Barbra Live
| Tour by Barbra Streisand | |
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| Start date | October 8, 2012 |
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| End date | June 22, 2013 |
| Legs | 3 |
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| Box office | $66.3 million ($68.17 in 2016 dollars) |
| Barbra Streisand concert chronology | |
Barbra Live was the sixth concert tour by American recording artist, Barbra Streisand. Visiting North American and European markets, the tour was Streisand's first tour since 2006. Barbra Live was the 22nd best-selling tour in the world during 2012. It earned $40.7 million and sold 154,287 tickets.
In April 2013 it was officially announced that Barbra would continue the tour through Europe in the summer of 2013.
The shows at Brooklyn's Barclays Center were filmed and released on CD and DVD as Back to Brooklyn
Initially planned as two shows to mark the opening of the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn, the show was billed as Barbra's Homecoming - since Streisand was born in Brooklyn. The shows sold out quickly and no further dates were added. On August 9, 2012 it was announced that Streisand would expand the series of concerts now opening in Philadelphia on October 8, 2012. On September 14, three additional engagements in America were added. One of these dates included the famous Hollywood Bowl where Barbra's 1967 performance—An Evening with Barbra Streisand—broke the Bowl's attendance record of the time, with an audience of 17,256 people.
The concerts received mostly positive reviews and critical acclaim. The Ottawa Sun reviewed the concert at Scotiabank Place and wrote "Streisand’s voice was truly exceptional. Intimate, yet on a grand scale, only she could do a concert that was small enough to feel personal, yet big enough to feel like a Broadway musical." Miriam Di Nunzio from the Chicago Sun-Times wrote "At 70, the singer still possesses one of the most pristine voices in music, a voice that completely and sumptuously envelops a room, even one the size of the cavernous United Center. There is an intimacy and honesty in Streisand’s delivery — a rare treat in this age of lip-synched, overblown concert extravaganzas."The Jerusalem Post wrote on her opening night in Philadelphia "Her voice (and cleavage) were better than many of the stars half her age that are currently touring."The Vancouver Sun stated that "The perennially decorated singer/actor/writer/director left an indelible mark on her Vancouver audience with a performance that was pure, undiluted class."
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