Streisand / LIVE 

BROOKLYN CONCERT NOTES



• Celebrities in the audience 10/11/12: Barbara Walters, Woody Allen, Michael Douglas, Sting, Ralph Lauren, Michael Kors, Rosie O'Donnell, Regis and Joy Philbin, Gerard Butler, Donna Karan, Elliott Gould, Roslyn Kind, Mayor Ed Koch, Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Gary Smith.
• Celebrities in the audience 10/13/12: Liza Minnelli, Robert Osborne, John Travolta & Kelly Preston, Roslyn Kind, Rev. Al Sharpton, Gayle King.
• Streisand filmed both concert nights and the footage became the TV special and DVD release Barbra: Back to Brooklyn.
• Streisand told the 10/11 crowd she woke up with a cold and that she was drinking chicken soup in her mug.
• Some patter from 10/11: Streisand to a fan in a Barbra T-shirt — "You buy it in the shop? It's cheaper online," she said, as people laughed. She looked to another in the crowd: "You look like Dick Cheney. See this is what happens when I see the audience, it's not good."
• On 10/13, Jason Gould remarked that he and his mother had #1-selling releases that night. "We're Number One in Brooklyn, Mom!" "Oh, no," she said. "Not just Brooklyn. We're Number One in more places than Brooklyn!"

“As If We Never Said Goodbye”



(Song by: Andrew Lloyd Webber & Don Black; Special Lyrics by Jay Landers & Charlie Midnight... with links to explain the local references)



I don't know why I'm frightened, I know my way around here
The Brooklyn docks, the Nova lox, the sound here
Yes, a world with hot knishes is incredibly delicious
And I need a moment—“So, talk amongst yourselves, I'm getting verklempt!”

The whispered conversations of neighbors down the hallways
The atmosphere is shrilling here as always
Hear the early morning mumbling as the garbage trucks go rumbling
Why, everything's as if I never said goodbye

Somehow I have always known the past is never past
Now I've waited long enough, I've come home at last!

I still remember Garfield's, a dollar bought you dinner
Those days gone by when I was so much thinner!
And I cannot overstate it I'm so glad I graduated
From good 'ol Erasmus

In any crowd we stand out, we're Brooklyn's sons and daughters
If you ask me it just might be the waters!
They will never call us humdrum cause we're proud of where we come from
And everything's as if I never said goodbye

Yes, everything's as if I never said goodbye

“You’re the Top”  10/11 and 10/13 Special Lyrics



(Song by: Cole Porter; Special Lyrics by Jay Landers & Charlie Midnight... with links to explain the local references)



You’re the top! 

You’re the silk and satin.

You’re the top! You can keep Manhattan.

Give me Bedford Stuy and a cool rap by Jay-Z

You’re a Maharaja, a Brooklyn Dodger, you’re family.

 

You’re the art in an old museum.

You’re the taste of cold egg cream.

You’re a Brooklyn Net on a private jet, non-stop!

Come on baby, there’s no maybe, you’re the top!

You’re the town that begat Judge Judy, Lena Horne, and of course yours truly

You are Danny Kaye, Houdini and Mae West

You are Cracker Jacks like the great Koufax 

Baby, you’re the best!

You’re the shine on Liz Taylor’s ring.

You’re the crown on my Loew’s Kings.

You’re a Brooklyn Height and an all-night coffee shop.

Listen, baby, there’s no maybe, you’re the top!

You’re the top!

You’re a Brooklyn trolley.

You’re the top ... of a hot bialy

Talkin’ Brooklynese, sayin’ “dese and dem’s and dose.”

You’re a Rolls Royce dealer, a wonder wheeler, you’re vintage clothes!

You’re the top!

Brighton Beach boardwalker.

You’re the top! You are a real straight-talker

And you know it’s true, it’s an accent you can’t drop.

Hey there, Brooklyn, you’re good lookin’

I smell Chinese food a-cookin’

I’m so glad I took this bookin’

Cause you’re the top!