Broadway favorite Cook was scheduled to discuss and sign her new memoir, Then and Now, at 5 PM. Playwright Steven Carl McCasland was announced as the moderator for the free evening.
Over the course of her 65-year career, Cook has won Tony, Grammy, Drama Desk and New York Drama Critics Circle Awards, was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame and was cited as a Living New York Landmark. In 2011 she became a Kennedy Center Honors recipient.
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