Not a day goes by that Bernadette Peters doesn’t miss her old friend Stephen Sondheim. “I do think of him every day,” she told me over lunch at Cafe Luxembourg. “I’m singing his music, you know. And I ...

Yes, she does Gypsy, but not Mama Rose, instead playing an utterly exhausted Miss Mazeppa, the stripper who bumps it with a trumpet. She pokes fun at the so-called “Bernadette Peters” take on ...