From Interview with Miriam DiNunzio of the Chicago Sun-Times in May 2001
Q. This is your first one-woman show. How did the project come about?
Bea. I met Billy Goldenberg, my musical director and composer, who's earned 32 Emmy nominations by the way, in 1981, when we were doing an evening benefit. He has since always wanted me to do a one-woman show but I kept putting it off because I said 'It's just too much hard work. Where do you begin?' So eventually we just started putting some musical numbers together and some bits and pieces of narrative. I can't say it's autobiographical, but I do tell a number of anecdotes that I think are amusing. We do a variety of music. I mean, I do Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changin'." Do you know it? I'm glad. They loved it in Minneapolis. [chuckles] And we do my very favorite song in the world, Kurt Weill's "It Never Was You." I heard Judy Garland sing it once, and it just knocked me out.
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From an October 2005 edition of the Portland Mercury
“... I didn't know what that was about at all. I was asked to be in it by the composer of that song
[“Goodnight, But Not Goodbye”]…but I had no idea it was even a part of the whole Star Wars thing…I just remember singing to a bunch of people with funny heads.”
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On the stardom she gained acting in "Maude" and "Golden Girls"
"Suddenly the whole country knew me. It was very odd and different," .........."Originally, I used to find myself running away from people and dodging them at restaurants. But I since have found that people who do come up and tell you they enjoy you and your performance, it's really very sweet."
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About Estelle Getty Upon her death in 2008
"Our mother-daughter relationship was one of the greatest comic duos ever, and I will miss her,"
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