TORONTO -- Monday this week: Nine hours before Cookin' At The Cookery is to open in previews at the Bluma Appel theatre, and star Jackie Richardson is listening on my MP3 player to an Alberta Hunter song she hadn't heard before.
It's You Can't Tell The Difference After Dark, recorded in 1935, with lyrics like "I may be brown as a berry/ but that's just secondary/ You can't tell the difference after dark." It's cheeky, racial and sexually boastful, and Richardson bursts out laughing.
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