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I am trying to find out if Jordan Donica will be performing on the Tonys telecast. Does anyone know?

I think the chemistry between Lancelot and Guinevere will return when Jordan Donica returns as Lancelot. He has been out sick this past week.

Thanks for posting the merch pics. I’m sure I’m not the only one who would like to see a t-shirt with Jordan’s pic on it! ❤️

Very disappointed in the League. What do they have to gain by withholding on this? I don't understand.

I just phoned the 212 number for the League that Morosco provided. A very pleasant woman answered on the first ring, listened to my plea that the lights be dimmed for Jan Maxwell, went away briefly to consult someone, and said that a decision has not yet been made. She was very kind and listened to all I said and said that she would pass it on to the appropriate parties. So I think calling might help! I cited some of the arguments given above, including that the lights have been dimmed for pe...

We have lost a woman of such complexity, who gave us her gift decade after decade as she changed and deepened. I just watched the Kennedy Center tribute again with tears all the way through, as I did when it was first broadcast. So many here have offered remembrances and tributes that I am not sure I have anything meaningful to add. But maybe this. I also just watched for the upteenth time Barbara's upbeat concert performance of "It's Not Where You Start" from Seesaw. To my mind, she ennobles...

I would love to see Cleo Laine as Mme. Armfeldt. Especially with Imelda Staunton as Desiree. Cleo is still in good voice and I loved her "Liaisons" on her Sondheim CD, admittedly recorded years ago, but still . . . Cleo is often in a wheelchair now, but that would not hamper her in this part.

A touching Stephen Holden NYT review of her performance at Studio 54 a few days ago:http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/23/arts/music/review-barbara-cook-a-lioness-who-still-has-some-bite-left.html

Thanks for posting the NYT article, Michelle. I had not seen it. I changed the thread title for clarity! :)

Is anyone going to the Barbara Cook book signing and discussion at B&N this coming Monday evening 6/27? The man hosting the discussion is the co-author (with her) of her new autobio. If anyone goes, please report after.

Thanks. Sorry. I should have Googled.

I was surprised to see today that LDJ is closing on 6/26. Was this always the plan? Wonder why it is closing so soon. I would think there would be demand for tickets still. Maybe it was scheduled for a predetermined run only. Sorry if this is generally known.

Off the main point, but related: When Jana Schneider played Helena in the original Drood, she had a line that got great laughs when (in character) she referred to herself as having a "geographically untraceable accent".

It was announced a long time ago that Isherwood was co-writing the memoir with Cook. Don't know what happened with that.

I was just on Amazon for another purpose and happened to see that Barbara Cook's new memoir "Then and Now" is available for preorder, to be shipped June 21. Co-author is Tom Santopietro, who has also written a bio of Streisand and a book about the Von Trapps. Very excited to read BC's memoir!

Thank you, Alice. Very sad news indeed.

I think this might not be true, as his Wikipedia entry does not include his death, I can't find an obituary for him via Google, and the BWW article doesn't come up via the link in the first post. He played a judge for quite a few episodes of the original "Law and Order". Seeing him there, I always wished I could see him in a larger part.

"You Could Drive A Person Crazy".

I think naming has the power of creating a visual image--desired or un-. Witness the former Phoenix Open Golf Tournament, which got title sponsorship from Waste Management , Inc. The tournament is now billed everywhere as the Waste Management Phoenix Open. Always makes me picture a portapot by the 18th hole.

Tag, What was the Bill/Billy story? I wasn't around here back then.