NewsBernadette Peters Extends Concert Tour Through September 2007Broadway favorite Bernadette Peters, who will make a special guest appearance on "Law & Order: SVU" Nov. 28, has announced an initial list of concerts dates for 2007.
By
Andrew Gans
November 14, 2006
Bernadette Peters
Peters' legion of fans will now have the chance to catch the two-time Tony Award-winning actress perform at venues in Oregon, Utah, Florida, New York, Texas, North Carolina, Illinois, Ohio and New Mexico.
The concerts include Peters' renditions of two Gypsy tunes, "Let Me Entertain You" and "Rose's Turn," as well as songs by Stephen Sondheim ("Children Will Listen" and "Not a Day Goes By"), Rodgers and Hammerstein ("Some Enchanted Evening") and Jerry Herman ("Time Heals Everything"). Concertgoers can also expect tunes by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Irving Berlin as well as the Peggy Lee classic "Fever."
Tour dates currently announced follow:
Dec. 29, 2006 at the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen, CO
Jan. 24, 2007 at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Feb. 10 at the Craterian Ginger Rogers Theatre in Medford, OR
March 24 at the Eccles Center for the Performing Arts in Park City, UT
March 29 at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach, FL
March 31 at the Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples, FL
April 28 at the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts in Bronx, NY
May 5 at the Grand 1894 Opera House in Galveston, TX
May 12 at the Meymandi Concert Hall in Raleigh, NC
May 17 at the Paramount Arts Center in Aurora, IL
Aug. 18 at the Aronoff Center for the Arts in Cincinnati, OH
Sept. 1 at the Santa Fe Opera in Santa Fe, NM Bernadette Peters was last on Broadway in the acclaimed revival of Gypsy, for which she received a 2003 Tony Award nomination for her performance as Momma Rose in the Sam Mendes-directed production. She won her two Tonys for her performances in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Song & Dance and Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun, and she has also starred on Broadway in Mack & Mabel, On the Town, Sunday in the Park with George, The Goodbye Girl and the original production of Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods. Peters' newest recording, "Sondheim, Etc., Etc.—Bernadette Peters Live at Carnegie Hall (The Rest of It)," is available on the Angel Records label.
Advertisement
For more information visit www.bernadettepeters.com.
