I've tried a couple of times to see Bernadette Peters in Canada!

I did manage to see her when she first opened the Annie Get Your Gun Revival in 1999 in New York. Then I had tickets to see her in Toronto (they were Gala tickets no less, where I would get to mingle with the star!) but she cancelled due to the whole SARS thing. Then she played Casino Rama in Orillia on my birthday (no less) but I was stuck in New York!

Well, according to this article in Playbill, Bernadette Peters will be coming to Ottawa April 27 as part of her extended concert tour in 2006. This might finally be the push we need to take a family vacation to Ottawa! However, I think it's more likely that I'll catch her May 1 at Avery Fisher Hall in New York...

Two-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters -- most recently on Broadway as Momma Rose in Gypsy -- has extended her current concert tour through Aug.
2006.

Peters launched her most recent tour Jan. 26, 2005, at the King Center for the Performing Arts in Melbourne, FL. Two tunes from Gypsy bookend her current tour: Peters opens with a new arrangement of Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim's "Let Me Entertain You" and closes with the show stopping "Rose's Turn."

Directed by Richard Jay-Alexander, the concert also includes Peters'
renditions of Sondheim's "Being Alive," "Children Will Listen" and "Not a Day Goes By"; Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Some Enchanted Evening" and "This Nearly Was Mine"; and Jerry Herman's "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:

Sept. 17, 2005 at the Norfolk Scope Arena in Norfolk, VA

Oct. 15, 2005 at the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts in Brookville, NY

Oct. 22, 2005 at the Zoellner Performing Arts Center in Bethlehem, PA

Nov. 5, 2005 at the Miller Auditorium in Kalamazoo, MI

Dec. 2, 2005 at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts in Storrs, CT

Feb. 18, 2006 at the Boettcher Concert Hall in Denver, CO

April 22, 2006 at the BJCC Concert Hall in Birmingham, AL

April 27, 2006 at the National Arts Center in Ottawa, ON

May 1, 2006 at Avery Fisher Hall in NY, NY

Aug. 25, 2006 at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts in Cerritos, CA

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