So she's doing baggy pants vaudeville shows now?
Posted on 10/05/2006 8:12:16 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Barbra Streisand snipes at Bush in concert
By Jon HurdleThu Oct 5, 3:15 AM ET
Barbra Streisand opened her first U.S. tour in 12 years on Wednesday with a show that ridiculed her political nemesis, President George W. Bush.
Before a capacity crowd of some 16,000 people at South Philadelphia's Wachovia Center, Streisand gave assured renditions of standards from her long career as a singer and actress including "Funny Girl," "Come Rain or Come Shine," "Love Soft as an Easy Chair," and "Somewhere."
The show also featured a skit where an actor playing Bush uttered such lines as, "I'm concerned about the national debt, so I'm selling Canada," and "If I cared about the polls I would have run for president of Poland."
Streisand, 64, a longtime liberal activist, said she was coming out of retirement to raise money for her foundation, which supports a range of causes related to the environment, education, health care and other issues.
Wearing a black sequin outfit with a slit skirt for the first half of the show and a black gown and shawl with gold trim after the interval, Streisand sat at a tall swivel chair at the front of the stage and at different times during the two and a half hour show moved upstage on a series of walkways around the orchestra.
She explained her reliance on a teleprompter by recalling that she had been so traumatized by forgetting the words to three songs at a 1967 concert in New York she had stopped giving live concerts for more than 20 years. She declared six years ago that she would not play live anymore.
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I'm shocked, just shocked!!!
Did she wear a bra for this event?!!! The picture last week on the Drudge report made me sick!
So she's doing baggy pants vaudeville shows now?
Lame, Babs & Co. Really lame.
Desperate?
"MY EYES!!! IT BURNS, IT BURNS!!!"
What was the reaction of the crowd to her slams?
Including Brabra buying a new septic tank?
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"Love Soft as an Easy Chair"
The title is "Evergreen", Jon.
What an ugly human being, inside and out.
Nails-On-Chalkboard Screech bump
I didnt know(or care)that she is still alive
I wouldn't be surprised if this has actually happened but then again maybe she is too old for him.
That's what I was thinking. What an idiot of a reporter that doesn't even bother to get the correct titles of the songs he cites in his report.
I Actually think that one is funny, more of a rip on Canada, to me anyways.
A whole lot of "fans" were really pissed off that her 'Sayonarra' performances in Vegas ended up being a ripoff....wifey knows two liberal lesbians who spent the really big bucks to see that.
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