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Bernadette Peters Recalls the Moment She Fell in Love With Stephen Sondheim’s Work: ‘He’s Our Shakespeare’
The Broadway icon remembers her first encounters with Stephen Sondheim's work and shares the biggest lessons from her career.
In a “Stagecraft” episode recorded in front of a live audience on the Broadway Cruise, Peters recalled her earliest rehearsals for her first collaboration with Sondheim in “Sunday in the Park With George.” (Still to come: “Into the Woods,” “Follies,” “A Little Night Music” and more.) “But then,” she continued, “the second number we worked on was ‘Color and Light,’ where [co-star] Mandy Patinkin was painting and I was powdering, and I just fell in love with the show when we were rehearsing that song. Also on the new “Stagecraft,” Peters remembered her first brushes with fame; shared her pride in the long-running charity she co-founded, Broadway Barks; and offered a prediction on how Sondheim’s legacy will endure.
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