Time Machine: A Dream That Never Came True…Dec. 13, 1976

Time Magazine
People
Dec. 13, 1976

As a singer who used to entertain the towel-clad clientele at Manhattan’s gay Continental Baths, Bette Midler can look forward to at least a dressier audience this January at the New York State Theater. Belting Bette is scheduled to appear there with the New York City Ballet in a new production of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht‘s The Seven Deadly Sins. Celebrated Choreographer George Balanchine chose her to play the lead role of the peripatetic showgirl Annie, a part created in 1933 by Weill’s widow Lotte Lenya. Why? “She has a good voice and red hair.” Says Bette: “It’s a dream come true. Next year, Firebird.” –