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Barbara Cook, one of Broadway’s leading ingenues and cabaret performers, has passed away in her Manhattan home, her representative said Tuesday. She was 89. Amanda Kaus told WNBC that Cook died of ...

Tony Award-winning actress Barbara Cook has died. Cook died of respiratory failure on Tuesday, surrounded by friends and family at her home in Manhattan, according to her publicist. She was 89 years ...

Barbara Dixon, aka Broadway Barbara, is a has-been/never-been of the Great White Way. Always the chorine, never the star, her persona sugarcoats the prickly bitterness of Elaine Stritch with the ...

So how come Barbara Cook doesn't act her age? Closing in on her 80th birthday (this Thursday), she scats and shimmies on a stage as if the clock had no claim on her. "I'm as giddy as a baby on a swing ...

Cook won a 1958 Tony award for her work in The Music Man. She also starred in a number of other Broadway musicals, including the original casts of Candide and She Loves Me, as well as New York ...

Basically, she arrived on Broadway in the 1950s and never left. After being the ingénue in Flahooley in 1951 and then starring in the original musicals Plain and Fancy (1955), Candide (1956) and The ...