Streisand Announced First Live Tour In Decade
October 4, 2006 12:18 a.m. EST
Megan Shannon - All Headline News Staff Writer
(AHN) - Barbara Streisand will hit the road for her first live tour in a decade -- something she said she would never do again.
The Grammy winning singer and Oscar-winning actress will tour 16 cities and give 20 performances -- the biggest tour of her career.
Not only is she expected to rake in $90 million from the tour she has also pledged about $10 million of the proceeds to her favorite charities, including $1 million to former President Bill Clinton's Climate Change Initiative. She also plans to donate to health and education charities.
Ray Waddell of Billboard magazine said, "She's an icon It's kind of like the Super Bowl of concerts, particularly for her fans. You don't get a lot of chances of see Barbra Streisand live. She doesn't tour very frequently at all, and when she does, it's a limited engagement."
And fans are willing to pay the price for what could be a once in a lifetime opportunity. Average ticket prices for her concert is $275 but individual seats can cost nearly $800. Seats for her last tour in 1993-94 sold as high as $350. The tour brought in $60 million gross.
Gary Bongiovanni, editor of concert trade publication Pollstar said, "It could be that her core fans who looked at her tour in '94 and again in 2000 as ... the chance of a lifetime to see her have opened their wallets and done it once and aren't as ready to do it again."
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