Legs 1 | ||
Start date December 31, 1993 (1993-12-31) End date September 28, 1994 (1994-09-28) No. of shows 22 in North America
4 in Europe
26 Total Box office $54.9 million ($88.71 in 2017 dollars) | ||
Barbra Streisand in Concert is Barbra Streisand's First full tour which ran from 1993 through 1994. The tour consisted of 26 shows starting on New Year's Eve 1993 in Las Vegas and ended Anaheim, California in July 1994. The 18 shows that went on sale following the new year concerts in Las Vegas sold out in 1 hour. This tour was also the first time Barbra toured anywhere in Europe and was the last until her Streisand: The Tour in 2006.
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Background
Until this tour Barbra had only toured once in 1966, where she cut an initially planned 20 city tour, to 4 dates, due to her pregnancy. Although she has sung concerts this was her first tour after a suggested 28 year bout of Stage Fright.
Commercial reception
According to Barbra's official website. The tour set attendance and box office records in every city it played in with the first 18 dates selling out within 1 hour. The phone requests for tickets reached 5 million within the first hour the tour went on sale. The tour grossed $50 million in 1994.
Broadcasts and recordings
Barbra: The Concert was broadcast on HBO August 21, 1994 and received a television audience of 11.2 million viewers and became the highest-rated musical event in HBO’s history. It was later released on VHS and Laserdisc (a DVD of the show was later released in 2009). A live album The Concert was also released in 1994 and was composed of songs from the New York City concert series at Madison Square Garden, where it reached number 10 on the Billboard Album Chart and was certified 3x Platinum by the RIAA. Recordings by Shawn Murphy, David Hewitt and Dave Ritsus on Remote Recording Services' Silver Truck.
In 2004, Sony BMG released a DVD version of the New Year's Eve Concert in Las Vegas entitled The Concert: Live at the MGM Grand which was previously unreleased.
Set list
Set list per official DVD track listing.