Ruth Leon recommends… Ice Cream – Barbara Cook

Ice Cream – Barbara Cook

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She Loves Me is a stage musical with a book by Joe Masteroff, music by Jerry Bock, and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, the same guys who wrote the songs for Fiddler on the Roof.

The musical is the third adaptation of the 1937 play Parfumerie by Hungarian playwright Miklós László, following the 1940 film The Shop Around the Corner and the 1949 musical version In the Good Old Summertime. But She Loves Me was the biggest hit and is still revived by theatre companies throughout the world.

On Broadway, the role of Amalia Balash, a shopgirl in love with her pen-pal who turns out to be  her mortal foe in the shop where they both work, went to Barbara Cook.   

Already a star, for her appearances in Plain and Fancy, Oklahoma!, Candide, and her Tony for originating the role of Marion in The Music Man, she hit the heights with this iconic song which she went on to sing in almost every concert and cabaret appearance for the rest of her life.

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