{"id":3101,"date":"2017-04-29T15:03:11","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T15:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/?p=3101"},"modified":"2018-08-23T18:38:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T18:38:39","slug":"diva-alert-10-barbra-streisand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/diva-alert-10-barbra-streisand\/","title":{"rendered":"Diva Alert #10: Barbra Streisand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Diva Alert #10: Barbra Streisand<\/h3>\n \"\"<\/a><\/span>

Written by Jackson Upperco<\/p>\n

April 28, 2017<\/p>\n<\/font>

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Welcome back to Diva Alert, Performer Stuff\u2019s series on Great Dames from the Golden Age of Broadway. In these posts, we\u2019re taking a look at some of the American Musical Theatre\u2019s most legendary ladies, along with their seminal stage triumphs.<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

This dame only starred in two Broadway musicals, but one of them was so iconic that, to many theatre fans, she goes by the title \u201cQueen of the Divas.\u201d She\u2019s said to have an ego bigger than God\u2019s, a nose bigger than Durante\u2019s, and a voice bigger than Judy\u2019s. She is\u2026 Barbra Streisand.<\/p>\n

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Brooklyn to Broadway may not seem very far on a map, but it took young Barbara Streisand nearly two decades to transition from PS 89 PTA songbird to Shubert Theatre chanteuse. Her first break finally came in 1960, when 18-year-old Streisand won a Greenwich Village talent contest and toured the local Manhattan nightclub circuit, where she dropped her second \u201ca\u201d and became, simply, Barbra.<\/p>\n

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In 1962, Streisand, with a new first name but the same distinguished schnoz, made her Broadway debut in David Merrick\u2019s I Can Get It For You Wholesale<\/em>, where her numbers routinely stopped the show. A star was born. By the time she was headlining as the famed Fanny Brice in Funny Girl <\/em>(1964), her best-known role, Streisand had released three solo albums and won two Grammys.<\/p>\n

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Although this would be her final Broadway musical, Streisand has continued to display her talents in a succession of albums, concert tours, television specials, and film roles \u2013 beginning with the 1968 adaptation of Funny Girl<\/em>, for which she won an Academy Award, and going on to include the screen version of Hello, Dolly! <\/em>(1969), the classic screwball comedy What\u2019s Up Doc? <\/em>(1972), the romantic The Way We Were <\/em>(1974), and the memorable remake of A Star Is Born <\/em>(1976), for which the leading lady won her second Oscar.<\/p>\n

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As of today, Streisand has recorded 35 studio albums, won ten Grammys, received nine Golden Globes, and embarked on six concert tours. Her clarion voice is iconic, her Brooklynite personality immense; Barbra Streisand is the very definition of a diva \u2013 a Queen, indeed. The only thing bigger than her nose, her ego, and her voice? Her legend.<\/p>\n

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DID YOU KNOW? <\/strong>An underground mall in Streisand\u2019s basement has inspired an Off-Broadway play called Buyer And Cellar.<\/em> (Get it?!)<\/p>\n

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Streisand Roles You Should Know<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Miss Marmelstein in I Can Get It For You Wholesale <\/em>(1962)<\/h4>\n