Barbara Cook

Maintained by Louise. I was tweeting what she wanted to for her ("I need a platform!"). Now that she is gone I'll continue to post her quotes and updates.

[Barbara Cook @TheBarbaraCook]

You are ENOUGH. You are ALWAYS enough. We are ALL, ALWAYS enough.

[Barbara Cook @TheBarbaraCook]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

BC “I need a platform!”

[Barbara Cook @TheBarbaraCook]

Today would have been Barbara’s 97th birthday! I miss her so much. Louise

[Barbara Cook @TheBarbaraCook]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[Barbara Cook @TheBarbaraCook]

https://t.co/OKe5s4QgE3

Today would have been Barbara’s 96th birthday! I miss her so much. Louise

[Sondheim Lyrics @sondheimlyrics]

You're gone, and yet you're mine.

[Barbara Cook @TheBarbaraCook]

@KnoxVanHorn It’s definitely her handwriting, and Frank Military used to send her all the new songbooks Warner Chappell published. I was confused at first by her ‘autographing’ her own books, but I think she was trying to know which books were hers when she was working on a new show w Wally.

[Barbara Cook @TheBarbaraCook]

BC taking about it with Mike Douglas in 1981, at the 50 minute mark. https://t.co/MIGsKIWCWt Thanks, John!

[Barbara Cook @TheBarbaraCook]

In honor of The Music Man’s opening night, a couple of photos of the locket Meredith Willson gave to Barbara Cook on opening night in 1957.

[Barbara Cook @TheBarbaraCook]

And here she is wearing it, probably in 1988. https://t.co/Bt8FgvH0gr

[Barbara Cook @TheBarbaraCook]

I generally try not to speak for her, but I flew with Barbara to Australia to see @RealHughJackman in The Boy From Oz (after she’d already seen it at least 7 times on Broadway). I know she’d be OVER THE MOON at the thought of him taking on the role of Harold Hill! @MusicManBway

[David Zippel @davidzippel.bsky.social @DavidZippel]

@SimonGBeck @TheBarbaraCook Me too. I owe her so much. She was the first person in the theater to sing my songs. Talk about starting at the top! And what a wonderful friend.

[Barbara Cook @TheBarbaraCook]

@DrewGasparini @mwrab @AlysaAuriemma Barbara Cook once said in a master class ‘If your only message is that you can sing it’s kinda like masturbating. Not that there’s anything wrong with masturbation.’ Not the exact words but very close. The whole class is on NYPL’s website.

[Atlanta Board of Education @BOEAPS]

Day 2: IT’S WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH!

Name: Barbara Cook

High School: Girls High School’45

Profession:An American singer and actress who lead in the original Boardway musicals “Plain and Fancy”.

Barbara Cook’s Quote:“I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.”