description: What are cabaret divas made of? Tears and spice and love affairs thrice-- plus a regal bearing that would have the Queen of England tugging her forelock. Three of these duchess/martyrs--singers Barbara Cook, Julie Wilson, and Rosemary Clooney--are profiled in Deborah Grace Winer's The Night and the Music , the most skillful evocation of the cyclic world of New York cabaret since James Gavin's Intimate Nights in 1991. As interwoven by the author, the women's life stories are nearly early sex-goddess success in the 1950s; the dark 1960s when audiences evaporated and led to personal treks through hell; the 1980s' spring of rediscovery, rebirth, and ascension into divadom. Winer brings to life a world of thick carpets, clinking glasses, gleaming pinkie rings, and private demons harnessed for art.
language: English
title: Night And The Music: Rosemary Clooney, Barbara Cook, And Julie Wilson, Inside The World Of Cabaret
titlecomplete: Night And The Music: Rosemary Clooney, Barbara Cook, And Julie Wilson, Inside The World Of Cabaret
genres: Music, Biography
ratings_count: 10
publisher: Diane Pub Co