The Goodbye Girl

…of Paula in Neil Simon’s The Goodbye Girl, opposite Martin Short. She won her second Tony in 1999 for Annie Get Your Gun (1999–2001). She starred in Sam Mendes’s widely acclaimed production of Sondheim’s Gypsy in 2003, garnering praise for her performance as matriarch Rose. Peters described this role as…

…musical for his performance in The Goodbye Girl (1993). However, he turned down a chance to play Leo Bloom in The Producers, Mel Brooks’s hit Broadway musical based on his earlier film. Matthew Broderick wound up with the part. Nonetheless, Short did get another chance, playing the timid accountant in…