Timeless (Barbra Streisand)

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Timeless
Tour by Barbra Streisand
BarbraS TimelessPoster.jpg
Promotional poster for tour
Start dateDecember 31, 1999 (1999-12-31)
End dateSeptember 28, 2000 (2000-09-28)
Legs1
No. of shows6 in North America
4 in Australia
10 Total
Box office$70 million ($110.15 in 2021 dollars) [1]
Barbra Streisand concert chronology

Timeless [2] was a concert tour by entertainer Barbra Streisand. Following her hotly anticipated Millennium Concert 1999/2000 (which is cited as being part of this tour) Barbra decided to take this concert on the road for an 8-day tour of Australia, Los Angeles & New York. [3] The tour grossed a record-breaking $70 million and drew audiences of 200,000 for only 10 dates.

Contents

History

The tour was directed by Streisand and Kenny Ortega and was originally set to be solely a Millennium concert with 2 concerts seeing in the 21st century. The dates were released in April and all tickets sold out within a few hours of going on sale. [4] Following the success of the millennium concert, Barbra decided to take the tour on the road and visited Australia for the first time and included Melbourne and Sydney before heading back to America for 4 other concerts in Los Angeles and New York City. Although only 10 shows were performed, they were spread over 9 months.

Broadcasts and recordings

The week before the final concerts Columbia Records released a 2-disc CD of the millennium concert entitled Timeless: Live in Concert which entered the US Billboard charts at number 21 and was certified Platinum by the RIAA. [5] This CD includes a credit listing Sydney Philharmonia Choirs who recorded backing tracks in March 2000 (the weekend after their live performances with Barbra in Sydney) that were included in this 'live' album. February 2001 saw the release of Timeless the DVD which debuted at Number 1 on the Billboard Top Music Video Sales chart and has been certified Platinum by the RIAA. [6]

Set list

  1. "You'll Never Know"
  2. "Something's Coming"
  3. "The Way We Were"
  4. "Cry Me a River"
  5. "Lover, Come Back To Me"
  6. "A Sleepin' Bee"
  7. "Miss Marmelstein"
  8. "I'm the Greatest Star" / "Second Hand Rose" / "Don't Rain on My Parade"
  9. "Something Wonderful" / "Being Alive"
  10. "As Time Goes By" / "Speak Low"
  11. "Alfie"
  12. "Evergreen"
  13. "Papa, Can You Hear Me? / "You'll Never Know"
  14. "A Piece of Sky"

Intermission

  1. "Putting It Together"
  2. "On A Clear Day (You Can See Forever)"
  3. "Send In the Clowns"
  4. "Happy Days Are Here Again"
  5. "Get Happy
  6. "Guilty" (with Barry Gibb)
  7. "I Finally Found Someone" (with Bryan Adams)
  8. "Tell Him" (with Celine Dion)
  9. "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" (with Neil Diamond)"
  10. "Sing" (with Jason Gould)
  11. "I've Got a Crush on You"
  12. "The Clicker Blues"
  13. "Simple Pleasures"
  14. "The Main Event" / "Fight"
  15. "I've Dreamed of You"
  16. "At the Same Time"
  17. "People"
  18. "Happy Days Are Here Again"
  19. "Don't Like Goodbyes"
  20. "I Believe" / "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
North America
December 31, 1999 Las Vegas United States MGM Grand Garden Arena 15,842 / 15,842 [7] $18,231,213 [8]
January 1, 2000
Australia
March 9, 2000 Sydney Australia Sydney Football Stadium ——
March 10, 2000
March 15, 2000 Melbourne Colonial Stadium
March 17, 2000
North America
September 20, 2000 Los Angeles United States Staples Center 31,284 / 31,284$12,600,000
September 21, 2000
September 27, 2000 New York City Madison Square Garden 25,994 / 25,994$14,393,750
September 28, 2000
Total88,962 / 88,962$63,456,176

Personnel

NOTE: Some performers do not appear in person.

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