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Bernadette Peters on Losing Her Mind in the New Movie Coming Up Roses and Her Thank-You Note to Sondheim by Kathy Henderson

Bernadette Peters was nominated for a Tony as Gypsy’s Rose and drove her TV daughter Megan Hilty nuts in Smash, but neither of those diva turns compares to the mayhem she causes in the indie film Coming Up Roses. Peters plays Diane, a former summer stock actress whose mental illness wreaks havoc on her daughters in mid-1980s New Hampshire. In a performance devoid of vanity, Peters veers between suicide attempts…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00PM on November 8, 2012

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