| re: Barbara Cook Memorial | |
| Posted by: Billhaven 11:06 pm EST 12/18/17 | |
| In reply to: Barbara Cook Memorial - Duke1979 08:25 pm EST 12/18/17 | |
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| The memorial was beautifully directed and produced by James Lapine and Lincoln Center. There were many film clips from her television performances including Alfred Hitchcock Presents (where she is doing a very sensual shimmy). The speakers were all concise, funny and heartfelt. Leading off was Sheldon Harnick (who got a huge ovation) telling a wonderful story of how he and Bock played their new song "Vanilla Ice Cream" for Cook on a morning out of town in Philadelphia. Cook loved it and said "Why don't we put in in tonight?"They gave it to Milton Rosenstock to be orchestrated that afternoon, rehearsed it and put it in the show that very night. It stopped the show. The performances were all fine, understated, and very moving including Kelli O'Hara singing "Make Someone Happy", Renee Fleming singing "Hello, Young Lovers" and Audra Mcdonald performing "Go Back Home". Frank Langella had a very fine tribute with a great anecdote about an evening at Barbara Walter's dinner party. The funniest AND most stunning film clip (introduced by Sondheim) was Cook singing "In Buddy's Eyes" in a rehearsal room with a completely transfixed audience of her fellow performers Lee Remick, Mandy Patinkin and Sondheim. Everyone riveted except for Elaine Stritch who was fussing with her shoes, her cigarette, her underwear drawing attention to herself (at least she didn't inject herself). The evening ended with Ms. Cook's son Adam LeGrant who was funny and touching and talked about his mother in very human terms. It was a perfect send-off for someone who Langella called a true artist. |
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