Home |Register |Sign In Home Top Picks: All Books Then & Now Then & Now A Memoir by Barbara Cook, Tom Santopietro Price: $16.99 (Paperback) MorePublished: June 27, 2017 Rating: 0.0/ 5 (0 votes cast) From the Publisher: One of the greatest American singers and actresses of her generation looks back on a magical and turbulent life spanning a halfcentury of theatrical history from the golden age of the Broadway musicalto the present day.</p><p> A legend of the American theater, Barbara Cook burst upon the scene to become Broadway’s leading ingénue in roles such as Cunégonde in Leonard Bernstein’s Candide , Amalia Balash in Jerry Bock’s She Loves Me , and her career-defining, Tony-winning role as the original Marian the librarian in Meredith Willson’s The Music Man.</p><p> But in the late 1960s, Barbara’s extraordinary talent onstage was threatened bydebilitating depression and alcoholism that forced her to step away fromthe limelight and out of the public life.</p><p> Emerging from the shadows in theearly 1970s, Barbara reinvented herself as the country’s leading concert… Rate This Book Add To Wishlist |Rate/Review Add To Bookshelf Get This Book Personalize / Add More ChoicesGo to your preferred retailer, click to choose a format and you' ll be taken directly to their site where you can get this book.</p><p> What We Say One of the greats, with the Tony and Kennedy Center Honors to show for it, Barbara Cook is a peerless interpreter of classic tunes from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Stephen Sondheim.</p><p> Though effortlessly commanding on stage, Cook had a difficultlife, from abandonment by her beloved father to the controlling neediness of her probably unstable mother to alcoholism that plagued both Cook and her marvelous accompanist, Wally Harper.</p><p> She bares all in this memoir.</p><p> Ardent fans will surely savor the passages about that famously challenging aria from "Candide" and her prickly friendship with Elaine Stritch.</p><p> Cookis forthright, but always hardest on herself.</p><p> A "natural" singer who has studied and honed her craft to perfection, Cook isShare This Book About The Author Barbara Cook, Tom Santopietro MoreBarbara Cook, a 2011 Kennedy Center honoree and member of the Theater Hall of Fame, has starred in eighteen Broadwayshows.</p><p> She received a Tony Award nomination in 2010 for Sondheim on Sondheim , fifty-three years after winning a Tony for her performance in The Music Man .</p><p> Now in her … Release Info List Price: $16.99 (Paperback) Published: June 27, 2017 Publisher: Harper Paperbacks Pages: 272 ISBN 10: 006209047X ISBN 13: 9780062090478far from a natural raconteur, a la Stritch.</p><p> Her memoir is baldly descriptive, often flat and honestly a bit of a slog for any but the most devoted of fans, myself among them.</p><p> It's welcome as a hint to the complicated, challenging life she led.</p><p> Her honesty is admirable.</p><p> But Cook's soul remains bared most beautifully on stage, in song. -- Michael Giltz What Others Say “Then and Now is narrated with the same homey bonhomie that has informed Ms.</p><p> Cook’s stage patter in recent years.” - New York Times “Theater rats will savor Ms.</p><p> Cook’s account of her ‘Candide’ audition in front of the show’s composer, Leonard Bernstein . . .</p><p> It’s clear in every word she sings that her wisdom is deep and hard-won.” - Wall Street Journal “It’s all here in Cook’s memoir.</p><p> Great theater, great people, not so great people, alcoholism, compulsive eating, an affair with actor Arthur Hill when they were both married to other people; the great love of the lady’s life.</p><p> A second career in cabaret that continues into her ninth decade.” - WOSU/NPR News and Classical Music “And what a story it is, told in a bright, refreshing and brutally honest voice, in a manner that you would expect from Barbara Cook….</p><p> Get yourself a copy of Then & Now now and plunge into it, giving yourself breaks here and there to listen to Barbara singing…” - Huffington Post What You Say Filter by No Reviews Found ..... about us |faq|advertise |privacy policy |newsletter |contact us ©2018, BookBuddha LLc.</p><p> All Rights Reserved.
