Biography
25 October 1927, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. A celebrated actress and singer, with a style that, as one critic expressed it, "marries a beautiful and undiminished soprano voice to nuance-rich phrasing and a skilled actress' emotional interpretation". Cook's first professional engagement was at New York's Blue Angel club in 1950, where she sang mainly standards by the likes of George Gershwin, Jerome Kern and Rodgers And Hart. A year later she was starring on Broadway as Sandy in the offbeat, short-lived musical Flahooley. In 1953 she played Ado Annie in a City Centre revival of Oklahoma!, followed by a national tour. The following year her performance as Carrie Pipperidge in another Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein II revival, Carousel, gained her the role of Hilda Miller in Plain And Fancy which ran for over 400 performances. In 1956, Cook introduced Leonard Bernstein and Richard Wilbur's "Glitter And Be Gay" in Candide, "the season's most interesting failure", and,...
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