An Evening with Bernadette Peters

Join us for a night of music with a Broadway legend to benefit the Playhouse!

Experience an evening with three-time Tony recipient, Golden Globe, Emmy, and Grammy nominee, Bernadette Peters as she performs live on the Playhouse stage! Throughout her illustrious career, Bernadette Peters has dazzled audiences and critics with her performances on stage, film and television, in concert, and on recordings.

Best known for her work on stage and one of Broadway’s most critically acclaimed performers, Bernadette just concluded a highly successful West End debut in the Cameron Mackintosh production of Old Friends, celebrating the life and work of Stephen Sondheim.

Bernadette has starred as Dolly Gallagher Levi in the hit musical, Hello, Dolly!. She also starred in City Center’s Encores! Production, A Bed and a Chair: A New York Love Affair featuring the music of Stephen Sondheim and orchestrations by Wynton Marsalis. Prior to that, she starred on Broadway in Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music and Follies.

Peters garnered both the Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for her performance in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Song and Dance. She also won a Tony Award for her performance in Annie Get Your Gun. She received Tony nominations for her outstanding performances in Sam Mendes’ critically acclaimed revival of Gypsy, in Neil Simon’s The Goodbye Girl, Stephen Sondheim’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Sunday in the Park with George, the Jerry Herman/Gower Champion ode to the movies, Mack and Mabel, and the Leonard Bernstein/Comden and Green musical On The Town. In addition to these honors, Peters earned a Drama Desk nomination for her unforgettable portrayal of the Witch in Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods.

Join Bernadette Peters, for a magical and inspiring evening of songs from the great music masters. She creates an intimate audience experience when she performs celebrated selections from Rodgers and Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Herman and other legends. Come and enjoy the incomparable Bernadette at the Playhouse for a one of a kind evening of spell-binding songs that are certain to touch your heart.

The Playhouse is a 501(c)(3) organization. All proceeds from this event will support the Playhouse; our work on stage; with schools; and throughout the community.

Join us after the show: All audience members are invited to meet and mingle together at a post-performance party!

 

Bernadette Peters and Westport Country Playhouse

Bernadette Peters first appeared at Westport Country Playhouse in 1966, in the musical Riverwind, starring Lisa Kirk and Robert Alda. In 2008, she returned to present a special tribute to Angela Lansbury at the Playhouse’s fall fundraising gala, Footlights and Film:  A Celebration of the Great Musicals from Stage and Screen. At the Playhouse’s 2011 annual gala, Playing Our Songs:  Celebrating 80 Years of Musical Theater, she was honored with the Playhouse’s Award for Distinguished Dedication and Service to the American Musical Theater.