Barbara Cook Dies; Broadway's Inimitable Marian The Librarian, Cunegonde Was 89 by Jeremy Gerard

Barbara Cook, whose performance as Marian, the lonely librarian who falls for the huckster musical instruments salesman “Professor” Harold Hill played by Robert Preston in Meredith Willson’s The Music Man endeared her to generations of Broadway audiences beginning in the 1950s, died Tuesday morning in Manhattan. She was 89. Adam LeGrant, her son and only immediate survivor, said the cause was res…

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