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One of the greatest American singers and actresses of her generation looks back on a magical and turbulent life spanning a half century of theatrical history from the golden age of the Broadway musical to the present day. A legend of the American theater, Barbara Cook burst upon the scene to become Broadways leading ingnue in roles such as Cungonde in Leonard Bernsteins Candide , Amalia Balash in Jerry Bocks She Loves Me , and her career-defining, Tony-winning role as the original Marian the librarian in Meredith Willsons The Music Man. But in the late 1960s, Barbaras extraordinary talent onstage was threatened by debilitating depression and alcoholism that forced her to step away from the limelight and out of the public life. Emerging from the shadows in the early 1970s, Barbara reinvented herself as the countrys leading concert and cabaret artist, performing the songs of Stephen Sondheim and other masters, while establishing a reputation as one of the greatest and most acclaimed interpreters of the American songbook. Taking us deep into her life and career, from her childhood in the South to the Great White Way, Then and Now candidly and poignantly describes both her personal dif

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Author

Barbara Cook with Tom Santopietro

Publisher

New York, NY: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062090461

Category

music

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Fiction

Rating

4.03 / 5 (91 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14