For the next performance on April 25th – a show that benefited The Prince's Trust and the Children's Variety Club of Great Britain – one fan reported that the prompters were turned off, except at one moment when Barbra apparently lost her train of thought and asked the prompter man to turn them on.
Prince Charles attended the April 25th show and sat in the royal box. Barbra sang “Someday My Prince Will Come,” introducing it by saying, “What makes this song extra special is that there’s a real one in the audience tonight.”
According to Rick Starr, manager of Hollywood Sheet Music, Barbra's tribute to the Prince started with a call to his store, asking for the sheet music to be faxed to the U.K. It was such a rush job, Starr explained, that Streisand's staff waited on the other end of the line, snatching up the pages as they came through. “The next day I read in the paper that she sang the song to the Prince of Wales,” Starr said. “In a way, I was there.”
(This story doesn't quite ring true, since Barbra had already sung a version of “Prince” in Las Vegas, which had been orchestrated for that show and recorded.)
Charles led the audience in a standing ovation after she finished the song. He also went backstage and met with Streisand, Marvin Hamlisch and Marty Erlichman at a champagne reception. Other celebs attending that night: Holly Hunter, Joan Collins, Lulu and Priscilla Presley.
Can you imagine being at that show when Streisand delivered her monologue about meeting Prince Charles in the 1970s and saying that if she'd been nicer to him, she could have been “the first real Jewish princess!” Hilarious.
One more change in the show happened on April 25th – Barbra added “Somewhere” as her closing song.
The concert underwent more modifications in London:
- Streisand utilized a different line (supplied by Stephen Sondheim) in “I'm Still Here”: “If she won't cap her teeth, she should cap her nose” was replaced with “As for the nose, it's like Cyrano's.”
- Barbra deleted “Once Upon A Dream” from the Disney medley.
- Barbra premiered her “Yentl” medley, singing along with the video of herself on “Piece of Sky.”