Barbara Cook - Barbara Cook on Candide: Auditioning for Bernstein

[@billbrimmer1739]

I could listen to her forever. Charm in abundance and oh the stories. “I didn’t read music then, and I don’t now” such honesty!

[@ImVee10]

“You get all those lines above the staff, and you know something’s going on” might be the most musical thing ever spoken. 😂💀

[@salumbre365]

"You have great musical courage!" 😂😂😂 I love how self-deprecating she is.

[@broadwaymike92]

RIP to an angelic voice

[@bryanupfield6934]

Met Barbara cook in London in 1989 after a concert, such a delightfully friendly and warm woman.

[@scottishphotographer]

Me too! Donmar Warehouse... '86. She was so sweet to a fanboy!

[@carmel35davis58]

I adore these wonderful interviews with Barbara; she is so charming and candid! I wish I could hug her!!!

[@karaamundson3964]

ha...I see what you did there..."candid"...ha!

[@allancuseo7431]

I loved her and spent many evenings in the Village with her. A classy lady and a beloved performer.

[@stephenpatt952]

what a delight...a great lady...full of spunk! magnificent voice....

[@Wendy-je9zf]

this lady is a mood

[@c.w.r.794]

RIP Barbara. You are forever missed.

[@nickbigd]

This is a tremendous audition story!

[@alanbecker2569]

Great artistry. She will be missed.

[@ricoltmetric8156]

I got to see her in concert. I am grateful

[@davidmorgan3472]

Saw BC in London in her one woman shows many times , a true star with a unique voice, she will be missed. D x

[@emmarose4234]

I’m proud to say that she and I are fellow Georgians. ❤️❤️❤️

[@sarahaprincesa]

Legend😍

[@Tsiferblat]

She didn't know how to read music?! That's incredible!

[@carolinecorman1716]

She is living history.

[@meganomahoney5450]

I’m the same

[@kennethwayne6857]

Neither did Frederica von Stade.

[@salumbre365]

Not the first, not the last. Barbra Streisand is one of the many.

[@marysueeasteregg]

Pavarotti could not read music.

[@MissFawlty]

I love this video so much...

[@canamus1768]

even though she is so closely associated with "glitter and be gay," ms cook didn't sing it after the broadway run of "candide." i recall an interview where she said, in effect, singing it eight times a week for as long as the show ran was enough for a lifetime.

[@FlowersInHisHair]

And then she did it 8 shows a week for MONTHS

[@w.urlitzer1869]

73 performances, two months.

[@karaamundson3964]

BC was the shit. She was literally the only person who could sing this.

[@francoaragosta4285]

Imagine being far advanced in years, notably overweight and STILL incredibly BEAUTIFUL -- and in many ways prettier than ever! Tha was Brbara cook -- and she SANG wonderfully well throughout her long, amazingly well spent life. And she SANG Cunegonde as well as it could possibly have been sung. Only Diana Damrau, Kristen Chenoweth and to a slighty lesser extent the late great comedienne Madleine Kahn have been able to equal Barbara Cook in evoking the COMIC GENIUS nherent in the role.

[@kennethwayne6857]

I would put Ms. Kahn above the other two. Ms. Chenoweth is incredibly talented but her rendition of this was a bit too silly for my taste.

[@rajabhatsaengduan2377]

[@DavidN369]

And just think, if George Abbott hadn't advised Edie Adams to take Daisy Mae over Cunegonde -- she was offered both -- we would never have gotten Barbara Cook's indelible portrayal. Fate.❤

[@williamlabossiere2104]

Boy, is this a tremendous loss...

[@ryantimm4206]

Oh shit thought this was hill dog

[@ivannano]

It's why she was one of the most respected performers on Broadway - not only by audiences, but also by performers.