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| How'd Barbara Cook ever get involved with Carrie? | |
| Posted by: bobby2 03:05 am EDT 08/16/17 | |
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| Seems like an odd choice for her return to book musicals. (and she wasn't really the type of singer for the role). Why'd Maureen McGovern not continue with the project? I guess it permanently soured her on musicals and I don't think she ever did a regular book musical again. |
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| re: How'd Barbara Cook ever get involved with Carrie? | |
| Posted by: sf 07:29 pm EDT 08/16/17 | |
| In reply to: How'd Barbara Cook ever get involved with Carrie? - bobby2 03:05 am EDT 08/16/17 | |
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| I never bought the (mis)perception that Cook was miscast in 'Carrie' - but then I saw her in it, and I only barely knew who she was before I saw it (I was about 15; seeing 'Carrie' sent me looking for her other recordings). The show was a mess, albeit a mess with a few very good things in it, but she gave a wonderful performance. For my money, nobody - and I mean *nobody* - gets as much out of 'When There's No One' as Cook did. | |
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| re: How'd Barbara Cook ever get involved with Carrie? | |
| Posted by: simbo 03:36 am EDT 08/16/17 | |
| In reply to: How'd Barbara Cook ever get involved with Carrie? - bobby2 03:05 am EDT 08/16/17 | |
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| At the time, "It's for the Royal Shakespeare Company" carried a bit of cachet. They'd just launched Les Mis which was on its way to conquering the world, and it was a 4 week tryout in Stratford, not a very big commitment in the scheme of things. But yes, it was not exactly a great experience for her and yes, it probably pushed her away from doing further shows (of course, there wasn't exactly a lot of material that screamed "put Barbara Cook in me" in that era anyway) | |
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| re: How'd Barbara Cook ever get involved with Carrie? | |
| Posted by: Delvino 02:36 pm EDT 08/16/17 | |
| In reply to: re: How'd Barbara Cook ever get involved with Carrie? - simbo 03:36 am EDT 08/16/17 | |
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| Having seen both Buckley (twice) and Mazzie (twice) play Margaret, I can see why Cook was chosen. If you watch the DePalma film the robust maternal glow that Piper Laurie maintained in the role certainly suggested Cook at that age. She wore a costume that wasn't dissimilar. Type wise, it wasn't a stretch, and the score was of course written for a higher voice (even though the keys might've been lowered for Buckley; I don't know if they were, so don't shame me for supposition.) I think she sang "Open Your Heart' exquisitely. But I'm a fan of all of Margaret's material in the show, to a number the best stuff there. It held up very well. Cook probably thought, "why not?" Especially with Hands' track record. It's a helluva juicy role, even with limited stage time, and those scenes in the musical -- tellingly -- changed the least in the revision. It's the heartbeat of the story -- this perverse mother-daughter dynamic -- and Cook liked the music, which she often said. | |
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| re: How'd Barbara Cook ever get involved with Carrie? | |
| Posted by: mlop 12:19 pm EDT 08/16/17 | |
| In reply to: re: How'd Barbara Cook ever get involved with Carrie? - simbo 03:36 am EDT 08/16/17 | |
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| The Royal Shakespeare Company wanted her she had done a concert or two in London, Barbara loved London. Maureen McGovern was hired to do the Workshop..... Laurie Beachman, Liz Callaway, all were in that but not in the subsequent shows. | |
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| re: How'd Barbara Cook ever get involved with Carrie? | |
| Posted by: bobby2 08:45 pm EDT 08/16/17 | |
| In reply to: re: How'd Barbara Cook ever get involved with Carrie? - mlop 12:19 pm EDT 08/16/17 | |
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| did Beachman play the gym teacher? I forget. and Callaway was Sue? |
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| re: How'd Barbara Cook ever get involved with Carrie? | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 09:15 am EDT 08/16/17 | |
| In reply to: re: How'd Barbara Cook ever get involved with Carrie? - simbo 03:36 am EDT 08/16/17 | |
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| I wonder how receptive Sondheim or other theatre writers of the time would have been if she'd gone to them and said she was interested in doing musicals on Broadway again and could they either keep her in mind or actually write something with a suitable part for her. I can't imagine any musical theatre writer not wanting to take advantage of that voice and that talent. I mean, if one of the greatest song interpreters who ever graced a stage came to me and said she's like to work with me, I couldn't move heaven and earth fast enough to make that happen. Like you, I also can't think of a lot of parts from the 1980's that would have been suitable for her. Her glorious voice would have been wasted in a lot of the typical older lady character parts. And there's just not a lot of leading roles for sopranos in their 50's. She might have made an interesting Witch in INTO THE WOODS. |
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| re: How'd Barbara Cook ever get involved with Carrie? | |
| Posted by: EvFoDr 12:38 pm EDT 08/16/17 | |
| In reply to: re: How'd Barbara Cook ever get involved with Carrie? - JereNYC 09:15 am EDT 08/16/17 | |
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| Could she have done a stint as Carlotta in Phantom? | |
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| re: How'd Barbara Cook ever get involved with Carrie? | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 12:42 pm EDT 08/16/17 | |
| In reply to: re: How'd Barbara Cook ever get involved with Carrie? - EvFoDr 12:38 pm EDT 08/16/17 | |
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| Interesting Choice...I bet she'd have been great in that. She'd said that, while she found some of his music beautiful, she did not like Andrew Lloyd Webber personally, so I wonder if that would've impacted any PHANTOM stint she might have considered. I don't think that people have to like each other or get along personally in order to work together as long as everyone can behave in a professional manner, but she may not have wanted to ever lend her name to one of his productions. |
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