Barbara Cook's Autobiography!

[Rick R]

Posted: 2/9/11 at 7:40am

From Publisher's Weekly's daily post

Memoir
Actress, singer, and concert performer Barbara Cook's memoir, with NYT theater critic Charles Isherwood, discussing the author's almost seventy years spent in the theater, beginning with her early iconic roles such as Cunégonde in Leonard Bernstein's Candide, Amalia Balash in Jerry Bock's She Loves Me, and her career-defining and Tony-winning role as the original Marian Paroo in Meredith Willson's The Music Man; including her struggles with depression and alcoholism, and her 2010 Tony nomination at the age of 82 for her work in Sondheim on Sondheim, to Jonathan Burnham and Rakesh Satyal at Harper, for publication in the fall of 2012, by Jeff Berger at Jeff Berger Management, for Cook, and David Kuhn at Kuhn Projects, for Isherwood.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 2/9/11 at 10:58pm

Now if that isn't a run-on sentence to cherish!

[aasjb4ever]

Posted: 2/9/11 at 11:06pm

Awesome! I'd read it.

[TheLadyoftheWood]

Posted: 2/10/11 at 1:51am

Please tell me there is going to be a chapter of her bitching about Carrie in the Stratford production. Tid-bits about that would be full worth the price of the book.

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 2/10/11 at 1:56am

Count me in on wanting a lot of dishing about Carrie.

She's had some career, though, it should be interesting no matter what.

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 2/10/11 at 10:21am

Yay!

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 2/10/11 at 10:23am

So this is technically a "Cook Book". Get it?? A COOK book? Get it??

[PalJoey]

Posted: 2/10/11 at 12:55pm

Are you saying she's fat?

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 4/13/11 at 7:34pm

I don't want to wait until Fall 2012.

[backwoodsbarbie]

Posted: 4/13/11 at 10:27pm

Thank god, I bet that broad has so many good stories to tell.

[BroadwayBound062]

Posted: 4/13/11 at 11:01pm

soooooooooooooo excited