Is Bernadette going on tonight?
Is Bernadette going on tonight?
Speed
Broadway Star Joined: 7/12/03
#1Is Bernadette going on tonight?
Posted: 4/17/18 at 3:43am
Good deals on stubhub seem too good to be true
#2Is Bernadette going on tonight?
Posted: 4/17/18 at 3:56am
Low demand, low prices. She hasn't missed a show in years and even if for some reason she was out tonight, it was not announced.
Updated On: 4/17/18 at 03:56 AM
#3Is Bernadette going on tonight?
Posted: 4/17/18 at 4:17am
The show is not sold out, tends to be quieter from Tuesday-Wednesday. So there is no resale market.
Bernadette hasn’t missed a performance since GYPSY. I wonder if she is scarred by the negative press she received from her absences and now basically does anything she can to be on, even if she probably shouldn’t be for health reasons (though I guess Follies is the only show she has done since that you can’t talk through the songs and still do a good job).
"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
Updated On: 4/17/18 at 04:17 AM
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#4Is Bernadette going on tonight?
Posted: 4/17/18 at 8:16am
What every one said above. For what its worth, could be that one broker was able to obtain lots of great tickets for tonight's performance when they first went on sale and it obviously turned out to be a bad call (look at the overflow of heavily discounted tickets for Disney's FROZEN -- the HAMILTON level of hysteria everyone was expecting didn't happen).
BroadwayRox3588
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/16
#5Is Bernadette going on tonight?
Posted: 4/17/18 at 8:58am
You can easily get a $39 ticket on Telecharge.
Huss417
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#6Is Bernadette going on tonight?
Posted: 4/17/18 at 9:08am
I must have missed them as all I see is $80 in the balcony.
***More seats are now showing.
"I hope your Fanny is bigger than my Peter."
Mary Martin to Ezio Pinza opening night of Fanny.
Updated On: 4/17/18 at 09:08 AM
#7Is Bernadette going on tonight?
Posted: 4/17/18 at 12:20pmPlease, God, she's on tonight, I'm seeing it again! Just checked StubHub-all I see as the cheapest right now is $79.95 in the last row of the Balcony.
#8Is Bernadette going on tonight?
Posted: 4/17/18 at 1:02pm
qolbinau said: "The show is not sold out, tends to be quieter from Tuesday-Wednesday. So there is no resale market.
Bernadette hasn’t missed a performance since GYPSY. I wonder if she is scarred by the negative press she received from her absences and now basically does anything she can to be on, even if she probably shouldn’t be for health reasons (though I guess Follies is the only show she has done since that you can’t talk through the songs and still do a good job)."
I've seen you reference her missing performances before, Qolbinau; as someone who wasn't paying attention to Broadway back then, what's the context here?
#9Is Bernadette going on tonight?
Posted: 4/17/18 at 1:18pm
Some reporting on it:
https://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city-theater/news/bernadette-peters-misses-fifth-performance-of-gyps_3491.html
http://www.playbill.com/article/everythings-coming-up-maureen-bernadette-peters-misses-may-5-gypsy-performance-com-113026
https://nypost.com/2003/05/07/sour-note-paters-missed-gypsy-dates-cause-havoc-at-box-office/
Riedel's article is particularly brutal (they apparently recently made up). Anyway, if Bernadette cares about maintaining her reputation (and all evidence suggests she does in my opinion - she is always nice, she never really opens up and she spends a fortune looking pristine) there is no way she would want a repeat of what happened during Gypsy, unless she was basically on her death bed (and now there have been hundreds of performances of A Little Night Music, Follies DC, Follies NYC and Hello Dolly without missing). I don't think any other peer could say the same at moment in their recent history.
"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
#10Is Bernadette going on tonight?
Posted: 4/17/18 at 1:47pm
It's worth noting that BP only missed about eight or nine performances total (not counting her scheduled one-week vacation) during her entire yearlong run in GYPSY -- the majority of those performances just happened to be right around opening night. Riedel was already trying to sell the narrative that she was miscast and struggling so he pounced on them as proof to support his theory.
"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."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Updated On: 4/17/18 at 01:47 PM
#11Is Bernadette going on tonight?
Posted: 4/17/18 at 2:31pm
qolbinau said: "Some reporting on it:
https://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city-theater/news/bernadette-peters-misses-fifth-performance-of-gyps_3491.html
http://www.playbill.com/article/everythings-coming-up-maureen-bernadette-peters-misses-may-5-gypsy-performance-com-113026
https://nypost.com/2003/05/07/sour-note-paters-missed-gypsy-dates-cause-havoc-at-box-office/
Riedel's article is particularly brutal (they apparently recently made up). Anyway, if Bernadette cares about maintaining her reputation (and all evidence suggests she does in my opinion - she is always nice, she never really opens up and she spends a fortune looking pristine) there is no way she would want a repeat of what happened during Gypsy, unless she was basically on her death bed (and now there have been hundreds of performances of A Little Night Music, Follies DC, Follies NYC and Hello Dolly without missing). I don't think any other peer could say the same at moment in their recent history."
Thanks for these! I can understand why these would be scarring for her, especially Riedel's column. Seems like it was overblown, though; people get ill and you can't really control that. Makes me think it's why she isn't doing the stage door this time around. If you missed a stretch of another show and got all of this negative press (even nasty press), you might want to minimize your exposure to any risk of illness.
#12Is Bernadette going on tonight?
Posted: 4/17/18 at 2:55pm
I remember reading or seeing an interview with her at the time (of Gyspy) where she attributed it to getting a manicure before the show opened and getting sick from someone at the place she got her nails done. then I had also heard people talk about her missing some performance for the Tony voters as an excuse why she didn't win the Tony that year.
DAME
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
#13Is Bernadette going on tonight?
Posted: 4/17/18 at 2:58pm
He was brutal to Donna Murphy as well during wonderful town .
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#14Is Bernadette going on tonight?
Posted: 4/18/18 at 12:38am
Well, Ms. Peters was there tonight, Tuesday! So, this thread was much ado about nothing! She was in fine voice and was lovely in the role. While I'm here, I do so miss Mr. David Hyde Pierce. Mr. Garber is fine but has none of the humor Pierce brought to this role that is usually kind of thankless. Mr. Fontana was fine as Cornelius. Nice voice and sweet but I miss Gavin Creel. Mr. Stemp is charming as Barnaby. Dancing goes without saying but I miss Taylor Trensch. Trensch has a unique comic flair that's missing now. Ms. Griggs is really finding her stride. She's very funny in the role of Minnie. Kate Baldwin is still perfect after all this time. Paging Jennifer Simard. If she was a bit over the top as Ernestina, I'll still take her over her replacement Alli Mauzey. I'm not familiar with Ms. Mauzey. Maybe she'll find the part later on but right now it looked like she was trying to do Simard's stuff but missed the mark. Nice to see so many old faces still in the Ensemble. The show still casts its spell on audiences.
Updated On: 4/18/18 at 12:38 AM
#15Is Bernadette going on tonight?
Posted: 4/18/18 at 12:56am
EthelMae said: "Well, Ms. Peters was there tonight, Tuesday! So, this thread was much ado about nothing!"
It took you this long to sort that out?
Speed
Broadway Star Joined: 7/12/03
#16Is Bernadette going on tonight?
Posted: 4/18/18 at 5:12am
EthelMae said: "Please, God, she's on tonight, I'm seeing it again! Just checked StubHub-all I see as the cheapest right now is $79.95 in the last row of the Balcony."
I got 11th row dead center orchestra for $100. Obviously I had already bought them before you checked. She was on for the show. Was great. And are you ready for this? The person next to us waited til the last minute and got the ticket for $55.
UncleCharlie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/26/16
#17Is Bernadette going on tonight?
Posted: 4/18/18 at 5:29am
EthelMae said: "Well, Ms. Peters was there tonight, Tuesday! So, this thread was much ado about nothing!."
Thank God. Another crisis narrowly averted!
#18Is Bernadette going on tonight?
Posted: 4/18/18 at 1:57pm
As the thread is very open with its unqualified use of "tonight," can someone post every day whether she went on?
#19Is Bernadette going on tonight?
Posted: 4/18/18 at 5:17pm
I wonder if she is scarred by the negative press she received from her absences and now basically does anything she can to be on
I highly doubt she is only ploughing on because of some bad press from 15 years ago that few people remember. What was her record like before Gypsy? Isn't it far more likely that those absences were an anomaly, she had good reason to be out, but now normal service has resumed? She's there every night because she loves her job and loves her audiences. That's all there is to it.
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JBC3
Broadway Star Joined: 4/9/17
#20Is Bernadette going on tonight?
Posted: 4/18/18 at 8:46pmthis thread is certainly going on (and on) tonight
