It’s not all over for former Playboy models once they refrain from removing their clothes for photo shoots!

And the Christmas 1981 Playboy magazine cover girl Bernadette Peters is proving that as she takes on the role previously filled by Catherine Zeta Jones in New York City’s Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim’s musical A Little Night Music when it reopens on July 13 this year.

Portraying the part of Desiree came about as a result of a phone call the actress received from Sondheim, as she revealed on the Live with Regis show on Friday. Peters told viewers, “We talk every once in a while. Actually we were talking about something else actually and he said, ‘By the way’ and I said, ‘Well yes, that would be lovely.’”

The two-time Tony winner counts among her stage achievements, “Annie Get Your Gun,” “Sunday in the Park with George,” “Song and Dance,” “Into the Woods” and “Gypsy”.

A Little Night Music tells of the lives of several couples in Sweden at the turn of the previous century and contains the song “Send in the Clowns”, later made famous by several popular artists, such as Barbra Streisand and Frank Sinatra. The musical was later made into a 1977 movie starring Elizabeth Taylor.

Not someone instantly associated with beauty, glamour and a sexy body, but Barbra Streisand still managed to make it the cover of Hugh Hefner’s Playboy magazine in October 1977 following her success in the movie, A Star is Born which won Barbra her second Academy Award for Best Original Song as composer of the song “Evergreen”.

Barbra’s mother, Diana Ida had discouraged her daughter from pursuing a show business career, stating that she was not attractive enough, and encouraged her to learn to type instead. Clearly Streisand herself remained undeterred by the comments and her mother was proved wrong when her daughter graced the cover of the world’s most iconic men’s magazine, Playboy.

Along with her appearance as a Playboy model, Barbra also holds the accolade of being in a group of best selling artists which includes, The Beatles, Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson. She has won two Oscars, been nominated for numerous other awards and has appeared in several blockbuster movies such as, The Way We Were, with Robert Redford, with Kris Kristofferson in A Star is Born, The Prince of Tides, with Nick Nolte and Meet the Fockers with Dustin Hoffman and another Playboy model, Teri Polo.