Barbara Cook and Meryl Steep Among Kennedy Center Honorees!

[Mildred Plotka]

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

[givesmevoice]

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

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

[dreaming]

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]

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

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

[CurtainPullDowner]

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

Thrilled for Ms. Cook. a true American Legend!

[DealingwithDivas]

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

I agree! So excited for her!

[BrodyFosse123]

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

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

[Almira]

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.

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

[Will42]

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]

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]

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.

[dreaming]

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

Has the award ever been given posthumously?

[Q]

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

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

[SondheimFan5]

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]

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?

[Q]

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

"What the hell is that about?"

My guess would be ONE FROM THE HEART

[wicked1492]

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.

[Roscoe]

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

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

[dreaming]

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]

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]

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

Youngest was Aretha Franklin - she was 52

[Q]

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]

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.

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

[backwoodsbarbie]

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?

[redmustang]

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

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