The Stephen Sondheim Society

Not heard anything but I could ask Gareth Valentine.
Lynne

She's mentioned in all the reviews.
Courtesy of John Connelly from BCIAS:

From The Times
June 16, 2008
Strictly Gershwin at the Albert Hall
Glamour, glitz and Gershwin are all thrown into this glorious choreographic mix
“Add in the presence of the outstanding Gareth Valentine (as musical supervisor) and the incomparable Barbara Cook, queen of cabaret singers, and the seal is set on the evening's exemplary musical credentials.”

“And to hear Cook in any setting is an ecstatic pleasure. Her four heartfelt songs capture Gershwin like no one else.”



http://arts.guardian.co.uk/theatre/dance/reviews/story/0,,2285786,00.html

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/caa36a5a-3c7f-11dd-b958-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1


Strictly Gershwin, Royal Albert Hall, London
By Clement Crisp
Published: June 17 2008 19:36


“The best link with the realities of Gershwin songs is the presence of Barbara Cook, fabled chanteuse whom I have adored since Bernstein’s Candide was young, who has the skill to let Gershwin sound like Gershwin rather than some bombastic same-namer.”





English National Ballet Strictly Gershwin
Royal Albert Hall, London
Judith Mackrell
Monday June 16, 2008
The Guardian


“The legendary Barbara Cook (now 80) sings four numbers, and if her top notes are little husky, she performs classics such as Someone to Watch Over Me as if she lived every phrase and every note.”

Strictly Gershwin
http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/21004/strictly-gershwin
Stage, UK -

“Singer Barbara Cook and the ballroom dancers Lilia Kopylova and Darren Bennett were especially well received by the packed house, but it’s clear from the loud and prolonged applause that Deane and English National Ballet have a popular hit on their hands.”


Strictly Gershwin: a rhapsody unrealised
Telegraph.co.uk,

“Cheered to the rafters, Cook at 80 still has her gorgeous phrasing and musical joie de vivre, even if not much of the voice, and the band delivers Gareth Valentine's brazenly ebullient arrangements of two dozen Gershwin numbers zestfully under a canopy of starry blue lights.”

Lynne
Many thanks for that information. The reviews sound good so might even try to go. Maybe Kim Creswell was just doing the 2 nights on offer hense the discount. And I have just realised I have spent Cook wrong and added an "e" oops!