VIDEOS: Barbra Streisand's Broadway! Part Four: The 1990s

By: Jun. 13, 2016
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Barbra Streisand's "ENCORE: Movie Partners Sing Broadway" album will debut on August 26th, 2016, featuring 10 new Streisand duets of Broadway classics with some of the biggest stars in Hollywood. The inspired new musical pairings on "ENCORE: Movie Partners Sing Broadway" include Alec Baldwin, Antonio Banderas, Jamie Foxx, Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman,Seth MacFarlane, Melissa McCarthy,Chris Pine, Daisy Ridley,Patrick Wilson, and a spectacular virtual duet with Anthony Newley.

Fans can pre-order "ENCORE: Movie Partners Sing Broadway" now at Amazon, Apple Music or the Barbra Streisand Music Store.

In celebration of Barbra Streisand's commitment to singing and recording the great songs of Broadway, BroadwayWorld presents a six-part decade-by-decade video series sampling the legendary artist's performances of musical theatre classics.

Barbra Streisand's Broadway! Part Four: The 1990s:

In 1991 Barbra Streisand released a 4-CD box set called, "Just For The Record," a collection of tracks from her past: demos, television appearances, nightclub work, cut tracks from past albums and nearly anything else. Certainly one of the set's biggest highlights was this live theatre recording of her singing "I'm The Greatest Star" during a performance of FUNNY GIRL.

Other vintage recordings in the set included Rodgers and Hart's "Nobody's Heart" from BY JUPITER, the title song from Harold Arlen and Truman Capote's HOUSE OF FLOWERS and a combination of Kander and Ebb's "A Quiet Thing," from FLORA, THE RED MENACE and Stephen Sondheim's "There Won't Be Trumpets," cut from ANYONE CAN WHISTLE.

After the great success of 1985's "The Broadway Album," is was only natural that a follow-up would soon be in the works. 1993's "Back To Broadway" included a sensational duet with THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA's own Michael Crawford of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe's "The Music Of The Night." Other highlights included George and Ira Gershwin's "The Man I Love" from STRIKE UP THE BAND and Stephen Sondheim's "Move On" from SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE.

The next year Barbra Streisand released a recording made from five packed-house concerts at Madison Square Garden. It was her first live New York performance since her 1968 concert in Central Park, but as she assured fans with Andrew Lloyd Webber's SUNSET BOULEVARD ballad, it was "As If We Never Said Goodbye."

Streisand closed out the decade with her 1999 album, "A Love Like Ours," which featured the exquisite George and Ira Gershwin ballad, "Isn't It A Pity," from PARDON MY ENGLISH.

Tomorrow: Barbra Streisand's Broadway! Part Five: The 2000s.



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