"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
While we're on the subject of Les Mis, I'd love a complete recording of the score for the film adaptation, since the 'deluxe' version we got, while featuring more singing and songs than the 'highlights' edition that was originally released, is still missing a bunch of stuff that would be great to have available for home-listening.
I would say "Cry-Baby", but it was recorded and it's being released this fall! Other than that, "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever" would be swell to have. Also, I doubt they'll record one for the new production of "Spring Awakening", but I saw it in LA and there are some tiny changes to orchestration, and the cast sounds lovely, so I'd love that one.
They/them.
"Get up the nerve to be all you deserve to be."
I wish that the original cast recording of Side Show had not been so heavily truncated. It would have been wonderful to have had a full two-disc set with Alice and Emily.
Oh my god, yes. I like the recording with Catherine Zeta-Jones, but I think I would have loved Bernadette on the recording (and it would fit so well with her being on the recordings of other Sondheim: Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Anyone Can Whistle, Gypsy, Follies). Between Angela Lansbury and Elaine Stritch, that's a tough one (I didn't see either one but I love the idea of both of them as the Madame).
"Contentment, it seems, simply happens. It appears accompanied by no bravos and no tears."
Was there a recording of the 1994 revival of carousel? If there is I can't find it and I want it now.
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I wish that all of the Hedwigs from the current Broadway revival could have had some sort of EP, especially Taye because his voice just brings something so new and fresh to those songs. And of course the other two JCM recordings are good but I really prefer the current orchestrations.
I wish that all of the Hedwigs from the current Broadway revival could have had some sort of EP, especially Taye because his voice just brings something so new and fresh to those songs. And of course the other two JCM recordings are good but I really prefer the current orchestrations.