Barbara Cook and Meryl Steep Among Kennedy Center Honorees!

[Mildred Plotka]

Barbara Cook and Meryl Steep Among Kennedy Center Honorees!#1

Posted: 9/7/11 at 11:12am

Great choices! So pleased about Ms Cook!


http://www.playbill.com/news/article/154292-Barbara-Cook-Meryl-Streep-Neil-Diamond-and-More-Are-Kennedy-Center-Honorees

"Broadway...I'll lick you yet!"

[givesmevoice]

Barbara Cook and Meryl Steep Among Kennedy Center Honorees! #2

Posted: 9/7/11 at 11:21am

Great choices, indeed! Can't wait to see who they get together to honor Cook.

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

[dreaming]

Barbara Cook and Meryl Steep Among Kennedy Center Honorees! #2

Posted: 9/7/11 at 11:29am

I'm guessing Audra McDonald will do something, and Kristin Chenoweth will do "Glitter and Be Gay". Other possibilities-Judy Kuhn doing "Ice Cream".

[SondheimFan5]

Barbara Cook and Meryl Steep Among Kennedy Center Honorees! #3

Posted: 9/7/11 at 11:43am

FANTASTIC!!!! For Cook, and for Streep.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Barbara Cook and Meryl Steep Among Kennedy Center Honorees! #4

Posted: 9/7/11 at 12:08pm

Thrilled for Ms. Cook. a true American Legend!

[DealingwithDivas]

Barbara Cook and Meryl Steep Among Kennedy Center Honorees! #5

Posted: 9/7/11 at 12:47pm

I agree! So excited for her!

[BrodyFosse123]

Barbara Cook and Meryl Steep Among Kennedy Center Honorees! #6

Posted: 9/7/11 at 12:50pm

99.9% of the US population will be asking: "... who the hell is Barbara Cook?"

[Almira]

Barbara Cook and Meryl Steep Among Kennedy Center Honorees! #7

Posted: 9/7/11 at 1:03pm

"99.9% of the US population will be asking: "... who the hell is Barbara Cook?""


99.9% of the population doesn't know what a Kennedy Center Honor is.. so it kinda works out.

Congratulation Ms. Cook. Long overdue.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Updated On: 9/7/11 at 01:03 PM

[Will42]

Barbara Cook and Meryl Steep Among Kennedy Center Honorees! #8

Posted: 9/7/11 at 1:10pm

Congrats to Ms. Cook, but what the hell are they waiting for to award Carol Channing? Elaine Stritch deserves it too.

[zamedy]

Barbara Cook and Meryl Steep Among Kennedy Center Honorees! #9

Posted: 9/7/11 at 1:19pm

They, unfortunately, waited too long to honor Ethel Merman and Mary Martin.

Congrats to Ms. Cook and Ms. Streep. Updated On: 9/7/11 at 01:19 PM

[madbrian]

Barbara Cook and Meryl Steep Among Kennedy Center Honorees! #10

Posted: 9/7/11 at 1:33pm

I have no problem with Cook being honored before Channing. As for Stritch, she may have no bigger fan than me on BWW, but I'd be shocked if she were ever honored by the Kennedy Center.

I guess we'll see Rebecca Luker among those singing songs from Cook's body of work.

"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

[dreaming]

Barbara Cook and Meryl Steep Among Kennedy Center Honorees! #11

Posted: 9/7/11 at 1:50pm

Has the award ever been given posthumously?

[Q]

Barbara Cook and Meryl Steep Among Kennedy Center Honorees! #12

Posted: 9/7/11 at 1:58pm

dreaming - no, it hasn't. Not the point of this award.

[SondheimFan5]

Barbara Cook and Meryl Steep Among Kennedy Center Honorees! #13

Posted: 9/7/11 at 1:58pm

they seem to do one 'Broadway person' each year (or maybe it just seems that way)...would be great to honor Stritch and Channing, but they had better act quickly!!
Updated On: 9/7/11 at 01:58 PM

[Roscoe]

Barbara Cook and Meryl Steep Among Kennedy Center Honorees! #14

Posted: 9/7/11 at 2:21pm

Nice for Ms. Cook, that's lovely. Streep and Neil Diamond, well, whatever. But they still haven't given it to Francis Ford Coppola. What the hell is that about?

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/

[Q]

Barbara Cook and Meryl Steep Among Kennedy Center Honorees! #15

Posted: 9/7/11 at 2:53pm

"What the hell is that about?"

My guess would be ONE FROM THE HEART

[wicked1492]

Barbara Cook and Meryl Steep Among Kennedy Center Honorees! #16

Posted: 9/7/11 at 4:37pm

"The Kennedy Center Honors medallions will be presented Dec. 3, the night before the gala, at a State Department dinner hosted by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton."

That sounds like a party.

"These rabid fans...possess the acting talent to portray the hooker...Linda Eder..." -The New York Times

[Roscoe]

Barbara Cook and Meryl Steep Among Kennedy Center Honorees! #17

Posted: 9/7/11 at 4:41pm

ONE FROM THE HEART was no worse than THE JAZZ SINGER or MAMMA MIA, but okay.

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/

[dreaming]

Barbara Cook and Meryl Steep Among Kennedy Center Honorees! #18

Posted: 9/7/11 at 4:52pm

Does anyone else think they might try to reunite the Monkees or get Davy Jones to sing one of the Neil Diamond songs he wrote for them?

[Amalia Balash]

Barbara Cook and Meryl Steep Among Kennedy Center Honorees! #19

Posted: 9/7/11 at 6:11pm

Absolutely thrilled about Barbara Cook finally being recognized!

Meryl Streep's career certainly warrants recognition, but she seems young for the award. (Please don't tell me she's really 90 and just looks young for her age.) Who's the youngest person to ever receive a Kennedy Center Honor?

[DealingwithDivas]

Barbara Cook and Meryl Steep Among Kennedy Center Honorees! #20

Posted: 9/7/11 at 6:18pm

Youngest was Aretha Franklin - she was 52

[Q]

Barbara Cook and Meryl Steep Among Kennedy Center Honorees! #21

Posted: 9/7/11 at 6:20pm

Just a little joke, Roscoe - there is no real answer to your question, other than someone must not like him.

[givesmevoice]

Barbara Cook and Meryl Steep Among Kennedy Center Honorees! #22

Posted: 9/7/11 at 6:23pm

I actually just read this somewhere, Amalia: Stevie Wonder was the youngest Kennedy Center honoree at 49. Streep is the same age that Leonard Bernstein and Ella Fitzgerald were when they were honored.

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

Updated On: 9/7/11 at 06:23 PM

[backwoodsbarbie]

Barbara Cook and Meryl Steep Among Kennedy Center Honorees! #23

Posted: 9/15/11 at 10:50am

I'm guessing unless she is unavailable, Kristin Chenoweth will sing "Glitter and be Gay" for her idol Barbara Cook. I can also see Audra McDonald, Rebecca Luker, Kelli O'hara, Laura Benanti, Patrick Wilson and/or Matthew Morrison performing to honor Ms. Cook. Any thoughts on what Sondheim tunes we may hear? "In Buddy's Eyes" has become one of her signature songs, no? Any chance we might hear Bernadette sing it at the ceremony?

http://backstagebarbie.blogspot.com

[redmustang]

Barbara Cook and Meryl Steep Among Kennedy Center Honorees! #24

Posted: 9/15/11 at 2:11pm

Congratsulations to Barby and Mary Louise. Have a wonderful evening.