Streisand / LIVE 

LONG ISLAND SET LIST



ACT ONE

• Overture/Video Package
• The Way We Were
• Everything 
• Being at War with Each Other 
• You Don't Bring Me Flowers
• Enough is Enough
• Evergreen
• Being Alive 
• Children Will Listen
• Papa, Can You Hear Me?





ACT TWO



• Pure Imagination
• Encore Video Package
• Who Can I Turn To? (with Anthony Newley)
• Loving You
• Losing My Mind
• Isn't This Better?
• How Lucky Can You Get? 
• Don't Rain On My Parade
• People
• Happy Days Are Here Again



ENCORE:



• I Didn't Know What Time It Was
• Everything Must Change (dedicated to Sandy Gallin)

“All hail the Queen of Traditional Pop Music. Barbra Streisand's show at the newly-renovated Nassau Coliseum was fantastic. Her vocals were rich, sultry and heavenly, and everybody ought to get a ticket to see this living legend perform in a live setting. There were no gimmicks: just one woman with an impeccable amount of talent who was able to blow the audience away with her timeless classics and sincere storytelling ability, where she was able to take her listeners on a musical journey over the last six decades of her illustrious career. She showcased her warm, pleasant and witty personality throughout the night. Ms. Streisand is an exceptional entertainer who only gets better with age and experience. Her Nassau Coliseum concert earned five out of five stars.”

BARBRA ARCHIVES NOTES ON THIS CONCERT:

Barbra Streisand added two more concerts to her tour, The Music, The Mem’ries, The Magic. She subtitled the shows The Encore. Barbra told WNYC Radio “It is my last tour, but I don't want to say it. I mean I may sing here and there, but I'm never going to prepare something for three months again.”

In Long Island, Barbra was greeted by a standing ovation and said, “I love your accent here. Because in Brooklyn we don't have any accent.” Then she explained that she last played Long Island in 1963 at the Lido Club. “I was five years old, ya know. I can get used to these alternate facts.” Lots of audience applause at that joke. “Not really,” she added.

“I started to come here five years ago,” Barbra said with a smile, “but I got stuck in traffic on the Long Island Expressway.”

Barbra's two New York concerts closely followed the set list she performed on her 2016 mini-tour in November-December.

After singing “Everything,” a Streisand fan who probably attended every show yelled out, “Thank you for singing my favorite song!” This fan usually sits to the right of the stage and Barbra has heard her almost every time. “She follows me everywhere,” Barbra told the Long Island audience. “Where are you sitting tonight? What's your name?” The fan yelled out “Anne” and Barbra asked, “Don't you ever want to sit in the middle?”

Barbra skipped the 1970s medley for this show and, instead, joined her backup singers (Stevvi Alexander, Andrea Jones, and Amy Keys) for a fun version of “Enough is Enough.”

Barbra showed the cut scene from A Star is Born in which she played the melody to “Evergreen” on the guitar. “Ok, Barbra take a deep breath,” she said to herself on screen.

“Papa, Can You Hear Me?” continued to be a strong finish to the first act. The brilliant lighting designer, Peter Morse, had added some dramatic lightning effects to the finale.

Act Two brought some exciting changes to the show. The section about her newest album, Encore, included Barbra singing a solo version of “Loving You” (without Patrick Wilson).

Barbra said “I feel a lot of pain in this audience,” after singing the two Sondheim torch songs.

After the Funny Lady/Girl section, Barbra told the audience “I want to be sure I'm doing the right song, can I have a conversation?” After checking with her conductor, Randy Waldman, Barbra quipped, “It's been a loooong time [since she's done this show].”

Barbra asked the audience to sing along for “Happy Days”

When introducing her first encore (“I Didn't Know What Time It Was”) Barbra stated, “I like this. It's romantic and positive. One of the few songs I sing like that,” Then, before singing the ballad, she mock-sang in a comedic voice, “Oh, my man I love his sooooo.”

Barbra dedicated “Everything Must Change” to her dear friend who recently died, Sandy Gallin. She reminded the audience that she sang it on her Higher Ground album, which she dedicated to President Clinton's mother, Virginia Clinton Kelley. “This is for Sandy and Virginia. And who knows ... maybe they're listening?”

This was very moving. Tears in the house. Barbra included some new lyrics at the end of the song:

And when a soul departs

It touches many hearts

But that's the way of time

Nothing and no one goes unchanged ....

End / 2017 Concert Tour / Long Island, NY