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Hadestown (October 2020)

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Hamilton Book Nook (December 2020)

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popping in to say Twitter's great because Betty Buckley searches her own name

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Jenna Russell sings Days and Days from Fun Home [London, 19 June 2018]

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I love Judi Dench in everything she does. I worked with her in 1989, in The Cherry Orchard. Judi was playing Madame Ranevskaya, and I was her daughter, Varya.

I was very struck by watching Judi rehearse. She’d find a moment in the play, and I’d sit there thinking, “Well, that’s amazing. Surely that will now be set in stone.” But it never was. Every time we rehearsed, she would dig and delve and perform that moment another way. She was constantly in the moment, in a very natural and uncalculated way. I think that’s her great gift: that boldness, that confidence in what she can do. She never plays it safe. - Lesley Manville

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The Loveland Transition, Boston, 1971; set design by Boris Aronson

from https://www.flickr.com/photos/28698051@N08/with/2851762715/

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i’m losing it. patti is an absolute legend. 

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A beautiful rendition of Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Johanna (Reprise)’ from Sweeney Todd, in the style of Sufjan Stevens.

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I've never related more to anyone in my entire life than I do to this kid waiting in line to see Maria Callas sing Tosca.

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Bernadette Peters in Bob Mackie at the Academy Awards (1981)

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Also who cares about a follies film unless it involves the Muppets. They failed us on that with Into the woods so this is their last chance to make good on that

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Hal Prince, Patti LuPone, and Paul Huntley at a costume fitting for Evita, 1979

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Bernadette Peters threw the first brick at Stonewall

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Marin Mazzie sings Send in the Clowns from A Little Night Music [Prague, 2 February 2016]

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Things Velmas say

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BERNADETTE PETERS in Song & Dance

Bernadette Peters won her first Tony Award for her performance in the 1985 Broadway musical "Song & Dance."  Here is a brief press reel (featuring both the "song" and "dance" halves of the show),   followed by the opening number from a 9/85 performance.