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by Phil Roura and Tom Poster<\/p>\n

Peggy Lee looked at her pretty blond granddaughter, Holly, and smiled: “Someday you\u2019ll produce my life story on Broadway.”<\/p>\n

Peggy wasn\u2019t kidding. Someday the Peggy Lee story will be back on Broadway.<\/p>\n

The indomitable Miss Peggy, the ultimate song stylist, never got over the way her autobiography was bounced off Broadway.<\/p>\n

“It took me six years of hard work and we had 18 performances and 18 standing ovations and then we got one night\u2019s notice and it was over! Six years down the drain,” said Peg, as she visited the People Page.<\/p>\n

“My friends tell me they were depressed by the story of my life. Hell, if they were depressed, imagine how I felt. I lived that story!” Snapping her famous fingers in her famous style, Peg says: Let\u2019s look ahead.<\/p>\n

“Sure, I want my story back on Broadway, but that\u2019s a long way off and Holly will produce it,” she smiled.<\/p>\n

For now, she has four weeks at the Ballroom with her new act. It\u2019s a two-hour show, called simply Peggy Lee.<\/p>\n

“That\u2019s to distinguish it from the Broadway show Peg, so people will know they\u2019re going to see something fresh,” she said<\/p>\n

They loved it in Japan, West Germany and London and now her fans will see her here. Of course, she\u2019ll do “Why Don\u2019t You Do Right?” That was her first smash hit and her mind raced back to World War II for a moment<\/p>\n

My brother, Leonard, used to tell me how the soldiers listened to it played over and over as they headed for the second wave at Normandy, how soldiers tried to take the record into battle with them,” she recalled<\/p>\n

“That song brings back all kinds of memory and many war stories. Robert Preston used to listen to it overseas in the Air Force. He came to see me once after the war just to tell me how much he liked it.”<\/p>\n

But what about Broadway? “Oh, sure, we\u2019ll be back real soon,” Peg laughed. “We\u2019ll drive up and down.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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