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We all knew that Barbara Cook celebrates a wonderful performance in Show Boat, but we never knew about the other talents she lent to the show in our new Legends…

Leonard Bernstein’s comic operatta based on Voltaire’s satirical novel, Candide, enabled Barbara Cook in her first major role on Broadway, to give a luminous performance as Cunegonde, highlighted with her…

…we asked Barbara Cook what she learned from Mabel Mercer, a singer Frank Sinatra described as “the best music teacher in the world.” Enjoy this mini masterclass with Barbara below….

…Lieberson couldn’t get the original Joey, for Gene Kelly was much too busy with his Hollywood career. So, Lieberson chose Harold Lang. (Joey is a song-and-dance man, and Lang had…

…staff had expressed enough dissatisfaction that Robert Russell Bennett was recruited to replace Lang’s work. Thus, we must wonder if Lang’s orchestrations on the Day-Goulet album are his originals or…