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.
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.
"A coherent existance after so many years of muddle" - Desiree' Armfelt, A Little Night Music
"Life keeps happening everyday, Say Yes" - 70, Girls, 70
"Life is what you do while you're waiting to die" - Zorba