with some tracks from her 1981 album, Now Playing. Rolling Stone wrote of her debut album,

“ Peters debuts on record as a first-rate pop torch singer: Melissa Manchester with soul, Bette Midler on pitch. Her album has already spawned the hit single "Gee Whiz," a laid-back, doo-wop version... that makes Peters' piping, little-girl voice seem almost like a cutesy novelty. There are also a couple of Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil rock tunes in which she sounds slightly trashy and out of her depth. The Peter Allen songs on side two are really more her style. In fact, the whole second half of Bernadette Peters is just about perfect, from the star's semi-C&W rendition of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller's "Pearl's a Singer" to a wistful recap of Harry Warren and Mark Gordon's romantic "You'll Never Know." But the best cuts are in between. "Other Lady," written by Lesley Gore (!) with Ellen Weston, tackles an age-old problem with... devastating eloquence... and Peters delivers it with the proper brooding introspection. Allen's compositions, "Only Wounded" (co-written with Carole Bayer Sager) and the torchy "I Never Thought I'd Break" (co-written with Dean Pitchford), feature the finest singing on the LP. ...the unusual absence of airbrushing echo places heavy demands on the chanteuse's sultry soprano. That Bernadette Peters rises to the occasion makes her performance that much more impressive."[57] ”

Her next solo album, Now Playing (1981), featured songs by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Carole Bayer Sager and Marvin Hamlisch, and Stephen Sondheim (for example, "Broadway Baby").[58] Bernadette Peters was re-released on CD in 1992 as Bernadette, with the 1980 Vargas cover art, and included some of the songs from Now Playing. In 1996, she was nominated for a Grammy Award for her best-selling album, I'll Be Your Baby Tonight, which includes popular songs by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Lyle Lovett, Hank Williams, Sam Cooke, and Billy Joel, as well as Broadway classics by Leonard Bernstein and Rodgers and Hammerstein.[2] The live recording of her 1996 Carnegie Hall concert, Sondheim, Etc. - Bernadette Peters Live At Carnegie Hall, also was nominated for a Grammy Award.

Peters's next studio album, in 2002, Bernadette Peters Loves Rodgers and Hammerstein, consisted entirely of Rodgers and Hammerstein songs, including two that she sings in her concerts, "Some Enchanted Evening" and "There Is Nothin' Like a Dame".[59] This album, which reached position 14 in the "Top Internet Charts",[52] was her third album in a row nominated for a Grammy. It formed the basis of her Radio City Music Hall solo concert debut in June 2002.[60] Her last solo album, titled Sondheim Etc., Etc. Live At Carnegie Hall: The Rest of It, was released in 2005. It consists of all of the songs (and patter) from her 1996 Carnegie Hall concert that were not included in the earlier recording.[61]

Additionally, Peters has recorded songs on other albums, such as "Dublin Lady" on John Whelan's Flirting with the Edge (Narada, 1998). On the Mandy Patinkin Dress Casual 1990 album, Patinkin and Peters recorded the songs from Stephen Sondheim's 1966 television play, Evening Primrose. On the tribute album Born to the Breed: A Tribute to Judy Collins Peters sings "Trust Your Heart".[62][63]

Concert performances

Peters has been performing her solo concert in the United States and Canada for many years. [64] She made her solo concert debut at Carnegie Hall in New York City in 1996, devoting the second half to the work of Stephen Sondheim.[65] She performed a similar concert in London, which was taped and released on video, and also aired on U.S. Public Television stations in 1999. She continues to perform her solo concert at venues around the U.S., such as the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami,[66] and with symphony orchestras such as the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra,[67] the Dallas Symphony,[68] and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Hall.[69]

In a review of her 2002 Radio City Music Hall concert, Stephen Holden of the New York Times described Peters as "the peaches-and-cream embodiment of an ageless storybook princess... inside a giant soap bubble floating toward heaven. A belief in the power of the dreams behind Rodgers and Hammerstein's songs, if not in their reality, was possible."[70] Peters made her solo concert debut at Lincoln Center in New York City on May 1, 2006. Holden, reviewing this concert, noted, "Even while swiveling across the stage of Avery Fisher Hall like a voluptuous Botticelli Venus in Bob Mackie spangles... she radiated a preternatural innocence.... For the eternal child in all of us, she evokes a surrogate childhood playmate".[71]

In June 2009, Peters was the headliner at the 2009 Adelaide Cabaret Festival in Adelaide, Australia. A recording of this performance is expected to be released on DVD worldwide later in 2009.[50]

Other activities

Peters at Broadway Barks, 2006

Peters contributes her time and talents to various charitable and civic efforts. In 1999 Peters and Mary Tyler Moore co-founded "Broadway Barks", an annual animal adopt-a-thon held in New York City. Their goals are to promote adopting animals from shelters and to make New York City a no-kill city. To support this cause, Peters has written a children's book about a scrappy dog, based on her dog Kramer, titled Broadway Barks (Blue Apple Books, April 2008) and words and music to a lullaby, titled "Kramer's Song", included on a CD in the book.[72] She has written a second book to benefit the charity, which is based on her pit bull, Stella, and focuses on the moral of not judging a book (or a breed) by its cover. Titled Stella Is a Star, it is expected to be released in the Spring of 2010 by Blue Apple Books. Both books are illustrated by Liz Murphy.[73][74]

Peters sings four songs on the CD accompanying the children's picture book Dewey Doo-it Helps Owlie Fly Again, for the Christopher Reeve Foundation. Her co-star from Sunday in the Park With George, Mandy Patinkin, also sings on the CD.[75][76] Peters serves on the Board of Trustees of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS[77] and participates in the organization's events, such as the annual Broadway Flea Market and Grand Auction,[78] and the "Gypsy of the Year" competition.[79] She is also a member of the Board of Directors of Standing Tall, a non-profit educational program offering an innovative program for children with multiple disabilities, based in New York City (Her late husband was the Director and Treasurer of Standing Tall).[80] In addition, the 1995 Anyone Can Whistle concert and her "Carnegie Hall" 1996 concert were benefits for the Gay Men's Health Crisis.

On November 30, 2007 Peters helped the Broadway community celebrate the end of the 2007 Broadway stagehand strike in a "Broadway's Back" concert at the Marquis Theatre.[81] On September 15, 2008, she was one of the participants in a fund-raiser for the Westport Country Playhouse.[82] On October 16, 2008, she participated in the opening ceremony and dedication of the renovated TKTS discount ticket booth in Times Square.[83] On October 30, 2008, Peters presented Mayor Michael Bloomberg with the Humanitarian Award at the Breast Cancer Research Foundation awards.[84] On March 8, 2009, she helped celebrate the birthday of Senator Ted Kennedy (singing "There Is Nothin' Like a Dame") in a private concert and ceremony held at the Kennedy Center, hosted by Bill Cosby, with many Senators, Representatives, and President Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama in attendance.[85]

Personal life

At the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival for the premiere of I Am Because We Are.

Peters married investment adviser Michael Wittenberg on July 20, 1996 at the upstate New York home of long-time friend Mary Tyler Moore. Wittenberg died at age 43 on September 26, 2005 in a helicopter crash in Montenegro while on a business trip.[86][87]

Peters has two dogs, a mixed-breed dog named Kramer and a pit bull named Stella, both adopted from shelters. Peters's goddaughter Isabelle and Kramer were the inspirations for the characters in her previously mentioned first children's book, Broadway Barks,[88] and Stella is the subject of the forthcoming second children's book.[24]

Honorary awards

Peters has received many honorary awards over the years, including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (April 1987);[89] the Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year (1987);[90] the Sarah Siddons Award for outstanding performance in a Chicago theatrical production (1994);[91] the American Theatre Hall of Fame at the Gershwin Theatre in New York City (1996), becoming the youngest person so honored;[92] The Actors' Fund Artistic Achievement Medal (1999);[93] an Honorary Doctorate from Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York (May 19, 2002);[94] the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame (June 28, 2002);[95] and the National Dance Institute 2009 Artistic Honoree (April 30, 2009).[96]

Work

Stage (selected)

Production Date Notes
This is Goggle 1958 Professional stage debut
The Girl in the Freudian Slip 1967 Broadway debut (standby)[97][98]
Johnny No-Trump 1967
George M! 1968 Theatre World Award for Debut Performance
Dames at Sea 1968 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Performer
La Strada 1969 A famous flop, the musical closed after one official performance.[99] Peters's performance was praised.[100]
Nevertheless, They Laugh 1971 Lamb's Club, New York City, March 1971 (5 performances)[101]
W.C. 1971 Starring Mickey Rooney, the musical played only in out of town tryouts from May 1971-October 1971, never opening in New York City[102]
On the Town 1971 (revival) Tony Award Best Featured Actress in a Musical (nominee), Peters's first Tony Award nomination
Mack and Mabel 1974 Tony Award Best Actress in a Musical (nominee)
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical (nominee)
Sally and Marsha 1982 Drama Desk Award (nominee)
Sunday in the Park with George 1984 Tony Award Best Actress in a Musical (nominee)
Drama Desk Award Outstanding Actress in a Musical (nominee)
Song and Dance 1986 Tony Award Best Actress in a Musical
Drama Desk Award Outstanding Actress in a Musical
Into the Woods 1987 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Actress in a Musical (nominee)
The Goodbye Girl 1993 Tony Award Best Actress in a Musical (nominee)
Annie Get Your Gun 1999 (revival) Tony Award Best Actress in a Musical
Drama Desk Award Outstanding Actress in a Musical
Outer Critics Circle Award Outstanding Actress in a Musical
Gypsy 2003 (revival) Tony Award Best Actress in a Musical (nominee)
Drama Desk Award Outstanding Actress in a Musical (nominee)

Filmography

Television

Concerts

Major concerts
Other notable concerts
  • "Sondheim: A Celebration At Carnegie Hall" (broadcast on PBS Great Performances in 1993) — June 10, 1992
  • "Hey Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron MacKintosh" — June 7, 1998[115]
  • Hollywood Bowl Sondheim Concert — July 8, 2005[116]

Discography

Solo recordings
  • Bernadette Peters (1980) MCA.
  • Now Playing (1981) MCA
  • I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (1996) Angel Records – Grammy Award nominee
  • Sondheim, Etc. - Bernadette Peters Live At Carnegie Hall (1997) Angel Records – Grammy Award nominee[117]
  • Bernadette Peters Loves Rodgers and Hammerstein (2002) Angel Records – Grammy Award nominee
  • Sondheim Etc., Etc.Live At Carnegie Hall: The Rest of It (2005) Angel Records
  • Kramer's Song (2008) Blue Apple Books (single)
Cast recordings
  • George M! – Sony (1968)
  • Dames At Sea – Columbia Masterworks (1969)
  • Mack and Mabel – MCA (1974)
  • Sunday in the Park with George – RCA Records (1984) – Grammy Award winner (Best Cast Show Album, 1985)
  • Song and Dance – The Songs – RCA Victor (1985)
  • Into The Woods – RCA Victor Records (1988) – Grammy Award winner (Best Musical Cast Show Album, 1989)
  • The Goodbye Girl – Columbia Records (1993)
  • Anyone Can Whistle Live At Carnegie Hall – Columbia Records (1995)
  • Annie Get Your Gun The New Broadway Cast Recording – Angel Records (1999) – Grammy Award winner (Best Musical Show Album, 2000)
  • Gypsy The New Broadway Cast Recording – Angel Records (2003) – Grammy Award winner (Best Musical Show Album, 2004)
  • Sherry! – Studio Cast Recording – Angel Records (2004)
  • Legends Of Broadway-Bernadette Peters Compilation (2006) – Sony Masterworks Broadway (Consisits of original versions of songs from Dames At Sea, Annie Get Your Gun, Anyone Can Whistle, Sunday in the Park with George, Mack and Mabel, Song and Dance, Into The Woods, and Gypsy.) [118]
Other recordings
  • Dress Casual – Evening Primrose suite with Mandy Patinkin – CBS Records (1990)[119]
  • Sondheim – A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (Concert Cast) RCA Victor Broadway (1992)
  • Hey Mr. Producer!: The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh – Philips Records (1998)
  • Flirting with the Edge – John Whelan – Narada (1998)
  • Dewey Doo-It Helps Owlie Fly Again – RandallFraser Publishing (2005)
  • Born to the Breed: A Tribute to Judy Collins – Wildflower Records (2008) - "Trust Your Heart"

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References

  • Bryer, Jackson R. and Richard Allan Davison. The Art Of The American Musical: Conversations With The Creators (2005), Rutgers University Press, ISBN 0813536138
  • Crespy, David Allison. Off-Off-Broadway Explosion (2003), Back Stage Books, ISBN 0823088324
  • Knapp, Raymond. The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity (2006), Princeton University Press, ISBN 0691125244

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