Shirley Verrett

Also credited on1 work

Carousel

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In the literature2 passages

• SHIRLEY VERRETT dramatic/mezzo-soprano, performed at the Metropolitan Opera, the San Francisco Opera, La Scala, and Covent Garden. She made her Broadway debut as Nettie Fowler in the 1994 revival of Carousel.It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer
• SHIRLEY VERRETT: You don’t know what work is until you’ve been on Broadway: exercising, yoga classes, keeping the body in shape. I rehearsed more for Carousel than I ever did in the opera; we had rehearsals every day. Nicholas Hytner kept saying, “Repetition, repetition. Seventy-five times a day. Repeat, repeat, until you can recite it wh…It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer

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