Live in Concert 2006

Infobox Album |
Name = Live in Concert 2006
Type = Live album
Artist = Barbra Streisand


Released = flagicon|USA 8 May 2007
flagicon|Australia 28 May 2007
Recorded = 9 - 30 October 2006
Madison Square Garden, N.Y.C.
Verizon Center, Washington, D.C.
BankAtlantic, Fort Lauderdale
Genre = Pop
Length = 90:01
Label = Columbia
Producer = Barbra Streisand
Jay Landers
Reviews =
Last album = "Guilty Pleasures"
(2005)
This album = "Live in Concert 2006"
(2007)
Next album =

"Live in Concert 2006" is a live album by Barbra Streisand which was recorded during her record setting 2006 U.S. tour known as . The double album contains songs recorded at different shows and venues including New York's Madison Square Garden and Washington DC's Verizon Center. Three songs Streisand performed live on the tour with Il Divo are featured on the album. [cite news | first = | last = | title = Columbia Records Announces the Release of 'Live In Concert 2006,' the New Album from Barbra Streisand | url = http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=ind_focus.story&STORY=/www/story/03-28-2007/0004555420&EDATE=WED+Mar+28+2007,+03:43+PM | work = | publisher = | date = 2007-03-28 | accessdate = 2007-05-29 | language = | quote = ]

The album peaked at number 7 on the Billboard 200 on 26 May 2007. [cite news | first = | last = | title = Billboard.com - Artist Chart History - Barbra Streisand | url = http://billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.chartFormatGroupName=Albums&model.vnuArtistId=3629&model.vnuAlbumId=812651 | work = | publisher = Billboard magazine | date = 2007-06-02 | accessdate = 2007-05-29 | language = | quote = ]

Track listing

Disc 1: Act I

# "Funny Girl Broadway Overture" (Jule Styne) – 4:47
# "Starting Here, Starting Now" (music by David Shire, lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr.) – 2:57
# "Opening Remarks" – 1:33
# "Down With Love" (music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by E.Y. Harburg) – 3:57
# "The Way We Were" (music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman) – 3:48
# "Songwriting (Dialogue)" – 1:53
# "Ma Première Chanson" (music by Barbra Streisand, lyrics by Eddy Marnay) – 2:37
# "Evergreen" (with Il Divo) (music by Streisand, lyrics by Paul Williams) – 4:05
# "Come Rain or Come Shine" (music by Arlen, lyrics by Johnny Mercer) – 3:09
# "Funny Girl (Dialogue)" – 0:52
# "Funny Girl" (music by Styne, lyrics by Bob Merrill) – 2:32
# "The Music That Makes Me Dance" (Styne, Merrill) – 1:37
# "My Man" (Jacques Charles, Channing Pollock, Albert Willemetz, Maurice Yvain) – 3:28
# "People (Dialogue)" – 0:29
# "People" (Styne, Merrill) – 5:08

=Disc 2: Act II=
# "Entr'acte" – 3:37
# "The Music of the Night" (with Il Divo) (music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Charles Hart) – 4:16
# "Jason's Theme" (Jason Gould) – 1:14
# "Carefully Taught / Children Will Listen" (music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II / Stephen Sondheim) – 3:29
# "Unusual Way" (Maury Yeston) – 3:33
# "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" (music by Michel LeGrand, lyrics by Bergman & Bergman) – 3:58
# "Happy Days Are Here Again" (music by Milton Ager, lyrics by Jack Yellen) – 2:31
# "(Have I Stayed) Too Long at the Fair?" (Billy Barnes) – 4:45
# "William Saroyan (Dialogue)" – 1:40
# "The Time of Your Life" (William Saroyan) – 1:00
# "A Cockeyed Optimist" (Rodgers, Hammerstein) – 2:28
# "Somewhere (Dialogue)" – 1:13
# "Somewhere" (with Il Divo) (music by Sondheim, lyrics by Leonard Bernstein) – 3:34
# "My Shining Hour" (Arlen, Mercer) – 4:31
# "Don't Rain On My Parade (Reprise)" (Styne, Merrill) – 3:30
# "Smile" (music by Charlie Chaplin, lyrics by John Turner & Geoffrey Parsons) – 4:26

Bonus Tracks

*"When the Sun Comes Out" (music by Arlen, lyrics by Ted Koehler)
**Available on Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition
*"Stoney End" (Laura Nyro)
*"Don't Rain On My Parade" (Styne, Merrill) from Funny Girl suite in Act I
**Available on Target Exclusive Edition

Trivia

*The album is dedicated to Streisand's friend, Evelyn Ostin, who died in October 2005. Ostin's death was previously mentioned during an interview with Streisand on The Ellen DeGeneres Show which aired on 24 October 2005 as part of the promotion for her previous album, "Guilty Pleasures".
*Disc 2, Track 3, "Jason's Theme" was composed by her son, Jason Gould.

References