Bernadette Peters (born Bernadette Lazzara; February 28, 1948) is an American actress, singer and children's book author from Ozone Park, Queens, New York. Over the course of a career that has spanned five decades, she has starred in musical theatre, films and television, as well as performing in solo concerts and recordings. She is one of the most critically acclaimed Broadway performers, having received nominations for seven Tony Awards, winning two, and nine Drama Desk Awards, winning three. Four of the Broadway cast albums on which she has starred have won Grammy Awards.
Regarded by many as the foremost interpreter of the works of Stephen Sondheim, Peters is particularly noted for her roles on the Broadway stage, including Mack and Mabel, Sunday in the Park with George, Song and Dance, Into the Woods and Annie Get Your Gun.
Peters first performed on the stage as a child and then a teenage actor in the 1960s, and in film and television in the 1970s. She was praised for this early work and for appearances on The Muppet Show, The Carol Burnett Show and in other television work, and for her roles in films like Silent Movie, The Jerk, Pennies from Heaven and Annie. In the 1980s, she returned to the theatre, where she became one of the best-known Broadway stars over the next three decades. She also has recorded six solo albums and several singles, as well as many cast albums, and performs regularly in her own solo concert act. Peters also continues to act in films and on television, where she has been nominated for three Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards, winning once.
Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26, 1933) is an American actress, comedian, singer, dancer and writer. Burnett started her career in New York. After becoming a hit on Broadway, she made her television debut. After successful appearances on The Garry Moore Show, Burnett moved to Los Angeles and began an eleven-year run on The Carol Burnett Show which was aired on CBS television from 1967 to 1978. With roots in vaudeville, The Carol Burnett Show was a variety show which combined comedy sketches, song, and dance. The comedy sketches included film parodies and character pieces. Burnett created many characters during the show's television run.
Burnett was born in San Antonio, Texas, the daughter of Ina Louise (née Creighton), a publicity writer for movie studios, and Joseph Thomas Burnett, a movie theater manager. Both of her parents suffered from alcoholism, and at a young age she was left with her grandmother, Mabel Eudora White. Her parents divorced in the late 1930s, and Burnett and her grandmother moved to an apartment near her mother’s in an impoverished area of Hollywood. There, they stayed in a boarding house with her younger half-sister Chrissy.
Joan Alexandra Molinsky (born June 8, 1933), better known by her stage name Joan Rivers, is an American television personality, comedian, and actress. She is known for her brash manner; her loud, raspy voice with a heavy New York accent; and her numerous cosmetic surgeries. Rivers' comic style relies heavily on her ability to poke fun at herself and other Hollywood celebrities.
Joan Rivers was born Joan Alexandra Molinsky in Brooklyn, a borough of New York City, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants Beatrice (née Grushman; January 6, 1906 – October 1975) and Meyer C. Molinsky (December 7, 1900 – January 1985). She was raised in Brooklyn, New York, and her family later moved to Larchmont, in Westchester County, New York. She attended Connecticut College between 1950 and 1952 and graduated from Barnard College in 1954 with a bachelor-of-arts degree in English literature and anthropology. Before entering show business, Rivers worked at various jobs such as a tour guide at Rockefeller Center, a writer/proofreader at an advertising agency and as a fashion consultant at Bond Clothing Stores. During this period, the agent Tony Rivers advised her to change her name, so she chose Joan Rivers as her stage name.
Stephen Joshua Sondheim ( /ˈsɒnd.haɪm/) (born March 22, 1930) is an American composer and lyricist known for his contributions to musical theatre. He is the winner of an Academy Award, eight Tony Awards (more than any other composer) including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize and the Laurence Olivier Award. Described by Frank Rich of the New York Times as "the greatest, and perhaps best-known artist working in musical theatre", his most famous works include (as composer/lyricist) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Woods. He also wrote the lyrics for West Side Story and Gypsy.
Sondheim has also written material for movies, including the 1981 Warren Beatty film Reds, contributing the song "Goodbye For Now". He also wrote five songs for the 1990 movie Dick Tracy, including "Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)", which won the Academy Award for Best Song.
Samuel Cornelius Phillips (January 5, 1923 – July 30, 2003), better known as Sam Phillips, was an American businessman, record executive, record producer and DJ who played an important role in the emergence of rock and roll as the major form of popular music in the 1950s. He was a producer, label owner, and talent scout throughout the '40s and '50s. He most notably founded Sun Studios and Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee. Through Sun, Phillips discovered such recording talent as Howlin' Wolf, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash. The height of his success culminated in his launching of Elvis Presley's career in 1954. He is also associated with several other noteworthy rhythm and blues and rock and roll stars of the period. Phillips sold Sun in 1969. He was an early investor in the Holiday Inn chain of hotels.
Phillips was the youngest of eight children, born on a farm near Florence, Alabama to poor tenant farmers. As a child he picked cotton in the fields with his parents alongside black laborers. The experience of the workers singing in the fields left a big impression on the young Phillips. Travelling through Memphis with his family in 1939 on the way to see a preacher in Dallas, he slipped off to look at Beale Street, at the time the heart of the city's music scene. "I just fell totally in love," he later recalled.
This ninny of a puppet was available
The second that he called
And all he had to do was yell, "Hey, Mabel"
And this dumb hash slinger crawled
For seven lousy years, I've watched him swear
And shove and shout
"With you or without you"
Well, it's gonna be without
I gotta give my life some sparkle and fizz
And think a thought that isn't wrapped up in his
The place that I consider paradise is
Wherever he ain't, wherever he ain't
No more to wither when he's grouchy and gruff
No more to listen to him, bellow and bluff
Tomorrow morning I'll be struttin' my stuff
Wherever he ain't, wherever he ain't
Enough of being bullied and bossed
Ta-ta, Auf Wiedersehn and get lost
I walk behind him like a meek little lamb
And had my fill of his not giving a damn
I'll go to Sydney or Ceylon or Siam
Wherever he ain't and wherever he ain't
It's time for little Nell to rebel
If he's at Heaven, I'll go to Hell
My little love nest was a terrible trap
With me behaving like a simpering sap
And so I'm looking for a spot on the map
If he's going south, I'm going north
If he's going back, I'm going forth
Time heals everything
Tuesday, Thursday
Time heals everything
April, August
If I'm patient the break will mend
And one fine morning the hurt will end
So make the moments fly
Autumn, winter
I'll forget you by
Next year, some year
Though it's hell that I'm going through
Some Tuesday, Thursday, April, August
Autumn, winter, next year, some year
Time heals everything, time heals everything
But loving you
Though it's hell that I'm going through
Some Tuesday, Thursday, April, August
Autumn, winter, next year, some year
Time heals everything, time heals everything
ANNIE
Rumors fly and you don't know where to start
'Specially when it concerns a person's heart
I've heard tales that could set my heart a glow
Wish I knew if the things i heard are so.
They say that falling in love is wonderful
It's wonderful, so they say
And with a moon up above it's wonderful
It's wonderful, so they tell me
I can't recall who said it
I know I've never read it
I only know they tell me that love is grand
The thing that's known as romance is wonderful
Wonderful, In ev'ry way,
So they say.
FRANK
Rumors fly and they often leave a doubt
But you've come to thte right place to find out
Ev'rything that you've heard is really so
I've been there once or twice and I should know
You'll find that falling in love is wonderful
It's wonderful, so they say
And with a moon up above, it's wonderful
It's wonderful, as they tell you
BOTH
You leave your house some morning
And without any warning
You're stopping people shouting that love is grand
To hold a man in your arms is wonderful
Wonderful, in ev'ry way
No one here to guide you
Now you're on your own
Only me beside you
Still your not alone
No one is alone
Truley
No one is alone
Sometimes people leave you
Half-way through the wood
Others may decieve you
You decide whats good
You decide alone
But no one is alone
People make mistakes
Father's, Mother's
People make mistakes
Holding to their own
Thinking they're alone
Honor their mistakes
Everybody makes
One another's terrible mistakes
Witches can be right
Giants can be good
You decide whats right
You decide whats good
Just remember
Someone is on your side
Someone else is not
Well we're seeing our side
Maybe we forgot
They are not alone
Cause no one is alone
Hard to see the light now
Just don't let it go
Things will come out right now
We can make it so
Someone is on your side
I am doin' fine now
I never cry now
In fact I feel no pain at all
You sound the same now
How's? What's her name now?
I am just surprised that you would call
It took a long time, long time
But I was only wounded by your love
I was only wounded
I can't fall in love again
I am all in place now
A quieter space now
There's not so many highs or lows
No more confusion
No brand illusion
I just sat back and watch them go
It took a long time, a long time
But I was only wounded by your love
I was only wounded
I can't fall in love again
I don't think that we can be just friends
Baby, this is how our love began
'Cause you'll only shoot me dead again
I was only wounded by your love
I was only wounded
I can't fall in love again
I'm doin' fine now
I never cry now
Not a day goes by
Not a single day
But you're somewhere a part of my life
And it looks like you'll stay
As the days go by
I keep thinking when does it end
Where's the day I'll have started forgetting
But I just go on thinking and sweating
And cursing and crying
And turning and reaching
And waking and dying
And no, not a day goes by
Not a blessed day
But you're still somehow part of my life
And you won't go away
So there's hell to pay
And until I die
I'll die day after day after day
After day
After day after day after day
Til the days go by
Til the days go by
This is the world I meant
Couldn't you listen?
Couldn't you stay content?
Safe behind walls, as I could not
Now you know what's out there in the world
No one can prepare you for the world, even I
How could I, who loved you as you were
How could I have shielded you from her or them?
No matter what you say
Children won't listen
No matter what you know
Children refuse to learn
Guide them along the way
Still they won't listen
Children can only grow
From something you love
I held up pretty well
The first few days I even tried to dying
To get my mind off you
Friends said I look like hell
They said they snapped like that
If they'd been through
What I'd been through
They'd simply fall apart
Well, I am about to start
I never thought I'd break
I thought I could hang on till all the hurt
Had all run out
And I'd be fine
I guess I am not that kind
Not the kind to fall apart
When lovers go away until today
It finally hit me, you're gone
And now I am barely hangin' on
I never thought I'd break
I never thought you'd make me miss your face
And make me ache to hear your voice
But now I have no choice
I've always had the answer
You were my one mistake
Until the day we broke up
I never thought I'd break
I never thought I'd break
I never thought you'd make me miss your face
And make me ache to hear your voice
But now I have no choice
I've always had the answers
You were my one mistake
Until the day I woke up
I thought I'd do what I could judge
Until that day we broke up
I got big red lips
I got big brown eyes
If i treat him right,
its a big suprise
i never do anything that i said i would,
i make him feel good
i make him feel good
he says come here baby i say no
he says drop me here i say
i make him feel good
i make him feel good
when angels look down from above
they see all of our special love
i make him do things that no one could
i make him feel good
i make him feel good
if ur feeling down and blue
and ur girlfriend treats you bad too
just remember what shes bound to do,
she'll make you feel good,
she'll make you feel good
i got big red lips i got big brown eyes
if i treat him right, its a big surprise
i never do anything that i said i would
i make him feel good
i make him feel good
(hmming)
i make him feel good
if your feeling down and blue
just remember what shes bound to do
she'll make you feel good
Anything you could do, I could do better
I can do anything better than you!
No you can't!
Yes I can!
No you can't!
Yes I can!
No you can't!
Yes I can!
Yes I can!
Anything you can be, I can be greater
Sooner or later I'm greater than you!
No you're not!
Yes I am!
No you're not!
Yes I am!
No you're not!
Yes I am!
Yes I am!
I can shoot a partridge
with a single cartridge
I can get a sparrow
With a bow and arrow
I can live on bread and cheese
and only on that?
so can a rat!
I can do most anything!
Can you bake a pie?
No!!
Neither Can I!
Any thing you can sing, I can sing Louder
I can sing anythin louder than you!
No you can't!
Yes I can!
No you can't!
Yes I can!
No you can't!
Yes I can!
No you can't!
Yes I can!
Yes I can!
Yes I can!
Got no diamond, got no pearl,
Still I think I'm a lucky girl.
I've got the sun in the morning
And the moon at night.
Got no mansion, got no yacht,
Still I'm happy with what I got.
I've got the sun in the morning
And the moon at night
Sunshine gives me a lovely day,
Moonlight gives me the Milky Way.
Got no checkbooks, got no banks,
Still, I'd like to express my thanks.
I've got the sun in the morning
And the moon at night.
And with the sun in the morning
And the moon in the evening
I'm alright.
Got no butler, got no maid.
Still I think I've been overpaid,
I've got the sun in the morning
And the moon at night.
Got no silver, got no gold,
What you've got can't be bought or sold.
I've got the sun in the morning
And the moon at night.
Sunshine gives me a lovely day,
Moonlight gives me the Milky Way.
Got no heirlooms for my kin,
Made no will but when I cash in
I'll leave the sun in the morning
And the moon at night.
And with the sun in the morning
And the moon in the evening
I'm alright.
CHORUS:
Got no mansion, got no yacht,
Still I'm happy with what I got.
I've got the sun in the morning
And the moon at night.
Sunshine gives me a lovely day,
Moonlight gives me the Milky Way.
ANNIE OAKLEY:
Got no checkbooks, got no banks,
Still, I'd like to express my thanks
CHORUS:
We've got the sun in the morning
And the moon at night.
ANNIE OAKLEY:
And with the sun in the morning
And the moon in the evening
Annie:
Don't ask me just how it happened
I wish I knew,
I can't believe that it's happened
And still it's true
I got lost in his arms,and I had to stay,
It was dark in his arms,and I lost my way
From the dark came a voice,and it seem to say:
"There you go,there you go."
How I felt as I fell I just can't recall
But his arms held me fast and it broke the fall
And I said to my heart
As it foolishly kept jumping all around
"I got lost,but look what I found!"
I got lost in his arms and I had to stay
It was dark in his arms and I lost my way
From the dark came a voice,and it seem to say:
"There you go,there you go."
How I felt as I fell I just can't recall,
But his arms held me fast and it broke the fall,
And I said to my heart.
As it foolishly kept jumping around,
he's got a way about him
I don't know what it is
But I know that I can't live without him
he's got a way of pleasin'
I don't know why it is
But there doesn't have to be a reason anyway
he's got a smile that heals me
I don't know what it is
But I have to laugh when he reveals me
he's got a way of talkin'
I don't know why it is
But it lifts me up when we are walkin' anywhere
he comes to me when I'm feelin' down
Inspires me without a sound
he touches me and I get turned around
he's got a way of showin'
How I make him feel
And I find the strength to keep on goin'
he's got a light around him
And everywhere he goes
A million dreams of love surround him everywhere
he comes to me when I'm feelin' down
Inspires me without a sound
he touches me
I get turned around
he's got a smile that heals me
I don't know why it is
But I have to laugh when he reveals me
he's got a way about him
I don't know what it is
Gee whiz, look at his eyes
Gee whiz, how they hypnotize
He's got everything, a girl could want
Man, oh, man, what a prize, ooh
Gee whiz, he's all the joy
Gee whiz, I could find in a boy
He's awful nice, it's paradise
I hope that I'm his decoy
Heaven up above knows how much
I love that fellow so
Angels sing of the love that he brings
I hope our love will grow and grow
Oh, gee whiz I love that guy
Gee whiz my, my, oh my
There are things we could do
I could say I love you
There are things we could do
I could say I love you
But all I can say is
"This isn't about love, its about marriage! Have I thought you girls nothing!"
Stepmother (Bernadette):
Falling in love with love is falling for make believe
Falling in love with love is playing a fool
Caring too much is such a juvenile fancy
Learning to trust is just for children in school
I fell in love with love one night when the moon was full
I wasn't wise with eyes unable to see
I fell in love with love with love everlasting
But love fell out with me
Stepsisters:
Falling in love with love is falling for make believe
Falling in love with love is playing a fool
Stepmother (Bernadette):
Caring too much is such a juvenile fancy
Stepmother (Bernadetter) & Stepsisters:
Learning to trust is just for children in school
Stepmother (Bernadette):
I fell in love with love one night when the moon was full
I wasn't wise with eyes unable to see
Stepmother (Bernadette): Stepsisters:
I fell in love with love with love everlasting She fell in love with love with love everlasting
Stepmother (Bernadette):
There goes the guy who once made me hold my head so high
There goes the guy that built my hopes and dreams up to the sky
Excuse me, oh, excuse me for staring
But this girl's still carrying a torch
There goes the guy who's still my only reason to be living
He left me as a fact but if he ever want it back I'll be forgiving
Hurting me, forcing me
When you walk into a room
You're beauty steals my breath away
When you look into my eyes
I find it hard to find the words to say
Wanna run away and hide
I just got to let you know
Feel so tangled up inside
I should've never let you go
Anyone can make mistakes
And we both have made our share
But a life without your love
Is a life too hard to bear
I don't care who's right or wrong
Only know I love you so
Why did I have to write this song
I should've never let you go
Why in all the wide wide world
Have I run into you here
Wish I could disappear
I'll never understand
I'll never understand
Why I even give a damn
When you walk into a room
You know I stand on shaky ground
I built so many walls around me
Now the walls are tumbling down
You're the kind I can't forget
Let the tears begin to flow
I have only one regret
I should've never let you go
I should've never let you go
I should've never let you go
I should've never let you go
I should've never let you go
Darling, I'm so blue without you
I think about you the [Incomprehensible]
When you ask me if I'm lonely
Then I have only this to say
You'll never know just how much I miss you
You'll never know just how much I care
And if I tried, I still couldn't hide
My love for you, you ought to know
For haven't I told you so a million or more times?
You went away and my heart went with you
I speak your name in my every prayer
If there is some other way to prove that I love you
I swear, I don't know how
If I were the only girl in the world
And you were the only boy
Nothing else would matter in the world today
We could go on loving in the same old way
A Garden of Eden, hmm, just made for two
With nothing to harm our joy
I would say such wonderful things to you
There would be such wonderful things to do
If were the only girl in the world
And you were the only boy
...If I were the only girl...
Nothing else would matter in the world today
We could go on loving in the same sweet way
A Garden of Eden, hmm, just made for two
With nothing to change our joy
I would say such wonderful things to you
There would be such beautiful things to do
If were the only girl in the world
Smug little men with a smug little schemes
They forgot one thing
The play isn't over by a long shot yet
There are heroes in the world
Prince's and heroes in the world
And one of them will save us
We can see, we can see
There won't be trumpets or bolts of fire
To say he's coming
No Roman candles, no angels choir
No sound of distant drumming
He may not be the Cavalcade
Tall and graceful, fair and strong
Doesn't matters just as long as
He comes on home
But not with trumpets or lightning flashing
Or shining armor
It maybe daring, he maybe dashing
Or maybe he's a farmer
We can wait, watch another day
He has lots of hills to climb
And the hero doesn't come
Till the nick of time
The vote for trumpets or whistles tooting
That guarantee him
There won't be trumpets, but sure as shooting
You'll know him when you see him
Don't know when, don't know where
And I can't even say but I care
All I know is some Meridian turn
Is having some flair
You won't need trumpets
There are no trumpets
Anything you could do, I could do better
I can do anything better than you!
No you can't!
Yes I can!
No you can't!
Yes I can!
No you can't!
Yes I can!
Yes I can!
Anything you can be, I can be greater
Sooner or later I'm greater than you!
No you're not!
Yes I am!
No you're not!
Yes I am!
No you're not!
Yes I am!
Yes I am!
I can shoot a partridge
with a single cartridge
I can get a sparrow
With a bow and arrow
I can live on bread and cheese
and only on that?
so can a rat!
I can do most anything!
Can you bake a pie?
No!!
Neither Can I!
Any thing you can sing, I can sing Louder
I can sing anythin louder than you!
No you can't!
Yes I can!
No you can't!
Yes I can!
No you can't!
Yes I can!
No you can't!
Yes I can!
Yes I can!
Yes I can!