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Cool (West Side Story song)

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Use in popular culture
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{{DISPLAYTITLE:Cool (West Side Story song)}}{{Refimprove|date=March 2012}}"Cool" is a song from the musical West Side Story. Leonard Bernstein composed the music and Stephen Sondheim wrote the lyrics. This song is known for its fugal treatment of a jazz figure, described by one writer as "possibly the most complex instrumental music heard on Broadway to date".^[1]

For the film, "Cool" was swapped with the song "Gee, Officer Krupke."

Use in popular culture

In 2011, actor Harry Shum Jr. performed the song, as his character Mike Chang from TV series Glee, in the third episode of season 3, "Asian F" (aired on October 4).^[2]

An episode of Animaniacs features a parody version as "Coo Bird" sung by Bobby of The Goodfeathers. The song is also parodied in the Flight of the Conchords episode The Tough Brets with the song "Stay Cool, Bret".

The Castle episode "Cool Boys" has Richard Castle and Detective Slaughter sing it to distract some criminals holding them at gunpoint.

British sketch show Horrible Histories parodied this song as a song about the English Civil War.

References

1. ^Nigel Simeone, Leonard Bernstein, West Side story (Ashgate Publishing, 2009), {{ISBN|978-0754664840}}, pp. 84, 102. [https://books.google.com/books?id=BFtYzKOz85YC&pg=PA84 Excerpts available] at Google Books.
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.masslive.com/television/index.ssf/2011/10/glee_mike_changs_asian_f_earns.html|title='Glee': Mike Chang's 'Asian F' earns an A+|author=Stephens, Samantha|date=October 4, 2011|work=The Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts)|accessdate=23 February 2017}}

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