Barbra Streisand Wants Alec Baldwin for GYPSY Lead & More Fun Facts We Learned from TONIGHT SHOW Appearance

Barbra Streisand and Alec Baldwin were featured for the full hour on last night's TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON. During the appearance, Streisand and Fallon performed a comedic duet in which Fallon portrayed Donald Trump. Together they "made duets great again!" Later, Baldwin and Streisand performed their duet "The Best Thing That Ever Has Happened" from Stephen Sondheim's ROAD SHOW. The song is featured on Streisand's new album "ENCORE: Movie Partners Sing Broadway" dropping today, August 26th.

In between performances, Streisand and Baldwin bantered about recording their duet and shared amusing anecdotes and fun facts. Among them:

Does Babs have an all-time favorite duet partner? The EGOT winner says no, and compares the question to "picking which child you like better"

Despite Streisand telling Fallon he has "a very good voice", he confesses he would never do a Broadway musical, but would be up for a Streisand Talk Show Duets album.

Streisand praised Baldwin's talents and revealed to the audience, "You know I wanted you as my leading man in GYPSY."

Asked how she chose her duet partners for her latest album, the Grammy winner explains, "I asked myself 'what movie actors would I love to work with?' and then I asked them if they'd like to do duets with me." She adds, "And they said 'yes'" (well duh!)

After a half century of people mispronouncing her last name, Streisand decided to take matters into her own hands. "I said I gotta do something about this. I mean 50 years, don't you know how to say my name right?" So she went right to the "top of the heap" and called the head of Apple, Tim Cook, requesting that he correct the way Siri pronounces her name. Said the singer, "If you don't ask, you can't get right?"

What was your favorite moment from last night's appearance?

"ENCORE" features 10 new Streisand duets of Broadway classics with some of the biggest stars in Hollywood. The inspired new musical pairings include Alec Baldwin, Antonio Banderas,Jamie Foxx, Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, Seth MacFarlane, Melissa McCarthy,Chris Pine,Daisy Ridley, Patrick Wilson, and a spectacular virtual duet with Anthony Newley.

Streisand is the only artist ever to receive Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Grammy, Directors Guild of America, Golden Globe, National Medal of Arts and Peabody Awards and France's Légion d'Honneur as well as the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award. She is also the first female film director to receive the KENNEDY Center Honors. In 2015, President Barack Obama presented her with the highest civilian honor the United States bestows, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

She won Oscars for both Best Actress ("Funny Girl") and Best Original Song (for her composition of "Evergreen" which has since become a standard.) She also was nominated for Best Actress for "The Way We Were." The three films she directed received 14 Oscar nominations. Her recordings have earned her ten Grammy Awards, including and Grammy's Lifetime Achievement and Legend Awards.

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