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Bernadette
Peters made her debut at age thirteen as Dainty June's
understudy in a national tour of Gypsy,
and first appeared on Broadway at age 19 in Johnny No-Trump
(1967), and a year later she garnered a Theatre World citation for George
M! (1968), opposite Joel Grey, and then won her first Drama Desk
Award for her performance in the Off-Broadway hit musical Dames at
Sea (1968). She received her first Tony Award nomination
for her performance as Hildy in a revival of Bernstein's On the
Town (1971), and was also nominated for her performance as silent
screen comedienne Mabel Normand in Jerry Herman's Mack & Mable
(1979), opposite Robert Preston's Mack Sennett. She
received her third Tony nomination for her performance as Dot/Marie in
Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Puliter Prize-winning musical Sunday
in the Park with George (1984), and as Emma in Andrew Lloyd
Webber's Song & Dance (1985), she won her first Tony
Award as Best Actress in a Musical. She then went on to create
the role of the Witch in Sondheim & Lapine's beloved Into the
Woods (1987) and then starred opposite Martin Short in Marvin
Hamlisch's musicalization of Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl
(1993). Peters received her second Tony in the title role of
a revival of Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun (1999), and
was nominated again for playing Rose in Gypsy (2003).
She is now considered by many to be the foremost interpreter of the
music of Stephen
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