Barbara Cook Brings Broadway to London, 11 MayDate: 23 April 2004
Broadway diva Barbara Cook (pictured) returns to London next month with her latest one-woman show, Barbara Cook’s Broadway, which will have a strictly limited season, from 11 to 29 May 2004 only, at the West End’s Gielgud Theatre.
Cook was last seen in London with her 2001 Olivier-nominated show Mostly Sondheim, and has had earlier cabaret seasons at the Donmar Warehouse and the Albery Theatre. In 1997, she celebrated her 70th birthday with a concert at the Royal Albert Hall.
On her own shores, the American singer is a legend. Broadway's favourite ingenue in the 1950s and 60s, Cook originated important roles in musical theatre such as Cunegonde in Bernstein's Candide, Marian the Librarian in The Music Man (for which she won a Tony), and Amalia in She Loves Me.
Barbara Cook’s Broadway recalls those golden years of the Great White Way, trawling through personal anecdotes as well as songs such as "The Party's Over", "Make the Man Love Me", "It's Not Where You Start", "Wait 'Til You're Sixty-Five", "Wonderful Guy", "My White Knight", "Mister Snow", "Nobody Else But Me", "His Face", "This Nearly Was Mine" and "A Perfect Relationship".
The new show arrives in London after a month at New York’s Lincoln Center, where it will return for a second limited engagement this summer.
In Barbara Cook’s Broadway, Cook is accompanied once again by Wally Harper, her long-time musical director. Together their recordings have included "It's Better with a Band", "Oscar Winners: The Lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein", "Champion Season: A Salute to Gower Champion" and "Mostly Sondheim". A recording of the latest show is also being released.
Currently at the Gielgud, the RSC production of All’s Well That Ends Well, also presented in the West End by Bill Kenwright, finishes its extended, sell-out season on 8 May 2004.
- by Terri Paddock
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