Cookin' at the Cookery: The Music and Times of Alberta Hunter
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Opened Jan 22, 2003
Closed Mar 2, 2003
Opened Jan 22, 2003
Closed Mar 2, 2003
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Conceived by Marion J. Caffey and starring Ann Duquesnay and Debra Walton, Cookin' at the Cookery: The Music and Times of Alberta Hunter chronicles the dynamic life and career of legendary blues singer and international star Alberta Hunter. After the death of her mother, Alberta gave up her music career at the age of 61 to become a nurse. The play begins as Alberta, at the age of 82, returns to one of her old haunts: the Cookery club in Greenwich Village. After celebrating her triumphant return, the story unfolds into a series of flashbacks of her younger self rising to stardom running alongside the blues of her later life.
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In 1977, Barney Josephson -- long famous for injecting adrenaline into Manhattan night life -- gave the city's on-the-town mavens another adrenaline rush by booking the 82-year-old Alberta Hunter into his Greenwich Village eatery-cum-jazz boite, The Cookery. When
Hunter opened, singing in public for the first time since 1961, she kicked off what may still be the biggest entertainment comeback story of the last half-century. Performing on a regular basis until her death in 1984, she amused audiences with her feisty songs as she had been doing, but for her 1961-1977 break as a Welfare Island nurse, since 1911.
It's a great, grin-inducing story, and lusty Ann Duquesnay is telling it again in[...]