by Barbara Cook
I loved being onstage with Robert. Photofest
As Amalia Balash in She Loves Me—a jewel of a show.
My beloved son, Adam, age three, on a hot New York summer afternoon.
Cutting up in The Gay Life with Walter Chiari, 1961.
Start of rehearsals for Something More. Arthur Hill and I soon fell deeply in love.
One of my many appearances on The Bell Telephone Hour. I look like Mimi in La Bohème! Photofest
With Don Porter in the long-running comedy hit Any Wednesday. Photofest
1975: I had gained so much weight and was still drinking—but was on my way back. Courtesy of George Connelly
With my musical soulmate, Wally Harper. Courtesy of Mike Martin
With Stephen Sondheim and Elaine Stritch, signing copies of Follies In Concert.
Concertizing around the world throughout the 1980s and 1990s. A brand-new life. Courtesy of Mike Martin
Celebrating my eightieth birthday by singing with the New York Philharmonic. Courtesy of Stephanie Berger
Adam escorting me to the Kennedy Center Honors, December 2011. Courtesy of Margot Schulman
Posing with President and Mrs. Obama at the time of the Kennedy Center Honors. Thrilling. White House Photo
With Vanessa Williams in Sondheim on Sondheim, my first Broadway musical in thirty-nine years. Courtesy of Richard Termine
October 2012: My eighty-fifth birthday concert at Carnegie Hall with my friends (left to right): Josh Groban, Susan Graham, John Pizzarelli, Jessica Molaskey, and Sheldon Harnick. Daniel Zuchnik/Getty Images
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Much of this book was written at my desk across from my assistant, Deborah Surdi. She was a terrific audience, laughing, crying, looking up facts from time to time. I can’t imagine having done this without her.
And how can I ever give enough thanks to Tom Santopietro. In the beginning I just handed him a bunch of scribblings and he organized it all into a book.
Jim Luigs was, as always, very helpful. I also want to thank Louise Martzinek. Thanks to Adam LeGrant. Thanks to Jeff Berger, Allen Sviridoff, Jonathan Jao, Jonathan Burnham, Philip Rinaldi, Mark Sendroff and anybody else I may have forgotten.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
BARBARA COOK STARRED on Broadway in numerous productions, including The Music Man, for which she won a Tony Award. Now in her late eighties, she continues to perform as a cabaret and concert singer, has made numerous recordings, and was named an honoree at the 2011 Kennedy Center Honors. She lives in New York City.
TOM SANTOPIETRO is the author of five books, including The Sound of Music Story and the New York Times Editors’ Choice Considering Doris Day. He lives in New York City.
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CREDITS
COVER DESIGN BY MILAN BOZIC
COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY ANDREW ECCLES
INSET PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF THE AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT
THEN AND NOW. Copyright © 2016 by Barbara Cook. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
First Harper hardcover published 2016
FIRST EDITION
Unless otherwise credited, all photographs are courtesy of the author.
ISBN 978-0-06209046-1
EPub Edition JUNE 2016 ISBN 9780062090485
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