Beyond the Fringe of, in 1960, by an Oxford graduate, Robert Ponsonby, artistic director for the Edinburgh International Festival. John Bassett, a graduate of Wadham College, Oxford, who was Ponsonby's assistant, recommended Dudley Moore, his jazz bandmate and a rising cabaret talent. Moore in turn recommended Alan Bennett, who had had a hit at Edinburgh a few years before. Bassett also chose Jonathan Miller, who had been a Footlights star in 1957. Miller recommended Cook. Bennett and Miller were already pursuing careers in academia and medicine respectively, but Cook had an agent, having written a West End revue for Kenneth Williams. Cook's agent
Original Cast (record label) Cast Records also released "Lost Broadway and More - Volume 5" featuring the songs of Jule Styne and Comden & Green and others, November, 2013. In 2014, Original Cast Records made available - for the first time - twenty titles for Digital Download including "The Baker's Wife", "In Trousers", "Carmelina", Alison Fraser's Original Cast Recording of "Lizzie Borden" and Ms. Fraser's solo CDs: "Men In My Life" and "A New York Romance." Also issued were: Ben Bagley's "The Littlest Revue" (originally produced by Bruce Yeko), "Breakfast At Tiffany's" (Studio Cast Recording), "The Girl I Left Behind Me", "Noel Coward: off