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Singer and Actress Barbara Cook.

Singer and actress Barbara Cook. Since the 1950's Cook has been in countless Broadway musicals--"Oklahoma", "The King and I", and Leonard Bernstein's "Candide" to name a few. She's been called a "no nonsense singer...able to thrust with gentility of tone." Cook has a new album--her first in five years--called "Dorothy Fields: Close as Pages in a Book." She won a Tony Award for her part as "Marian the librarian" which she originated in "The Music Man."

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Other segments from the episode on November 18, 1993

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, November 18, 1993: Interview with Ed Ryder and James McCloskey; Interview with Barbara Cool; Review of the film "The Piano."

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