Broadway leading lady and cabaret mainstay Barbara Cook dies at 89 by Robert D. McFadden / New York Times

Barbara Cook, a lyric soprano whose rousing songs and romantic ballads touched America's heart in an odyssey that began in the golden age of Broadway musicals, dealt with alcoholism, depression and obesity, and forged a second life in cabarets and concert halls, died early Tuesday at her home in Manhattan. She was 89.

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