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
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.
Artists
Barbara Cook
Watch and Listen
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