Bernadette Peters concert

On Friday night we had a great time seeing Bernadette Peters sing with the San Francisco Symphony. (If I remember correctly, the first time I saw her in person was a concert she gave, also with the SFS, back when I was in high school.) After a short opening of pieces performed by just the SFS, she appeared — all sparkly and charming — and entertained us with several songs (often with interesting arrangements), mostly Broadway and a lot of Sondheim of course:

Let Me Entertain You (Gypsy)
No One Is Alone (Into the Woods)
There Is Nothing Like a Dame (South Pacific)
Fever
Mister Snow (Carousel)
Some Enchanted Evening (South Pacific)
Shenandoah
When You Wish upon a Star (Disney’s Pinocchio)
Johanna (Sweeney Todd)
Not a Day Goes By (Merrily We Roll Along)
You Could Drive a Person Crazy (Company)
With So Little To Be Sure Of (Anyone Can Whistle) / Children Will Listen (Into the Woods)
Being Alive (Company)
Kramer’s Song (lullaby written by Peters for her book Broadway Barks)

Good times. What a classy dame she is.

By the way, if any of San Francisco’s musical theater queens weren’t at this concert, they might have been seeing another great dame who was in town that night: Mitzi Gaynor. With Bruce Vilanch. At the Castro Theatre.