Barbara Cook, RIP

[dirac]

Barbara Cook has died at age 89. I don't doubt she will be glittering and gay in the Great Beyond, and as noted below, she will come equipped with a heavenly voice:

 

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Equipped with a sweet disposition and heavenly voice, Ms. Cook was possibly the most all-American, apple-pie female lead the Broadway musical stage ever saw. She played most of her important roles while in her 20s and 30s. These included two landmark musicals, She Loves Me and The Music Man—she was the original Marian the Librarian—as well as the flawed masterpiece Candide, and the lesser-known shows Plain and Fancy, Flahooley, and The Gay Life. She introduced such standards as “Till There Was You,” “My White Knight,” “Ice Cream,” and “Glitter and Be Gay.”

 

 

[sandik]

Since we are talking about the Kennedy Center Honors in another thread, here is the tribute to Barbara Cook.  I'm still sniffling.