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Broadway Legend Defined!,
By Stephanie Patterson "Mezzolady" (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews
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My opinion still holds - Barbara Cook's voice only improves with age. This album is a must-have and a true delight because we get to hear Ms. Cook as the original Cunegonde, who worked with Leonard Bernstein as he was composing the famous "Glitter and Be Gay." We hear her lovely coloraturia mellow over the years into the warm, rich, pure sound of today. Best yet, we are treated to simply Barabara Cook! What more can a person ask?
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Barbara Cook gets better with age. This album, even though it repeats
some songs from other albums, is a great way to hear her voice through the years Amust for Barbara Cook fans
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the magical Barbara Cook,
By Byron Kolln (the corner where Broadway meets Hollywood) - See all my reviews (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (TOP 100 REVIEWER)
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Very few Broadway leading ladies are truly deserving of the "Broadway Legend" tag...but Barbara Cook certainly is. This disc spotlights her incredible career with highlights from her performances drawn from their original cast albums plus Cook's landmark Carnegie Hall concert. Serious collectors and fans would already have these discs, but for the casual listener or someone just starting out, it's a great stepping stone.
Even the greatest performers will occasionally have to make the best out of starring in a flop show. Barbara Cook's very first lead role came in FLAHOOLEY in 1951, which stumbled along for 40 performances, mainly geared as a vehicle for exotic singing sensation Yma Sumac. "Overnight fame" rarely ever happens overnight, and Cook had been working hard in New York for several years (earning great notices for her appearances in PLAIN AND FANCY and a Lincoln Center revival of CAROUSEL) when her day finally arrived, starring in Leonard Bernstein's legendary original production of CANDIDE in 1956. As soon as Cook performed Cunegonde's jewel aria "Glitter and Be Gay" for the first time, the legend was born. The following year, Cook was Marian in the original cast of Meredith Willson's THE MUSIC MAN, kicking up her heels with Robert Preston for a long and successful run. In 1963 she was the winsome Amalia Balash in Bock and Harnick's delightful SHE LOVES ME, a show which featured such soon-to-be-Cook standards as "Vanilla Ice Cream", "Dear Friend", and "Will He Like Me?". She later dazzled as Mrs Anna in a limited-run revival of THE KING AND I at Lincoln Center (recording an album of the score in 1964); but by the end of the decade she had disappeared from New York. Emerging in the 1970s after battling alcoholism and depression, Cook resumed her career as a concert performer, quickly establishing herself as the "go-to" girl for Sondheim material in particular. Her long association with Sondheim reached it's peak when she played Sally Durant Plummer in his star-studded 1985 concert production of FOLLIES. As of this review's writing, Barbara Cook is still in marvelous voice, still touring and performing her various concert shows. At the moment she's in New York starring in Sondheim's 80th birthday Broadway celebration, "Sondheim on Sondheim". For ease of collecting, this disc features tracks drawn from the following albums: Candide (1956 Original Broadway Cast) The King And I (1964 Studio Cast) Follies in Concert (1985 Live Performance) + Stavisky Film Score Show Boat (1962 Studio Cast) Barbara Cook at Carnegie Hall
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