Barbara Cook

On stage 20 productions, 59 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

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In the literature8 passages

• First performance: 29 October 1956, Boston, Colonial Theatre, cast incl. Barbara Cook (Cunegonde), Robert Rounseville (Candide), Max Adrian (Dr. Pangloss); Tyrone Guthrie (dir.), Samuel Krachmalnick (cond.)ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• Studio cast (1988) : Barbara Cook, Samuel Ramey, Sarah Brightman, David Rendall, Maureen Forrester, and Paul Gemignani (conductor). MCA Classics MCAD 6209.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Concert cast (1985) : Barbara Cook, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Lee Remick, Mandy Patinkin, Licia Albanese, George Hearn, Phyllis Newman, Carol Burnett, Elaine Stritch, Paul Gemignani (conductor). RCA HBC2–7128.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Original Lincoln Center revival cast (1966) : Barbara Cook, Constance Towers, Stephen Douglass, David Wayne, William Warfield, Franz Allers (conductor). RCA LSO 1126.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Some famous performers who are, or have been able to hold forth alone because of the interesting repertoire they present, are Beatrice Lillie, An Evening with Beatrice Lillie (1952); Victor Borge, Comedy in Music (1953); Anna Russell, Anna Russell’s Little Show (1953); Maurice Chevalier; Josephine Baker, (1967) and (1974); Bette Midler, C…ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
• 177 There are, of course, exceptions. Two outstanding ones are Barbara Cook and Christine Andreas. Ms Cook’s magnificent coloratura was the inspiration for the role of Cunegonde in Leonard Bernstein’s Candide. In the ‘Glitter and Be Gay’ number he took her up to a stratospheric Eb above high C! And yet her eloquent diction made every word…ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt

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