Then and Now: A Memoir
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.76 (846 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0062090461 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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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) . “Then and Now HarperCollins) is narrated with the same homey bonhomie that has informed Ms. Cook’s stage patter in recent years.” (New York Times)“Theater rats will savor Ms. 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
Emerging from the shadows in the early 1970s, Barbara reinvented herself as the country’s 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 difficulties and the legendary triumphs, detailing the extraor
"The story behind the legend." according to TomEnroute. I have been a fan of Barbara Cook since seeing her in Show Boat at Lincoln Center 50 years ago. I have seen her perform numerous times over the years and have always felt that the beautiful voice projected the beauty and honesty that was inside her. Her life story with its peaks and valleys ca. Rick Rodgers said I have such wonderful memories of her as a performer. I am a big fan of theatrical biographies, and read just about everyone one that comes down the pike. Ms. Cook's book is unique in so many ways. It is one of the rare autobiographies where I actually came out of the book with renewed admiration for the writer instead of feeling exhausted from b. "Great singergreat wrier" according to Larry B. I've been a fan or Barbara Cook at least since she played Marion, the librarian, in The Music Man. On the basis of knowing her as a singer I would have never predicted that she has lived the life she writes about in this memoir. On the other hand, I would not have predicted that a person who l
Barbara Cook, a 2011 Kennedy Center honoree and member of the Theater Hall of Fame, has starred in eighteen Broadway shows. 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. Now in her late eighties, she continues to perform as a cabaret and concert singer.Tom Santopietro is the author of five books, including The Sound of Mus