Barbra Streisand in Concert

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Barbra Streisand in Concert
Tour by Barbra Streisand
BarbraS InConcertPoster.jpg
Promotional poster for tour
Start dateDecember 31, 1993 (1993-12-31)
End dateJuly 24, 1994 (1994-07-24)
Legs1
No. of shows22 in North America
4 in Europe
26 Total
Box office$54.9 million ($112.86 in 2023 dollars) [1]
Barbra Streisand concert chronology
  • An Evening with Barbra Streisand
    (1966)
  • Barbra Streisand in Concert
    (1994)
  • Timeless
    (1999–2000)

Barbra Streisand in Concert is Barbra Streisand's first full tour which ran from 1993 through 1994. The tour consisted of 26 shows starting on New Year's Eve 1993 in Las Vegas and ended Anaheim, California in July 1994. The 18 shows that went on sale following the new year concerts in Las Vegas sold out in 1 hour. [2] This tour was also the first time Barbra toured anywhere in Europe and was the last until her Timeless tour in 2000.

Contents

Background

Barbra had only toured once previously, in 1966, when a planned five-week 20-city tour was cut to four dates, due to her pregnancy. [3] Although Streisand continued to perform at various concert events, the 1994 tour marked her first after decades of reported stage fright.

Commercial reception

According to Barbra's official website, the tour set attendance and box office records in every city it played in with the first 18 dates selling out within 1 hour. The phone requests for tickets reached 5 million within the first hour the tour went on sale. [4] The tour grossed $50 million in 1994.

Broadcasts and recordings

HBO broadcast the final Anaheim show (taped July 24, 1994) as Barbra: The Concert on August 21, 1994, garnering a television audience of 11.2 million viewers, and becoming the highest-rated musical event in the network's history. A home video release of The Concert followed a month later on VHS and Laserdisc. [5] At the 47th Primetime Emmy Awards, the special was nominated in ten categories, winning five, including Outstanding Variety or Music Special and Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program. [6]

A live album recorded at Madison Square Garden was released in September 1994, The Concert reached number 10 on the Billboard Album Chart and was certified triple Platinum by the RIAA. [7]

In 2004 Sony BMG produced a DVD of the previously unreleased New Year's Eve shows recorded in Las Vegas, The Concert: Live at the MGM Grand. [8]

Set list

  1. "As If We Never Said Goodbye"
  2. "I'm Still Here"
  3. "Can't Help Lovin' That Man"
  4. "I'll Know"
  5. "People"
  6. "Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)"
  7. "Will He Like Me?"
  8. "He Touched Me"
  9. "Evergreen"
  10. "The Man That Got Away"
  11. "On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever)"
  12. "The Way We Were"
  13. "You Don't Bring Me Flowers"
  14. "Lazy Afternoon"
  15. "Once Upon a Dream" / "When You Wish Upon a Star" / "Someday My Prince Will Come"
  16. "Not While I'm Around"
  17. "Ordinary Miracles"
  18. "Where Is It Written?" / "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" / "A Piece of Sky"
  19. "Happy Days Are Here Again"
  20. "My Man"
  21. "For All We Know"
  22. "Somewhere"

Set list per official DVD track listing.

Shows

List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, tickets sold, number of available tickets and amount of gross revenue
DateCityCountryVenueAttendanceRevenue
New Year's Eve Concerts
December 31, 1993 Las Vegas United States MGM Grand Garden Arena 25,120 / 25,120$13,560,750
January 1, 1994
Europe
April 20, 1994 London England Wembley Arena ——
April 25, 1994
April 27, 1994
April 29, 1994
North America
May 10, 1994 Landover United States USAir Arena 27,728 / 27,728$4,688,200
May 12, 1994
May 15, 1994 Auburn Hills The Palace of Auburn Hills 45,160 / 45,160$7,780,700
May 17, 1994
May 19, 1994
June 2, 1994 Anaheim Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim 77,130 / 77,130$12,400,650
June 4, 1994
June 7, 1994 San Jose San Jose Arena ——
June 9, 1994
June 20, 1994 New York City Madison Square Garden 94,284 / 94,284$16,488,900
June 23, 1994
June 26, 1994
June 28, 1994
June 30, 1994
July 10, 1994
July 12, 1994
July 18, 1994AnaheimArrowhead Pond of Anaheim [a] [a]
July 20, 1994
July 22, 1994
July 24, 1994
Total266,262 / 266,262$54,919,200

Notes

  1. 1 2 The score data is representative of the six shows in Anaheim, California at the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim on June 2, 4, July 18, 20, 22, and 24 respectively.

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  3. ↑ "1966 Concert Tour Newport, Philly, Atlanta, Chicago". Barbra Archives. Retrieved 2022-02-22.
  4. ↑ "Biography".
  5. ↑ According to the Barbra Archives: a DVD release would not appear until 2009, and Netflix first streamed Barbra: The Concert in 2018.
  6. ↑ Barbra Streisand: The Concert on Emmys.com
  7. ↑ "Barbra: The Concert (1994) live CD" . Retrieved 2022-02-22.
  8. ↑ "Barbra: The Concert (1994)". Archived from the original on 2012-08-23. Retrieved 2022-02-22.
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