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Sweeney2
Swing Joined: 5/16/06
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#5Yank
Posted: 10/20/11 at 4:49pmI heard they cut that scene because Bobby Steggert refused to do it on stage!!
"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
steveshack
Leading Actor Joined: 8/21/04
#8Yank
Posted: 10/21/11 at 10:09am
I have to admit that I entered the show skeptically because 40s pastiche music sounds like a night in hell, but it thoroughly won me over. Especially Bobby Steggert, who never fails to be vulnerable and daring and honest and heartbreaking.
(heart thump heart thump)
Shack
#9Yank
Posted: 10/22/11 at 10:42amI also really liked it at the York, and thought Bobby Steggert and Ivan Hernandez's performances were wonderful. It definitely needed work at that point, but there was a lot of potential in it and I'd love to see it have a life in the future. I don't know if Broadway is necessarily the best place for it though, unless it's put up by one of the non-profits or does a limited run...I get the feeling they'd have a hard time trying to do a commercial run on Broadway.
