Love Is Good For Anything That Ails You: Barbara Cook in cabaret at the Cafe Carlyle

The Carlyle Hotel presents Barbara Cook in a limited six-week engagement in the newly restored Caf� Carlyle. Having recently celebrated her 80th birthday with sold out concerts in New York and Los Angeles, Ms. Cook returns to the New York venue that she has played every year since making her debut engagement in 1981.

From 4 Mar 2008, and playing a limited six-week engagement through 12 Apr 2008, Ms. Cook will present an all new program - Love Is Good For Anything That Ails You - a special collection of songs devoted to that universal subject � love. Audiences can expect to hear such familiar standards including Irving Berlin�s �I Got Lost in His Arms,� Rodgers & Hart�s �Where or When,� and Burton Lane�s �Old Devil Moon� to newer songs including Peter Allen�s �Harbour,� Stephen Sondheim�s �Sooner or Later,� and John Bucchino�s �If I Ever Say I�m Over You.�

Ms. Cook will be supported by a trio, Peter Donovan (bass) and Richard Saporito (drums) led by her Musical Director, Lee Musiker (piano).

Barbara Cook made her Broadway debut in 1951 in the musical 'Flahooley', which was followed by 'Carousel' and in 'Plain and Fancy', 'Candide', 'The Music Man' (Tony Award), 'She Loves Me!' (Drama Desk Award). To name a few of her Broadway and off Broadway appearances.

In 1975 she made a legendary Carnegie Hall debut which was preserved as the live recording, 'Barbara Cook at Carnegie Hall'. With her collaborator and musical director, the late Wally Harper, she embarked on a second career as a concert and cabaret artist returning to perform at Carnegie Hall five times.

A Grammy Award winner, her recordings include eight original Broadway cast albums, two Ben Bagley albums of songs by Jerome Kern and George Gershwin, an album entitled 'Songs of Perfect Propriety', featuring poems by Dorothy Parker set to music by Seymour Barab, 'As Of Today' (Columbia) and 'The Disney Album' (MCA). Recent recordings include 'Count Your Blessings', 'Barbara Cook's Broadway' and 'Mostly Sondheim'.