Bernadette Peters (born Bernadette Lazzara ; February 28, 1948) is a writer of American actresses, singers, and children. During a career that has lasted for five decades, he has starred in musical theater, television and film, performing in solo concerts and recordings. She is one of Broadway's most critically acclaimed players, having received nominations for seven Tony Awards, winning two (plus honors awards), and nine Drama Desk Awards, winning three. Four of his Broadway cast albums he won won the Grammy Awards.
Regarded by many as the main translator of Stephen Sondheim's works, Peters is notable for his role on the Broadway stage, including in Mack and Mabel musicals, Sunday in the Park with George , < i> Song and Dance , Into the Forest , Goodbye Girl , Annie Get Your Pistol and Gypsy .
Peters first appeared on stage as a child and then a teenage actress in the 1960s, and in film and television in the 1970s. She is praised for this early work and for appearances on The iMuppet Show, The Carol Burnett Show and in other television work, and for her roles in films like Silent Film , The Jerk , Pennies from Heaven and Annie . In the 1980s, he returned to the theater, where he became one of Broadway's most famous stars for the next three decades. He has also recorded six solo albums and several singles, as well as numerous casting albums, and performed regularly in his own solo concert event. In 2010, Peters went on stage, in movies and television in series like Smash and Mozart in the Jungle . She has been nominated for three Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards, winning once.
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Early life and career
Peters was born in an American Sicilian family in Ozone Park, Queens, New York, the youngest of three children. His father, Peter Lazzara, drove a delivery truck, and his mother, Marguerite (Malta), started his show business by placing it on the Juvenile Jury television show at the age of three and a half year. His siblings are casting director Donna DeSeta and Joseph Lazzara. She appeared on the TV show The Name That Song and several times on The Horn and Hardart Children's Hour at the age of five.
In January 1958, at the age of nine, he obtained an Actor Equity Card in the name Bernadette Peters to avoid ethnic stereotypes, with the stage name taken from his father's first name. She made her professional stage debut in the same month on "The Goggle", a comedy directed by Otto Preminger that was closed during trials outside town before reaching New York. She later appeared on NBC television as Anna Stieman in A Called Ciske's Broom, a Kraft Mystery Theater production, in May 1958, and in a vinyet entitled "Miracle in the Orphanage", part of "The Christmas Tree ", Hallmark Hall of Fame production, in December 1958 with child actor Richard Thomas and veteran actors Jessica Tandy and Margaret Hamilton. He first appeared on the stage of New York at the age of 10 as Tessie at the New York City Center of resurrection The Most Happy Fella (1959). In his teenage years, he studied at the Quintano School for Young Professionals, a now-defunct private school, followed by several famous people, such as Steven Tyler.
At the age of 13, Peters appeared as one of the "Hollywood Blondes" and was a substitute for "Dainty June" on the second national tour of Gypsy . During this tour, Peters first met his longtime companion, conductor and arranger, Marvin Laird, who became assistant conductor for the tour. Laird recalled, "I heard him sing one or two strange sentences and thought, 'God is the big voice of that little girl,'" The next summer, she played Dainty June in the summer, and in 1962 she recorded her first single. In 1964, he played Liesl on The Sound of Music and Jenny at Riverwind in summer stock at Mt. Gretna Playhouse (Pennsylvania) and Riverwind again at the Bucks County Playhouse in 1966. After graduating from high school, he started working steadily, appearing outside Broadway in the musical The Penny Friend i> (1966) and Curley McDimple (1967) and as a standby on Broadway at the Girl in the Freudian Slip (1967). He made his Broadway debut at Johnny No-Trump in 1967, and later appeared as George M. Cohan Josie's sister against Joel Gray at George M! (1968), won the World Theater Award.
Peters' appearance as a "Ruby" in the 1968 Off-Broadway production of Dames at Sea, a 1930s musical parody, carries critical praise and his first Drama Desk Award. He has appeared in early versions of 1966 from Dames on Sea at Caffe Cino Off-Off-Broadway show club. Peters has starred in roles in his next Broadway vehicle - Gelsomina in La Strada (1969) and Hildy in On the Town (1971), where he received his first Tony Award nomination. He played Mabel Normand in Mack and Mabel (1974), receiving another Tony nomination. Clive Barnes writes: "With Mack & amp; Mabel ... small and contralious against Bernadette Peters found himself as a major Broadway star." Despite this short run, Peters was chosen for praise by critics, and the Mack and Mabel cast album became popular among musical theater enthusiasts. He moved to Los Angeles in the early 1970s to concentrate on television and film.
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Movie appearance
Peters has appeared in 33 widescreen movies or television movies starting in 1973, including the Mel Rocks 1976 film Silent Movie (which he nominated for a Golden Globe Award), musical Annie i> (1982), Pink Cadillac (1989), where he co-stars Clint Eastwood, and Woody Allen's Alice (1990).
Peters starred against Steve Martin at The Jerk (1979), in the role he wrote for him, and again at Pennies From Heaven (1981), where he won the Golden Globe Award as Best Actress in Comedy or Musical Movies. In Pennies from Heaven , she plays Eileen Everson, a school teacher turned into a prostitute. Regarding his appearance on Pennies From Heaven, John DiLeo writes that he "is not only as poignant as you would expect but has surprising inner strength." Pauline Kael writes in The New Yorker : "Peters is mysteriously right in every nuance." Kael further notes that "The number of dances is cute, amazing, and beautiful at the same time, some of them just about perfection."
Peters appeared with three generations of the Kirk Douglas family in the 2003 film Run It in the Family, where he played the character's wife Michael Douglas. In May 2006, she appeared in the movie Let's Formiche (Wine and Kisses ) with F. Murray Abraham, filmed in Italy, playing a rich American who became involved with the Italian Family which has a vineyard. DVD was released in 2007 in Italy. She starred in a movie titled Coming Up Roses, playing a former musical comedy artist with two daughters. The film, directed by Lisa Albright, was released in 2012.
The role of the theater, 1980s to present
In 1982, Peters returned to the stage of New York after an eight-year hiatus in one of his non-musical stage performances, Off-Broadway Manhattan Theater Club's comedy drama production Sally and Marsha , where he was nominated to Awards Drama Table. He then returned to Broadway as Dot/Marie in Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine's musical in Sunday Garden with George in 1984, where he received his third Tony Award nomination. The New York Times theater critic Frank Rich calls his appearance "radiant". He recorded the role for PBS in 1986, winning the 1987 ACE award. His next role was Emma at Andrew Lloyd Webber's
He later created the Wizarding role in Sondheim-Lapine's Into the Woods (1987). Peters "is considered by many to be the main translator of Sondheim's work," according to author Alex Witchel. Raymond Knapp writes that Peters "achieved his definitive fame" at Sunday in the Park With George and Into the Woods . Sondheim said of Peters, "Like very few others, he sings and acts at the same time," he said. "Most players are acting and then singing, acting and then singing... Bernadette is as perfect as I know I can not think of anything negative." Peters continued his relationship with Sondheim by performing at a 1995 charity concert from Anyone Can Whistle , playing the role of Fay Apple. In addition, he appeared in several concerts featuring Sondheim's work, and performed for him at the 1993 Kennedy Center Honors ceremony.
He later starred in Neil Simon's music adaptation of The Goodbye Girl with music by Marvin Hamlisch (1993). Peters won the second Tony for Best Actress in the Musical for her performance as Annie Oakley in the 1999 Broadway revival Annie Get Your Gun. Among the many glowing notices, Lloyd Rose critic of the Washington Post commented: "[Peters] drove Ethel Merman's thoughts about two bars to his first number, 'Doin' What Comes Natur'lly. ' this is because Annie Merman is a fierce and energetic girl, while Peters plays an adorable gamine and a bit silly... For anyone who cares about American musical theater, the chance to see Peters in this role is enough reason to see shows. " Playbill goes even further: "Practically the most talented comedian in today's musical theater, Peters managed to bring out laughter from every line he gave."
In 2003, Peters starred as Mama Rose on Broadway awakening Gypsy , earning Tony's other nominees. Ben Brantley in his review New York Times writes, "Working against the types and expectations under Sam Mendes, Ny. Peters has created the most elaborate and interesting portrait of his long career, and he has done this in ways that radically deviate from the Merman blueprint. "In 2006, he participated in Sondheim - Weidman Bounce 's musical recording In 2007, Peters participated in a charity reading of the drama Love Letters with John Dossett.Parters starred in Broadway revival Sondheim's A Little Night Music (2010), replacing Catherine Zeta-Jones in her role. The New York Times reviewer writes about her performance,
[F] or theater lovers will have no greater fun today than watching Bernadette Peters perform an event signature number, "Send In Clowns," with the emotional transparency and musical delights that transform this celebrated song into an opportunity of art transport. I'm not sure I've experienced it with such a vivid strength - or such a prominent lump - the sense of being present at an unforgettable moment in the history of musical theater.
Peters' next stage appearance was in the role of Sally Durant Plummer at the Kennedy Center for the production of Sondheim-Goldman Follies in 2011. One critic writes: "Peters... amazingly captures the sadness and longing of character This is a star turn, for sure, but one that brings attention to itself because of its truth.Not surprisingly, his appearance of 'Lost Mind' is just devastated. "He changed his role in Broadway revival at Marquis Theater, then in 2011 , and received a nomination for the Drama Desk Award, Best Actress in Music.
Peters starred in Sondheim and Wynton Marsalis held a concert show titled A New York Love Affair in New York City Center in 2013. This collaboration between Encores! and Jazz at Lincoln Center directed by John Doyle, with jazzy arrangements of Sondheim songs. Peters sings "Broadway Baby", "The Ladies Who Lunch", "Is not He Something?", "I Remember" and "With So Little to Be Sure", among others. Jesse Green, in his review on the New York Magazine ' Vulture Website, commented: "[W] hat is heartbreaking (and funny) actress Peters "Brantley, in her review
Peters returns to Broadway in the lead role of the 2017 revival Hello, Dolly! at the Shubert Theater. Replacing Bette Midler, Peters started the show on January 20, 2018. Marilyn Stasio writes in Variety : "Dolly's personal style is to twist and lure people to get her way. (Her 'So Long, Dearie' is an unbearable gem.) He also has an acting to moisten an eyeball when he asks his late husband to bless his resignation from the widow and rejoin the human race in 'Before the Parade Passes'. "
Theater Awards
Peters has been nominated for the Tony Award seven times and won twice, plus an honors award. She has also been nominated for Drama Desk Award nine times and won three times, for Annie Get Your Gun, Song and Dance and Dames at Sea. At the 66th Tony Awards in 2012, Peters was awarded the honorary Isabelle Stevenson Award for "contributing substantially to the time and voluntary effort on behalf of one or more humanitarian, social services or charitable organizations, regardless of whether the organization is related to the theater" specifically for his work with Broadway Barks. In making the announcement for this award, Tony's official website noted "With a rich spirit of generosity, Bernadette Peters' devotion to charity may be only comparable to his many dedication to doing.... Peters efforts are held at the highest award on Broadway and beyond." BC/EFA Tom Viola said, "The unlimited love and generosity of Bernadette represents the best in us all."
Television appearance
Peters was nominated for the Emmy Awards for his role as a guest star on The Muppet Show (1977) and Ally McBeal (2001). On The Muppet Show, Peters sings "Just One Person" for Robin the Frog. She was one of Muppet's guests when they entertained The Tonight Show in 1979, again singing "Just One Person" for Robin, and she appeared in another episode with Muppets. Peters was also nominated for an Emmy Daytime 2003 award, Outstanding Performer in Special Children, for his work in the 2002 animated film 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.
She has appeared on various shows with stars like Sonny and Cher and George Burns. She has been featured and featured on Academy Awards broadcasts in 1976, 1981, 1983, 1987 and 1994. Peters has been a presenter at the annual Tony Awards ceremony and co-hosted with Gregory Hines in June 2002. She also hosts > Saturday Night Live in November 1981. He made 11 guest appearances on The Carol Burnett Show and performed with Burnett in a version made for a Once Upon Television Mattress > and the 1982 film Annie . He also appeared at the Kennedy Center Honors ceremony for Burnett in 2003. Peters appeared on The Tonight Show Show starring Johnny Carson and on the daytime talk show Live with Regis and Kelly , both as co-host and guest. Peters voiced Rita the stray cat in the "Rita and Runt" segment of the Animaniacs animated series in the 1990s. Peters, as Rita, sang both original songs written for performances and parodies of Broadway music numbers. She appeared on Inside the Actor's Studio in November 2000, discussing her career and expertise.
Peters has starred in a number of television movies, including Last Year (1990) with Mary Tyler Moore, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella (1997) with Brandy (receiving nominations for "Golden Satellite Award "for his 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. He plays a young, liberal photographer, who became involved in romance with an older conservative columnist. Although Peters was praised for his charismatic performance, the show lasted only one season. Peters was nominated for a Golden Globe award as Best TV Actress - Musical/Comedy. In March 2005, he made a pilot for the ABC sitcom titled Adopted , co-starred with Christine Baranski, but was not picked up. Peters appeared on the Live Proof Live TV show, which was first broadcast on October 18, 2008. She played the role of Barbara, an art teacher with breast cancer, who was initially reluctant to participate in the study. for Herceptin cancer drugs. Andrew Gans of Playbill wrote, "Peters can choose from an extensive emotional palette to color the characters, and his looks... move, funny and ultimately uplifting".
Peters' television work also includes guest appearances on several television series. She appeared as Karen Walker's sharp-tongued sister (Megan Mullally) on the last second episode of the NBC series Will & amp; Grace , "What Happens to Baby Gin?" (May 2006); as a defense attorney on the NBC series, Legal & amp; Order: Special Victims Unit (November 2006); as a judge on the ABC series Boston Legal (May 2007); and as an accident victim at Gray's Anatomy (September 2008). About his role in Gray's Anatomy , TV Guide wrote: "Peters is very good as he faces a life that is spinning out of control.I would make it an early contender for the guest nominees- Emmy actors. "In January, February and May 2009, he appeared in the ABC Ugly Betty series in five episodes as Jodie Papadakis, a magazine magazine that runs the YETI (Young Editor Training Initiative) program that Betty and Marc are on. His performance at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival in June 2009 was filmed and aired in Australia later that month.
Peters first appeared in the NBC series Smash in the March 2012 episode of "The Workshop", as Leigh Conroy, Ivy's mother, a retired Broadway star, who feels competitive because of her growing career. He visited the workshop and sang the Emergence of the All Roses from the Gypsy at the urging of the workshop players. He also appeared in the final of season 1, "Bombshell" (May 2012), to celebrate Ivy's alleged role as Marilyn, in the episode "The Parents" (April 2013), where, as Leigh, he sings original songs of Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman songs, "Hang the Moon", and in the episode "Opening Night" (April 2013) and "The Phenomenon" (May 2013).
Since 2014, Peters has played Gloria, chairman of the orchestra board at Mozart in the Jungle, a web video series by Amazon Studios based on Blair Tindall's memoir of the same name. The show was taken for the second and third seasons. She is guest on the TV series Bravo 2014
Peters played the recurring role of Lenore Rindell in the spin-off of The Good Wife television series, titled The Good Fight, which airs on CBS and CBS All Access starting in February 2017 Lenore and her husband Henry is a financial and con artist; they are the parents of a main character, Maia, a young lawyer.
Recordings
Peters has recorded six solo albums and several singles. Three of his albums have been nominated for a Grammy Award. Peters '1980 single "Gee Whiz", made remake of Carla Thomas' 1960 Memphis soul hit, reaching the top 40 on the US pop singles chart Billboard . He has recorded most of the Broadway and Broadway musical performances he has performed, and four of these albums have won the Grammy Awards.
Peters' debut album in 1980 (an LP), titled Bernadette Peters contains 10 songs, including "If You Are the Only One", "Gila Gila", "Earthquake", "Should Never Be Left Him Go "," Chico's Girl "," Pearl's a Singer "," Other Lady "," Just Hurt "," I Do not Think I'll Break "and" You Will not Know ". The original cover art by Alberto Vargas is one of his last works, made at the age of 84. According to Peters' New York Daily News, persuaded him to perform one last portrait of 'Vargas Girls'... She just went to the California retreat, asked her to do another one, she looked at him and said, 'You are a Vargas girl!' "He kept the original painting.The original title planned for the album is The Decade . Rolling Stone writes about his debut album:
Peters debuted in the recording as a first-class pop torch singer: Melissa Manchester with soul, Bette Midler on the field. Her album has spawned hit singles "Gee Whiz," a casual version, doo-wop... that makes Peters faint, the little girl's voice looks almost like cute novelty. There are also some rock songs Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil where he sounds a little dirty and out of his depth. The songs of Peter Allen on the two side are really more stylish. In fact, the whole second half of Bernadette Peters is almost perfect, from the semi-C & amp; W from Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller's â € Å"Pearl's a Singerâ € to Harry Warren's vague and romantic Mark Gordon recap, "You'll never know." But the best cut is between them. "Another Mistress," written by Lesley Gore (!) With Ellen Weston, handles the ancient problem with a... destructive eloquence... and Peters delivers it with good introspection. The composition of Allen, "Only Wounded" (written together with Carole Bayer Sager) and the "I Never Thought I Break" (written with Dean Pitchford), featured the best singing in LP... the unusual absence of airbrushing echoes put heavy demands on soprano knight accompanist. That Bernadette Peters rose to the occasion made her appearance much more memorable.
The next solo album, Now Playing (1981), featured songs by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Carole Bayer Sager and Marvin Hamlisch, and Stephen Sondheim (eg, "Broadway Baby"). Bernadette Peters was re-released on CD in 1992 as Bernadette , with cover cover of Vargas 1980, and included some 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 included popular songs by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Lyle Lovett, Hank Williams, Sam Cooke and Billy Joel, as well as the Broadway classics by Leonard Bernstein and Rodgers and Hammerstein. Live footage from his 1996 Carnegie Hall concert, Sondheim, Dll - Bernadette Peters Live At Carnegie Hall , was also nominated for a Grammy Award.
The next studio album Peters, in 2002, Bernadette Peters Loves Rodgers and Hammerstein , consisted entirely of Rodgers and Hammerstein songs, including two songs he often sang in concerts, "Some Enchanted Evening" and "There Is Nothin 'Like a Dame ". This album, which reached position 14 on Billboard The Top Internet Album Album, was her third consecutive album nominated for a Grammy Award. It became the basis of Radio City Music Hall's solo concert debut in June 2002. His last solo album, titled Sondheim Dll, Etc. Live At Carnegie Hall: The Rest of It , released in 2005 It consists of all the songs (and patter) of Carnegie Hall's 1996 concert which was not included in the previous recording.
In addition, Peters has recorded songs on other albums, such as "Dublin Lady" at John Whelan's Flirting with the Edge (Narada, 1998). On 1990's Mandy Patinkin Casual Dress album, Patinkin and Peters recorded songs from Stephen Sondheim's 1966 television drama, Evening Primrose . On the tribute album Born to Breed: A Tribute to Judy Collins Peters sang "Believe Your Heart".
In The New York Times review of the 1986 Broadway song recording of Song and Dance (titled Bernadette Peters in Andrew Lloyd Webber's song "Song & Dance" ), Stephen Holden writes that the recording was "a personal triumph for a singer and actress who quickly established himself as the first woman of Broadway musicals.Kitsch's border and lyrical performances and her story suggested verbose soap operas. projecting incredible generosity and emotional conviction.Almost alone he transforms the insignificant erotic misery of Emma... into a romantic love story that touches on love and defense and the loss of innocence... Miss Peters always brings out the likes of sweetness and vulnerability like Shirley Temple, this quality, which used to look more like an adorable child's star impression than its deep nature, has proven to be an element important from Miss Peters personality. emed coy and cute have deepened and matured into honesty and compassion flowing in childish singing but also resilient. "
In 2003, Andrew Gans wrote in Playbill.com's Peters recording sessions for Gypsy : "What is it about his very touching voice? Some feminine and parted, it is a powerful instrument , not only in volume (although it is impressive) but in emotional richness it is able to convey.... its voice - a mixture of hoarse, sweet, round, vibrant tones - induces a response that stretches the emotional scale. "About" Rose's Turn " Gans wrote: "... his rendition of this song is probably the highlight of a career that has been filled with a lot of highlights: He has picked up a song that has been wonderfully submitted by others and brought him to a new level." About her appearance on footage of Follies (2011), Steven Suskin wrote on Playbill.com : "This is a good Sally, the sort of Sally you'd expect to get from an actress like - well, Bernadette Peters, the performance on the CD is fascinating: it's just the magic of the recording studio or Peters has changed what he did and how he did it. "
Concert performances
Peters has been performing solo concerts in the United States and Canada for many years. He made his solo concert debut at Carnegie Hall in New York City in 1996, devoting the second half to Stephen Sondheim's work. He performed similar concerts in London, recorded and released on video, and also aired on US Public Television stations in 1999. He continued to perform solo concerts in places around the US, such as Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, and with symphonic orchestras such as the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Hall.
In a review of his 2002 Radio City Music Hall concert, Stephen Holden of The New York Times describes Peters as "a peaches-and-cream manifestation of an ageless princess story... in bubbles gigantic soap floating to heaven.The belief in the dream power behind Rodgers and Hammerstein's songs, if not in reality, is possible. "Peters made his solo concert debut at Lincoln Center in New York City in 2006. Holden, reviewing this concert, noted, "Even when spinning on the stage of Avery Fisher Hall like Venus Botticelli gaping at Bob Mackie spangles... he radiates the preternatural innocence.... For an eternal child in all of us, he awakens a playmate childhood replacement." Peters is the main character at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2009 in Adelaide, Australia. The Sunday Mail writes that Peters shows "the spirit, spirit, and voice of someone half his age."
Peters concert performances often benefit art organizations or help them to mark special occasions, such as his appearance on an overnight cruise on Seabourn Odyssey in stead of the Adrienne Arsht Center for Performing Arts in Miami in 2009. He is one of the artists to help celebrate the opening of the Center in 2006. He became the headline of the Black Dance Gala Alliance Friendship at Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza in Thousand Oaks, California, on November 21, 2009. He has helped to celebrate the opening of Plaza Art with a concert fifteen years earlier. In 2015, Peters performed at Sinatra: Voice for a Century concert at Lincoln Center, fundraising for the new David Geffen Hall in celebration of Frank Sinatra's 100th birthday. She sings "It Never Entered My Mind". It is hosted by Seth MacFarlane and features the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Sting, Billy Porter, Sutton Foster and Fantasia Barrino. PBS plans to broadcast it as part of the "Live from Lincoln Center" series in December 2015.
Since 2013, he has toured intermittently with his cabaret act, An Evening with Bernadette Peters, and a series of concerts, "Bernadette Peters in Concert". In April 2014 he gave a concert show in Australia. A reviewer for The Sydney Morning Herald wrote: "Maybe it's a personality matter as much as a sound: natural warmth and the instinct to never exaggerate the emotional content of a song.Whatever the problem, it's easy to see and hear why , for 30 years, Bernadette Peters may have become the best theater player in the world... He even breathed new life into 'Send In Clowns'... Instead of making it emotionally swollen (because so many did), Peters hired him, with carefully squeeze his essence like a toothpaste from an almost empty tube. "He gave a concert in June 2016 in England at the Royal Festival Hall, the Manchester Opera House and the Edinburgh Playhouse.
Children's books
Peters sings four songs on the CD that accompany the children's drawing book 2005 Dewey Doo-it Helps Owlie Fly Again , a favorable outcome of the Christopher Reeve Foundation. Her playmate from Sunday in the Park with George , Mandy Patinkin, also sings on CD.
To support Broadway Barks, the animal adoption charity he founded with Mary Tyler Moore, Peters has written three children's books, illustrated by Liz Murphy. The first is about a dog who likes to fight, named like his dog, Kramer, and the pleasure to adopt a pet. Titled Broadway Barks , this book is published by Blue Apple Books (2008). Peters writes words and music to a ninobo, titled "Kramer's Song", which is included on the CD in the book. This book reached # 5 on The New York Times Best Kids Seller: Picture Book List for the week of June 8, 2008.
Her second children's book is the story of a pit bull, named after Peters, Stella. The character prefers to be a pig ballerina, but he learns to accept himself. Titled Stella is a Star , this book contains a CD with an original song written and performed by Peters and released in April 2010 by Blue Apple Books. According to the Publisher of Weekly , "Changing the page to Peters' passionate narration, provided on the accompanying CD, makes the reading experience more usable.The story and disc end silently affect the self-esteem of the national anthem, which, his own fairy tales, backed by beautiful author vocals. "Peters introduced the book to readings and signings in which he also sang part of the song, in LA Times Festival of Books, Los Angeles, California, on April 24, 2010.
The third book, released in 2015, titled Stella and Charlie Friends Forever , is about a Charlie rescue dog who joins his family, and how Charlie mingles with his older dog, Stella.
Other activities
- Broadway Barks
Peters contribute to various charity, celebration and citizenship efforts. In 1999, Peters and Mary Tyler Moore founded Broadway Barks, an annual animal adoption event in New York City. Every July, Peters hosts Broadway Barks adoption event in New York City. Peters held a concert, "A Special Concert for Broadway Barks Since Broadway Cares", at Minskoff Theater, New York City, on November 9, 2009 as a benefit for both Broadway Barks and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The concert raised about $ 615,000 for two charities. Also in support of Broadway Barks, Peters has appeared on the talk show during the day Live With Regis and Kelly .
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Peters serves on the Supervisory Board of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and participates in organizational events, such as the Broadway Flea Market and the annual Big Auction, and the "Gypsies of the Year" competition. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of High Standing, a non-profit education program that offers innovative programs for children with dual disabilities, based in New York City. Her late husband is the Director and Treasurer Standing Upright. The 1995 charity concert Anyone can whistle and the Peters concert â € Å"Carnegie Hallâ € 1996 is a benefit for the Gay Men Health Crisis.
In 2007, Peters helped the Broadway community celebrate the end of the stage strike at "Broadway's Back" concert at the Marquis Theater. In 2008, he was one of the fundraising participants for Westport Country Playhouse, and during the opening ceremony and dedication of the renovated TKTS discount ticket kicker in Times Square. That year, he also presented New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg with the Humanity Award at the Breast Cancer Foundation award. On March 8, 2009, he helped celebrate Senator Ted Kennedy's last birthday (singing "There Is Nothin 'Like a Dame") in a concert and private ceremony held at the Kennedy Center, hosted by Bill Cosby, with many Senators, Representatives, and President Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama are present. On November 19, 2009, he helped celebrate the opening of The David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center.
On February 8, 2010, Peters is one of many people who honor Angela Lansbury in the annual Drama League of New York gains, singing "Not While I'm Around". In March 2010, Peters helped Stephen Sondheim celebrate his 80th birthday in the benefit of Roundabout Theater Company "Sondheim 80". He is one of the Honor Chairs. He has been part of the Roundabout Theater Sondheim gala for his 75th birthday. In 2012, Peters becomes Community Protector Stephen Sondheim.
He performed at the Olivier Awards ceremony in 2014, singing the song "Losing My Mind". A review on The Arts Desk reads: "The tradition of carrying more than one or two Broadway babies... might explain the late appearance by the still-glowing Bernadette Peters, who achieved a very high note at the end of 'Losing Mind I 'often do not try by the special Sondheim songwriters. "
Personal life
Peters and Steve Martin started a romantic relationship in 1977 that lasted about four years. In 1981, his popularity caused him to appear on the cover and spread in the December 1981 edition of Playboy Magazine, where he posed in lingerie designed by Bob Mackie.
Peters married investment adviser Michael Wittenberg on July 20, 1996, at Millbrook, New York home of Mary Tyler Moore's old friend. Wittenberg died at the age of 43 on September 26, 2005, in a helicopter crash in Montenegro while on a business trip.
Peters has a mixed breed named Charlie. He has adopted all his dogs from the shelter.
Awards of honor
Peters has received many honors, including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1987. He was named the Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year in 1987. Other awards include the Sarah Siddons Award for outstanding performances in Chicago theater productions (1994 for > The Goodbye Girl ); American Theater Hall of Fame at Gershwin Theater in New York City (1996), as the youngest person to be so respected; Fund Artistic Achievement Medal Actors (1999); Honorary Doctorate from Hofstra University (2002); Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame in 2002 and the National Dance Institute 2009 Artistic Honoree. He is the recipient of the Sondheim Prize, presented by the Signature Theater in 2011.
In 2012, New Dramatists, an organization that supports the start of playwrights, presented Peters with their Lifetime Achievement Award, stating: "He has brought new voices into the theater and continues to do so, in a surprising and magical way." By some magic magic, the singularity is always managed to bring the best and richest in the work of composer and author. "In 2013, the Drama League gave Peters the Special Award for Special Achievement at the Musical Theater Award for" his contribution to musical theater. " Peters is the Centennial Honoree in the Drama League Centennial Gala in 2015. Music awards are awarded by many of Costars' fashions over the years, including the original and current players of Dames at Sea. The League says that Peters "exemplifies the best of American musical theater."
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