Streisand Specials to be Released on DVD, Nov. 22, and Shown on PBS
By: BWW News Desk Oct. 10, 2005
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Streisand shot 1965's "My Name is Barbra" in a small studio down the street from the Winter Garden Theatre, where she was starring in Funny Girl; the special included a medley of her hit songs, such as "People," "Happy Days Are Here Again" and "My Man." "Color Me Barbra," which followed the next year, featured the star in such guises Marie Antoinette and Nefertiti in a sequence shot in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It also included Streisand performing skits and songs. In "A Happening in Central Park," Streisand performed in front of over 130,000 people. The 1967 concert was broadcast in 1968 in the same week that the film version of Funny Girl premiered. Also from 1967 and directed by Joe Layton (who co-directed "My Name is Barbra"), "The Belle of 14th Street," utilizes a vaudeville theatre setting to showcase the star singing such numbers as "I Don't Care" and "Nobody But Me," as well as "Liebstrom;" she also performs as The Tempest's Miranda opposite guest star Jason Robards Jr. In 1973's "Barbra Streisand...And Other Musical Instruments," the star breezes through a range of standards, gospel and songs from her films; she appears as a Saks Fifth Avenue clothes horse wearing the costumes of a Spanish Flameco dancer and a belly dancer in one sequence. She also duetted with Ray Charles on "Crying Time."
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