Did Bernadette Take a Tumble Last Night?
Did Bernadette Take a Tumble Last Night?
#1Did Bernadette Take a Tumble Last Night?
Posted: 10/16/11 at 3:07pmI saw Follies last night, and I'm wondering if anyone else saw Bernadette Peters fall over a chair as she exited the stage soon after "The Right Girl." It looked like she went down hard.
#2Did Bernadette Take a Tumble Last Night?
Posted: 10/16/11 at 5:41pmunfortunately she did. The chair was in the dark right in front of the door. She fell over it and onto the floor upstage of the door and looked back to see what it was she fell over. She went on as a trooper!
#2Did Bernadette Take a Tumble Last Night?
Posted: 10/16/11 at 5:43pm
I'm pretty sure you could shoot Bernadette during a performance and she'd finish it. Then she'd get it sewn up and do the next day's show. 
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
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#3Did Bernadette Take a Tumble Last Night?
Posted: 10/16/11 at 5:58pmAnd then someone will post on here and say, "Her voice wasn't good. Is she sick?"
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#4Did Bernadette Take a Tumble Last Night?
Posted: 10/16/11 at 6:10pmConsidering this happened after Sally's "mad scene." It seems like the perfect moment, lol. I hope she's ok though.
rjm516
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#5Did Bernadette Take a Tumble Last Night?
Posted: 10/16/11 at 9:10pmI was there last night and it DID seem like the perfect moment, given the dramatic scene preceding her exit. The audience made some murmuring, with everyone wondering if she really fell and of course if she was hurt. But then she came back and continued to kick butt, so I assumed it was just part of the script. What a trooper.
#6Did Bernadette Take a Tumble Last Night?
Posted: 10/16/11 at 9:28pmSome backstage folks probably had their ass handed to them. Can you imagine how mortifying and awful it would be for Miss Peters to fall due to something you missed.
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#7Did Bernadette Take a Tumble Last Night?
Posted: 10/16/11 at 9:32pmI imagine for those backstage folks that Bernadette will take it well, or at least better than some others might in the same situation. Heads would roll if that were Barbra.
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#8Did Bernadette Take a Tumble Last Night?
Posted: 10/16/11 at 9:32pmI think it had more to do with the way Burstein threw the chair than anything stagehands did.
"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."-Stephen Sondheim
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#9Did Bernadette Take a Tumble Last Night?
Posted: 10/16/11 at 9:35pmPoor Bernadette. It gets better.
#10Did Bernadette Take a Tumble Last Night?
Posted: 10/16/11 at 10:53pmSince it was her, she prolly had a good laugh about it backstage.
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#11Did Bernadette Take a Tumble Last Night?
Posted: 10/16/11 at 11:28pm
Perhaps it's because she's 63, doesn't see very well anymore and just tripped?
Just trying to be realistic.
moljul
Broadway Star Joined: 5/28/03
#12Did Bernadette Take a Tumble Last Night?
Posted: 10/16/11 at 11:46pm
Ha! She's 63, hardly near death. I would guess her not seeing a chair which was apparently in the dark and perhaps in a place that it normally isn't had more to do with her not seeing it than her age. Human Beings, regardless of age, don't have the eyesight to see things in the dark. Now if she were Bernadette, the cat, well then at 63, she may have had a hard time seeing the chair. 
#13Did Bernadette Take a Tumble Last Night?
Posted: 10/17/11 at 2:36amThe worst thing is, it's not just in the dark, it's in the dark after having bright lights shining in your eyes for god-knows-how-long; which means that when those lights go out, as an actor, you literally cannot see ANYTHING.
#14Did Bernadette Take a Tumble Last Night?
Posted: 10/17/11 at 9:14amI'm sure there is a meeting happening somewhere. That kind of s@#t can't be happening, dark or not. Safety is safety.
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#15Did Bernadette Take a Tumble Last Night?
Posted: 10/17/11 at 9:47amYeah, 63 year-olds are in dire need of walkers, canes, handlers and mostly kinder and gentler comments on boards like this. I'd say Ms. Peters is the poster girl for living well is the best revenge. Anyone who saw her on The View clearly saw a woman at the top of her game.
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#16Did Bernadette Take a Tumble Last Night?
Posted: 10/17/11 at 9:58am
The OP must be mistaken, as most geriatrics don't know how to use Tumblr.
They also can't use Flickr.
They seem to be doing all right with Grindr, though.
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#17Did Bernadette Take a Tumble Last Night?
Posted: 10/17/11 at 10:10amOh no!!! It's Spiderman all over again! How many people have to be hurt before we TURN OFF THE DARK??!!
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moljul
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#18Did Bernadette Take a Tumble Last Night?
Posted: 10/17/11 at 2:44pm
Well she seems no worse for wear in these photos taken after the performance on Saturday night - and hardly geriatric! LOL
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#19Did Bernadette Take a Tumble Last Night?
Posted: 10/17/11 at 6:20pmawww Bernadette...was at the show yesterday and happy to say she was wonderful as always. And I love love loooove the photos with Debbie Reynolds!!
"I chose and my world was shaken--so what? The choice may have been mistaken, the choosing was not. You have to move on"
#20Did Bernadette Take a Tumble Last Night?
Posted: 10/18/11 at 6:56pm
They should put Debbie Reynolds in the show.
Maybe she can replace the miscast Elaine Paige who ruins I'm still here.
#21Did Bernadette Take a Tumble Last Night?
Posted: 10/18/11 at 8:11pmOk we need to get off Elaine Paige. She's there. She'll finish the run. Deal.
