GOLDEN OLD

She rose to fame while starring on Broadway in I Can Get It For You Wholesale in 1962, and then as comedienne Fanny Brice in the Broadway production of Funny Girl in 1964, earning Tony nominations for both turns. She went on to win an Oscar for her starring role in the film version of Funny Girl, a movie that marked her movie debut.

Her new album marks a return to roots – her very first album, 1963’s The Barbra Streisand Album, which took Grammy Awards for album of the year and best female vocal performance, featured several Broadway standards.

In 1985 Streisand released The Broadway Album and in 1993, Back to Broadway. Both albums acquired multi-platinum status.

With the release of her last album, Partners, Streisand has had 33 albums make the Top 10 on the US charts. She is on record as the only female artist to have achieved this milestone, tying her with Frank Sinatra.

With 10 albums, Streisand is the female artist with the most number one albums in Billboard’s history.

Show songs featured on Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway include At the Ballet, from A Chorus Line, a song also featuring Les Miserables star Anne Hathaway and English actress Daisy Ridley, who played Rey in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, last year’s highest-grossing film.

Also on the album are Loving You with Patrick Wilson, a song from Stephen Sondheim’s Passion; Who Can I Turn To? with the late Anth from The Roar of the Greasep Smell of the Crowd; and The That Ever Has Happened, wi Baldwin, from the Stephen S John Weidman musical, Roa Other highlights are Any Now with Hugh from an unprod version of Smi Hamlisch; Any Can Do with co Melissa McCa Annie Get You Imagination w McFarlane, fr Wonka and th Factory; and T The World wi Banderas, fro called Evenin

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