Barbra Streisand Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway

[WestCoastActor/Director]

The track listing 
 

1.    "At The Ballet."  With Anne Hathaway and Daisy Ridley.  From "A Chorus Line,"

2.    "Loving You."  With Patrick Wilson.  From Stephen Sondheim's "Passion." 

3.    "Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)?"  With Anthony Newley. From "The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd"

4.    "The Best Thing That Ever Has Happened."  With Alec Baldwin.  From "Road Show." 

5.    "Any Moment Now."  With Hugh Jackman.  From an unproduced version of "Smile

6.    "Anything You Can Do." With Melissa McCarthy. From "Annie Get Your Gun

7.    "Pure Imagination."  With Seth MacFarlane.  Written for the motion picture WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY

8.    "Take Me To The World."  With Antonio Banderas.  From "Evening Primrose." 

9.    "I'll Be Seeing You"/ "I've Grown Accustomed To Your Face."  With Chris Pine.  From "Right This Way"/ "My Fair Lady

10. "Climb Ev'ry Mountain."  With Jamie Foxx.  From "The Sound of Music

 

Additional Streisand tracks available on the Target deluxe edition:

1.    "I Didn't Know What Time It Was."  From "Too Many Girls"

2.    "Not A Day Goes By."  From Tony nominated "Merrily We Roll Along

3.    "Fifty Percent."  From "Ballroom

4.    "Losing My Mind."   From "Follies

 

More Information:

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/barbra-streisand-to-release-encore-movie-partners-sing-broadway-album-august-26th-300282903.html#continue-jump


 

[Anshel2]

Not impressed with either her singing partners or her choice of songs.  Pure Imagination is a cheat-it's a movie song.  I'd rather she sung with Broadway performers - Lupone, Ball, Peters, Foster, McDonald, etc than movie stars who can carry a tune.

[10086sunset]

The song list is random, the partners even more random. 

[Anshel2]

Missed opportunity to finally get a Midler/Streisand duet.  Could've done a Hello Dolly song.  That would be worth the price of the album.

[JayG 2]

So someone identified the shows of tracks 4,5,and 6. Thanks , now what is the Target Edition? and where do you get it? At Target stores everywhere?

[Anshel2]

I believe track 4 is from Bounce.  6 doesn't look likes identified yet.

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Probably a Gypsy teaser.

[BrockMButler]

Has anyone heard the "At the Ballet" first listen they just put out? Daisy and Anne sound nice but Babs singing that number is ridiculous to the point of high camp. I'm picturing her "Sheila" and just about pissing myself. Herein lies the problem with her Gypsy "casting". The woman has ZERO self awareness.

http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/FIRST-LISTEN-Barbra-Streisand-Sings-At-the-Ballet-ft-Anne-Hathaway-Encore-Pre-Order-Tracklist-20160610
 
 

[sng]

I'm not sure how I feel about At The Ballet. I hate the hijack of Maggie's final high belt. Babs should've let Anne finish it on her own. 

[CindersGolightly]

How much do you want to bet that track six is a "Hamilton" number?

[kofler22]

Track 6 is ANYTHING YOU CAN DO from Annie get your Gun, with Melissa Maccarthy....

[CindersGolightly]

Huh, it seems you're correct. I wonder why it isn't listed on iTunes. That'll be fun!

[phan24]

I couldn't help but laugh at 'At the Ballet', not in the best way

[mamaleh]

I've read that Track 5 with Hugh Jackman is from an unproduced version of SMILE.

[madbrian]

That version of At The Ballet is awful, particularly Babs stealing the crescendo.

[WayTooBroadway]

But more interesting to note: Daisy Ridley auditioning for the Gypsy movie.

[CindersGolightly]

She'd be such an interesting choice for Lousie. I really hope the film pans out.

[Mrtrobz]

If they ever do a Wicked movie then Daisy would be good for Nessa,

[gypsy101]

the track was painful. I feel like this album may finally be proof that she simply can't sing Gypsy (unless those rumors of her having recorded the entire score in the 1980's is true). the setup was forced and awkward, and the only one I found to be believable was Anne Hathaway (I still just think she's fantastic). Daisy was just okay I thought, though I think she could work as Louise (it's doesn't take a vocalist like Laura Benanti). Barbra was blah and her stealing part of Maggie's big moment (but not the big note since I doubt she can sing that high E anymore) was distasteful. Plus, the only thing more questionable than that track listing is her singing partners. I've loved her for many years, but this album looks like it will be The Movie Album part 2.

[Bettyboy72]

These albums are just awful. Her collaborations are vampiric in that she tries to seek out people who will raise the profile of her album. The pairings are not based in any logical realm (like seeking out real Broadway stars). Its sad she has devolved into these terrible albums. I miss the days of her choosing gorgeous songs that suit her and just singing them without hype.

And don't get me started on that cover.

[BWAY Baby2]

Looking forward to this- Loving You is a great song- know I will enjoy it.  Personally I cannot wait to hear this CD.

[jo]

She has been planning to record ANY MOMENT NOW since she learned about the passing of her friend Marvin Hamlisch  in 2012--

 

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/aug/10/entertainment/la-et-cm-barbra-streisand-marvin-hamlisch-20120810

 

"She also wanted to tell him how thrilled she was with “Any Moment Now,” a song Hamlisch had written with Carolyn Leigh for an early version of the 1986 musical, “Smile.” A friend of Streisand’s had recently sent her the tune.

“I was going to tell him that I am doing it on my next album -- a duets album that won’t be released for a while. I heard it and said this is going to be a great duet with somebody from the theater -- it’s brilliant.”  "

[sabrelady]

Bettyboy72 said: " Her collaborations are vampiric in that she tries to seek out people who will raise the profile of her album. The pairings are not based in any logical realm (like seeking out real Broadway stars). Its sad she has devolved into these terrible albums. I miss the days of her choosing gorgeous songs that suit her and just singing them without hype.

And don't get me started on that cover.

 

 

Agree.

 

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[QueenAlice]

People have got to stop with the rumor that she 'recorded the score to GYPSY in the 1980s' in some private recording studio.  It's so ridiculous an idea I can't believe that people actually think that's true. 

My guess the root of that rumor is that in his Sondheim Book, Craig Zadan mentions that Barbra tried a few tracks integrating "Rose's Turn"  and "Some People" for her original Broadway Album, but that it didn't work and she didn't include them on the finished recording.  

In the same book. he quotes Streisand as saying that she was approached in the 1980s about playing Rose in a new version of GYPSY and that she read the script and 'just heard Ethel Merman all over again.'    Her desire to play the role has clearly changed over time, but given that statement, there is absolutely no reason to believe she would have recorded the entire score to GYPSY. "just in case" she wanted to play the role decades later.   It's as absurd as all the rumors stating that Streisand campaigned to play EVITA on film, when she's gone on record as saying she hated the show and had zero interest in it.

As for this new recording -- it's designed to cater to the same tastes that buy Susan Boyle and Josh Groban. Definitely not true Broadway fans.

 

[lovebwy]

Yes, that rumor that she "recorded the score" is so dumb. It's like someone just said it out of wishful thinking and it became true. And, how ridiclous would it look, her lip synching to tracks that were recorded 30 years ago?

That version of At the Ballet is simply atrocious. The reworked dialogue is painful. Barbra's voice, no longer like butter, sounds guttural at this point.

And, I'm sorry, but Daisy Ridley seems to have no grasp of what the song is about.

Terrible, terrible.

 

 

 

[smidge]

I would have loved for Barbra and Bette to record Anything You Can Do.