Never thought you’d see 74-year-old Barbra Streisand in a live performance again?
Think again, because she announced Monday she’ll launch a nine-city national tour this summer starting in Los Angeles.
And she’s expected to belt out everything from “People” from the 1960s through dozens of other hits through six decades of stardom.
Streisand will kick off the nine-city tour with an Aug. 2 concert at Staples Center, followed by dates in San Jose, Las Vegas, Chicago, Brooklyn, Boston, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and Toronto.
The 74-year-old performer’s longtime manager, Marty Erlichman, said Streisand will perform her hits recorded over six decades, plus songs from her new album, “ENCORE: Movie Partners Sing Broadway.”
Every ticket purchased online includes a CD of Streisand’s third Broadway album, which will be released later this year.
Tickets for all shows will go on sale May 25, and will be available online, via charge-by-phone and at venue box offices. But American Express card members can purchase tickets for the U.S. dates before the general public from Wednesday through Sunday, and for Toronto from Thursday through Sunday.
With her live performances being so rare and special, the excitement surrounding a Streisand tour is unequaled, according to some Streisand watchers. Following a 27-year hiatus from live concerts, Streisand’s 1994 world tour garnered a record-setting 5 million phone requests to Ticketmaster and sold out within the first hour. Her shows in fall 2006 broke house records in 14 of the 16 venues in which she played (in the other two arenas, Streisand already held the buildings’ records).
Streisand’s last tour in 2012, BACK TO BROOKLYN, highlighted an emotional return to performing in concert in her home borough for the first time since she was in grade school.
Of the first of her Brooklyn shows, which helped inaugurate the brand new Barclays Center.
—City News Service