Barbra Streisand has added four new dates to her highly anticipated North American tour, performing for fans in Columbusat the Schottenstein Center on October 6th, Montreal's Bell Centre on October 15th, The Air Canada Centre in Toronto on October 17th and Minneapolis' Xcel Energy Center on October 24th. The tour, featuring special guest
Il Divo, will kick off October 4th in Philadelphia at the Wachovia Center. This tour will mark her first time performing in Toronto and Montreal.
Streisand is the top-selling female recording artist of our time. Her numbers are exceeded only by
Elvis Presley. The tour marks her first national schedule since 1994.
Il Divo has become the most successful International musical break-out story of the past few years, selling more than 12 million albums. The group has garnered some 80 gold and platinum awards in 33 countries.
General public tickets for
Barbra Streisand's four additional dates will go on sale on August 28th.
A star for over four decades, Streisand received Tony nominations for her
Broadway debut I Can Get It For You Wholesale and for her star-making turn as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl (she
would receive a Star of the Decade, Hall of Fame Tony in 1970).
Streisand would go on to recreate the role on film for a 1969 Oscar
(she tied with Katharine Hepburn that year). She was also nominated for
her performance in The Way We Were . She received another Oscar for co-writing "Evergreen" for A Star is Born and was similarly nominated for "I Finally Found Someone" from The Mirror Has Two Faces. Other film credits include Hello, Dolly!, On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, What's Up, Doc?, Funny Lady, Nuts and Yentl. She has also produced several of her movies.
The
winner of multiple Grammy Awards, Streisand has sold many millions of records, with 50 of them gold and 30 platinum. She is also the only artist to have Billboard #1 albums spanning four
decades--the '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s. Her many albums include "Guilty," "Duets," "Higher Ground," "Memories," "Lazy Afternoon," "The Broadway Album" and "The Movie Album."
In addition to her Tony, Oscars and Grammys, Streisand has won five
Emmys, eight Golden Globes, two ASCAP Film and Television Awards, as
well as the American Film Institute Award.The tour will be presented by promoter
Michael Cohl for Concert
Productions International and The Next Adventure (A
Live Nation
Company).
Visit
www.ticketmaster.com or
www.livenation.com for tickets. Visit
www.barbranews.com for more information on Streisand.
