Mariann Cook is a professor of Music Theater Voice Emerita at the Westminster School of the Arts at 小优视频 as well as a professional singer and actress who has performed on Broadway in the national tour of The King and I. She formerly instructed voice at the University of Oklahoma Weitzenhoffer School of Musical Theatre. Other professional credits include Aldonza in a stock tour of 鈥淢an of La Mancha鈥 opposite Broadway veterans John Raitt and Jerome Hines, formerly with the Metropolitan Opera at The Papermill Playhouse. Additionally, she performed as Maria in 鈥淪ound of Music,鈥 Hilda in 鈥淧lain and Fancy,鈥 Nancy in 鈥淥liver,鈥 Eliza Doolittle in 鈥淢y Fair Lady鈥 and Guinevere in 鈥淐amelot.鈥 As a cross-over singer, Mariann has performed with the Tulsa Opera as Berta in the 鈥淭he Barber of Seville鈥 and the Second Lady in 鈥淭he Magic Flute鈥 under the baton of Ransom Wilson. Her Operetta roles include Natalie in 鈥淭he Merry Widow鈥 with Mark Jacoby and Susan Powell, Buttercup in 鈥淧inafore,鈥 and Lady Bracknell in 鈥淓arnest in Love.鈥 She has also been soloist in dozens of Broadway Symphonic Evenings nationally and can be heard on a newer recording of West Side Story as Anita.
