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Post by anthony40 on Jun 4, 2016 19:46:27 GMT
Am I am and the completely full house cheering on their feet the only ones who enjoyed this and the fact that we were witnessing Broadway Royalty in the flesh after an 18 year absence?
This lady is once classy act. She has sensuality and uses her sexuality to sell those songs.
So she's changed her repertoire? There was still the Sondheim songs and a Rodgers & Hammerstein suite of songs. And I remember thinking as she was singing that regardless of the age of these songs, musically and lyrically these still sound so great as fresh. Regardless of what others have posted on this topic, from where I was sitting she had the audience eating out of the palm of her hands.
I'm sure I've missed one or two songs and they're out of order (I'm going from memory here) but she sang the following: Let Me Entertain You, There Is Nothing Like A Dame, If I Loved You,something from State Fair, No One Is Alone, So Little To Be Sure Of, Fever, Children Will Listen, a song that she sings in Mozart in the Jungle, Johanna, In Buddy's Eve's, Loosing My Mind, Send In The Clowns, Move On, Being Alive, When You Wish Upon A Star and as an encore a song from one of her Broadway Barks books.
As unbelievable as this may seem (but it's the truth) during Move On and Being Alive I actually held the hand of the lady next to me, a complete stranger!
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jun 4, 2016 20:05:18 GMT
Anthony I hope she didn't mind!
So pleased you loved it. I know how much you were looking forward to seeing her.
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Post by anthony40 on Jun 4, 2016 20:23:13 GMT
Nah, it was all good.
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jun 4, 2016 21:12:02 GMT
She never sang if I loved you, it was "mr snow"
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Post by anthony40 on Jun 4, 2016 21:15:17 GMT
She never sang if I loved you, it was "mr snow" There you go. Told it was possible there may have been some errors as I was going from memory and you just proved that couldIleaveyou
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Post by theatreian on Jun 5, 2016 7:51:18 GMT
I am still looking forward to seeing her tonight despite previous comments!
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Post by anthony40 on Jun 5, 2016 8:41:51 GMT
And so you should. You're in for a treat.
Last night she sent a tweet saying Goodbye London, Hello Manchester with a photo of Royal Docks (?); truth be known I am not familiar with Manchester (must get there) so the photo could have been of anywhere in Manchester.
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Post by loureviews on Jun 5, 2016 8:43:02 GMT
And so you should. You're in for a treat. Last night she sent a tweet saying Goodbye London, Hello Manchester with a photo of Royal Docks (?); truth be known I am not familiar with Manchester (must get there) so the photo could have been of anywhere in Manchester. Just outside the city in Salford.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jun 5, 2016 20:41:49 GMT
Well that was one classy evening. First of all how bloody fabulous does she look for 68?
ive never seen her before but what a treat to see someone who completely knows what she's doing, so totally self assured in her delivery, her song choices and in having the audience in the palm of her hand. Loved the bits where she came off stage into the front stalls to get up close to the audience.
I thought she was fantastic and I'm so pleased I saw her.
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Post by crabtree on Jun 5, 2016 21:08:59 GMT
Relaxed, emotional, classy, sexy and simply the consummate performer.....what joy it was to witness her tonight. Highlights were In Buddy's Eyes, Losing my Mind and Send in the Clowns. so classy.
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Post by theatreian on Jun 6, 2016 15:42:32 GMT
Have to agree with the two previous posts. Ms Peters was indeed classy and performed with effortless ease a great selection of songs. You could have heard a pin drop almost the entire evening as the respectful audience lapped her performance up.
This was indeed the performance of a true star. A great night.
We waited at the stage door too with quite a crowd. She was gracious and did some signing en route to her taxi.
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Post by Nicholas on Jun 7, 2016 3:53:43 GMT
Embarrassing admission. When I was doing GCSEs/A-levels (possibly both, it all blurs into one) was when I got into Sondheim, listening obsessively to get through revision. Naturally, this involved listening to hours of Bernadette Peters, and blimey was I captivated. Especially high on all those teenage kicks and pesky hormones, hearing her emotional intelligence, her confidence in using silence as well as noise, her repertoire of those piercing Sondheim lyrics, her extraordinary unique voice – it meant so much back then. Since, Sondheim’s always been a part of my life, thank goodness, and intermittently I go back on these Bernadette binges. Way back when, when I was more idealistic and idiotic, I used to check her website almost daily to check whether she’d finally announce a surely imminent UK concert – I might not have had much money, but I would have paid all my pocket money for a front row ticket the very second she was coming over.
So it was with a certain self-satisfaction that I took my seat – back row of the balcony, furthest to the right, the worst seat in the house (and still forty quid!)! How times have changed, and yet still I obviously couldn’t have missed this for all the world. It developed a little late to be a childhood dream, but seeing Bernadette Peters was something of a youthful dream, one I’ve been looking forwards to practically for months but theoretically for years.
So obviously I’m not going to say a word against it, I loved every single second of the show. There she was, apparently 67 but clearly at least twenty years younger, that wonderful head of uncontrollable hair, that grace and poise and know-how of a great cabaret singer, that world of experience and frankly legendary status behind her... But even being objective I must have seen a different show to you, because she was a.ma.zing! A canny set list, not one single song showed any cracks in her voice (67! 67 and singing (and looking!) like that!), some songs were old favourites, some were leftfield treats, and some were genuine privileges to hear live. Hearing her sing, say, There Is Nothing Like A Dame was something rather fun, Mr Snow bizarre but beautiful (it’s a song my grandparents used to sing to me, so as if I wasn’t emotional enough to begin with...), It Might As Well Be Spring was quite unexpected and heartbreaking (never heard her sing that before, love that song, such a sensitive arrangement, moved me almost to tears), Johanna – Johanna! And with Let Me Entertain You, Fever, Come Up To My House, there rather seemed to be one thing on her mind, and as one of the two straight men at this Broadway concert, for me that was no bad thing... Of course, you then had Send In The Clowns, Losing My Mind, Children Will Listen, No-One Is Alone, Being Alive, and even back in my terrible seat, her voice still has that intimacy and connectivity that meant it felt, as it does in her recordings but with more poignancy when in person, that she was singing just for me – and you could tell everyone (well, almost everyone, clearly) felt just the same, she seemed to speak directly to us all. Absolute royalty, a true class act, an amazing unique talent, those songs can’t sound better than in her voice, and everyone there seemed truly to know how lucky we are to get the chance to see her as good as ever sing just for us.
And my favourite Sondheim song (and thus one of my favourite songs) is Move On – I’d argue for all his cleverness in other songs, it’s the kind of simplistic perfection only a genius can come up with. Lord knows, in the last however many years I wish I knew how many times I’ve heard her and Mandy Patinkin sing it, it will be well in the hundreds – AND SHE SANG IT! I’m in tears now just remembering, just realising what I saw, is that sad?
We can agree or disagree on how good she was. As I was walking over the bridge a party was complaining about her not doing Unexpected Song (which, ironically, is all she could do to make it unexpected). Personally I thought it was a set list that covered as many of the ‘Bernadette Peters’ songs as we needed and a good number of unexpected songs that were truly beautiful. I think we’d all agree she was good, and then some of us are willing to be more hyperbolic. But can we all agree, what a truly special night, what a real treat, what a legend, just wow!
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Post by demelza on Jun 9, 2016 22:39:06 GMT
I'm firmly in the camp if people who thoroughly enjoyed it! Yes, the set list was not quite what I expected but I thought that she put on a brilliant show! It's been almost a week now and I'm still not over it!
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Post by alece10 on Jun 10, 2016 10:54:31 GMT
Was it really 18 years ago she last did a UK concert? How time flies. I was at the RFH concert then, strange affair as there seemed to be a ban on women! Only men allowed...............
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2016 12:56:02 GMT
Was it really 18 years ago she last did a UK concert? How time flies. I was at the RFH concert then, strange affair as there seemed to be a ban on women! Only men allowed............... Were they the support act? Seriously... You weren't surprised were you?
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jun 10, 2016 22:17:25 GMT
There were plenty of women in the audience in Manchester.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2016 8:24:19 GMT
But did they wear beards? Or were they beards? Have you got a beard....?! Burly, is there something you're not telling us?
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Post by anthony40 on Jun 11, 2016 11:35:45 GMT
Makes me think of that beard song in Miss Atomic Bomb
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Post by alece10 on Jun 11, 2016 15:25:56 GMT
Was it really 18 years ago she last did a UK concert? How time flies. I was at the RFH concert then, strange affair as there seemed to be a ban on women! Only men allowed............... Were they the support act? Seriously... You weren't surprised were you? Of course not, exactly what I expected
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Post by couldileaveyou on Jan 14, 2019 18:51:39 GMT
UK stops of the tour announced: * London, Lyceum Theatre 10/06 * Edinburgh, Usher Hall 12/06 * Birmingham, Symphony Hall 14/06 * Manchester, Lowry Hotel 16/06 www.bernadettepeters.com
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Post by robertb213 on Jan 20, 2019 0:23:49 GMT
Additional date now showing - 18th June, Milton Keynes Theatre
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Post by macksennett on Jan 20, 2019 11:48:39 GMT
Fingers crossed they add Cardiff!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2019 12:05:54 GMT
I always feel cheated if someone announces a UK Tour and it doesn't include London, Manchester, Birmingham and then at least one date in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (or I'll settle for Ireland in general for the Irish fans!).
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Post by anthony40 on Jan 20, 2019 15:48:01 GMT
Yay! She's coming back. Needless to say Ant (that's me) will be there.
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Post by alece10 on Jan 20, 2019 17:51:52 GMT
What's her voice like these days? I seem to remember her doing the Oliviers 3 or 4 years ago and it was not good.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2019 18:08:46 GMT
What's her voice like these days? I seem to remember her doing the Oliviers 3 or 4 years ago and it was not good. Better in concert than shows where she cannot necessarily adjust keys as much. Overall a bit scratchier, limited in range, and a tad less reliable/predictable ... as one might expect for someone her age. She sounded good in Dolly.
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Post by LaLuPone on Jan 24, 2019 11:54:20 GMT
Decided to sign up for the presale for this and just have a glance at ticket prices and of course Birmingham which is my closest venue is the only link that the code is not working for. I have the worst luck with presales! EDIT: It's finally working!
I can't decide if I want to go to this or not; half of you seemed to be in heaven at her concerts last time and the other half seemed bitterly disappointed from what I can see!
Second edit: I'll be waiting and hoping for discounts for this I think!
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Post by robertb213 on Jan 24, 2019 14:00:08 GMT
If I go I'll do MK and get my favourite seats off to the side in the Circle, normally sold as restricted view but they won't be for a concert like this, and they're only £32.50. ATG cardholders can buy now, General Sale tomorrow.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jan 24, 2019 18:50:45 GMT
Just got mine for the Lowry.
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Post by macksennett on Jan 24, 2019 21:51:30 GMT
£127.50 for front two rows in Birmingham, then £62 for most of the rest of the stalls.
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