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Bernadette Peters Presented by The North Coast Men’s Chorus
Bernadette Peters Presented by The North Coast Men’s Chorus
01/30/2008 (10:24 AM)
January 29th, 2008
Bernadette Peters Presented by The North Coast Men’s Chorus
Cleveland, Ohio – Miss Bernadette Peters, Broadway star extraordinaire, presented by The North Coast Men’s Chorus in a one-night only concert Friday, March 28th 8:00 p.m. in the Allen Theater Playhouse Square, 1501 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44115. Miss Peters and NCMC will be accompanied by the renowned Cleveland Pops Orchestra, Carl Topilow founder.
Throughout her illustrious career, Tony Award-winning actress Bernadette Peters has dazzled audiences and critics with her performances on stage and television, in concert, and on recordings. In 2003, she received her seventh Tony Award nomination for her electrifying portrayal of Momma Rose in Sam Mendes’ record-breaking Broadway revival of Gypsy, and her brilliant performance was captured on the Grammy award-winning Gypsy cast recording. Peters’ latest Angel Records CD, Sondheim, Etc., Etc.: Bernadette Peters Live at Carnegie Hall (The Rest of It), features never-before-released highlights from her historic 1996 solo debut at Carnegie Hall.
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In June 1999, Peters earned her second Tony Award, her third Drama Desk Award, and an Outer Critics Circle Award for her show stopping portrayal of Annie Oakley in one of Broadway’s most popular musicals, the smash Tony Award-winning hit Broadway revival of Annie Get Your Gun. In 1996, she made her highly-anticipated solo debut at Carnegie Hall in an exclusive concert benefiting Gay Men’s Health Crisis – a performance she repeated in Bernadette Peters in Concert, her London solo debut at Royal Festival Hall, which later was telecast on PBS.
She garnered the 1989 Tony, Drama Desk, and Drama League Awards for her electrifying performance in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Song and Dance; earned Tony nominations for her work in Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George, Neil Simon’s The Goodbye Girl, Jerry Herman’s Mack and Mabel, and Leonard Bernstein’s On the Town; and earned a Drama Desk Award nomination for her portrayal of the Witch in Sondheim’s Into the Woods.
In addition to numerous original Broadway cast recordings, Peters has recorded six solo albums: Sondheim, Etc., Etc.: Bernadette Peters Live at Carnegie Hall (The Rest of It); Bernadette Peters Loves Rodgers & Hammerstein (Grammy Nomination); Sondheim Etc.: Bernadette Peters Live At Carnegie Hall (Grammy Nomination); I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight (Grammy Nomination); Bernadette Peters; and Now Playing.
Peters serves on the Board of Directors for Manhattan Theater Club and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Peters’ “pet project” is Broadway Barks, an annual, star-studded dog adoption event, she founded with friend Mary Tyler Moore, benefiting animal shelters throughout New York.
Tickets for this unique event are now on sale and start at $10.00. Go to the Playhouse Square Ticket Office or www.playhousesquare.org or call (216) 241-6000 or toll-free at 1-800-766-6048.
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