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Barbara Cook-Mostly Sondheim-A Concert

Broadway's musical legend performs an intimate concert of her favorite Sondheim songs and more.

Jun 5 - Aug 18, 2002
Terrace Theater
2 hours
$45.00 - $50.00

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About the Program

Artists:

Barbara Cook

Barbara Cook, gifted with a clear, beautifully toned lyric soprano voice and ingenue good looks, was a megastar of the Broadway musical stage for a decade in the 1950's and 1960's. She created three important roles in the American musical repertoire: Cunegonde in Leonard Bernstein's Candide (1956), Marian the Librarian in The Music Man (1957), and Amalia in She Loves Me (1963). Cook later shifted gears and has since performed primarily in concerts and cabaret, with an emphasis on the Great American Songbook.

Today, Cook is offering a Mostly Sondheim program, based on the concept of Sondheim's 70th birthday celebration concert, which featured not only songs by Sondheim, but also songs that "he wishes he had written." It's a marriage made in heaven - but sometimes heaven takes its time. Although Cook's rendition of "Losing My Mind" was a show-stopper in the 1985 Follies concert at Avery Fisher Hall, she hasn't returned often to Sondheim material. Onstage she refers to the songs with a degree of awe as "art songs."

For all the skill that Cook brings to her performance, though, she still makes it look and sound easy, natural. Her art makes her seem artless. And that apparent artlessness accomplishes a small miracle: Barbara Cook is a convincing ingenue.....even at 73.

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