I am one year older than her. She is one of the reasons I still practice singing every week. And Sir Paul. & Tom Jones. & Englebert. Humperdinck. But, mostly HER.
Remembering that splendid performance of Bernadette Peters from "A Musical Toast: The Stars Shine on Public Television", which first ever aired as part of the conclusion of PBS' Festival '87 Pledge Campaign for many PBS stations including KPBS in San Diego, Circa Sunday March 22, 1987!! Sadly at that time, KPBS felt short VERY BADLY of its $450,000 goal and took only $370,208 for Festival '87, a sharp drop of the Festival '86(March 1986) take of $499,325!! TV Worth Watching and TV Worth Paying For!!!
The mark of a TRUE singer: the ability to sing a medley of songs and HOLD THE ATTENTION OF AN AUDIENCE. Ethel Merman could do it, so could Dolores Gray. And Bernadette Peters belongs in this VERY select group of consummate stage performers who are the REAL DEAL.
Good renditon of Lonely Town by Bernadette Peters but not comparable to Sinatra rendition which is on another level, just sublime.Barbara Cook does a beautiful rendition of Some Other Time.
This was from a 1987 special called "A Musical Toast" which was produced as a pledge drive for Public TV. It was hosted by Itzhak Perlman and featured a whole bunch of classical performers. Bernadette was one of the very few "mainstream" people on the show (she was between "Song & Dance" and "Into the Woods" at the time). I believe this was taped in one of the ballrooms at the Marriott Marquis Hotel.
That orchestration behind _Some Other Time_ mostly ruined one of--if not THE--greatest Broadway song ever. Peters did alright, unfortunately too drowned out by extraneous drums and brass.
