Timeless (Barbra Streisand)

Timeless
Promotional poster for tour
Tour by Barbra Streisand
Start date	December 31, 1999 (1999-12-31)
End date	September 28, 2000 (2000-09-28)
Legs	1
Shows	6 in North America 4 in Australia 10 Total
Barbra Streisand tour chronology
Barbra Streisand in Concert (1994) Timeless (1999-2000) Streisand (2006-07)

Timeless^[1] is a tour by entertainer Barbra Streisand. Following her hotly anticipated Millennium Concert 1999/2000 (which is cited as being part of this tour) Barbra decided to take this concert on the road for an 8 day tour of Australia, Los Angeles & New York.^[2] The tour grossed a record breaking $70 million and drew audiences of 200,000 for only 10 dates.

History

The tour was directed by Streisand and Kenny Ortega and was originally set to be solely a Millennium concert with 2 concerts seeing in the year 2000. The dates were released in April and all tickets sold out within a few hours of going on sale.^[3]Following the success of the millennium concert, Barbra decided to take the tour on the road and visited Australia for the first time and included Melbourne and Sydney before heading back to America for 4 other concerts in Los Angeles and New York. Although there were only 10 days the tour lasted 9 months.

Set list

Act one

1. "Opening/You'll Never Know" (with Lauren Frost, Alec Ledd, and Randee Heller) (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon)
2. "Something's Coming" (with Lauren Frost) (Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim)
3. "The Way We Were" (Marvin Hamlisch, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman)
4. "Shirley MacLaine Y1K" (dialogue)
5. "Cry Me a River" (Arthur Hamilton)
6. "Lover, Come Back To Me" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmund Romberg)
7. "A Sleepin' Bee" (Harold Arlen, Truman Capote)
8. "Miss Marmelstein" (Harold Rome)
9. "I'm the Greatest Star/Second Hand Rose/Don't Rain on My Parade" (Jule Styne, Bob Merrill / Grant Clarke, J.F. Hanly / Styne, Merrill)
10. "Something Wonderful/Being Alive" (Rodgers and Hammerstein / Sondheim)
11. "As Time Goes By"/"Speak Low" (Herman Hupfeld / Kurt Weill, Ogden Nash)
12. "Alfie" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David)
13. "Evergreen" (Streisand, Paul Williams)
14. "Dialogue" (Father, Part #1)
15. "Papa, Can You Hear Me?/You'll Never Know" (with Lauren Frost) (Michel Legrand, A. Bergman, M. Bergman / Warren, Gordon)
16. "A Piece of Sky" (with Lauren Frost) (Legrand, A. Bergman, M. Bergman)

Act two

1. "Entr'acte" (Hamlisch)
2. "Putting It Together" (Sondheim)
3. "On A Clear Day (You Can See Forever)" (Alan Jay Lerner, Burton Lane)
4. "Send in the Clowns" (Sondheim)
5. "Happy Days Are Here Again/Get Happy" (with Judy Garland)/"Guilty" (with Barry Gibb)/"I Finally Found Someone" (with Bryan Adams)/"Tell Him" (with Celine Dion)/"You Don't Bring Me Flowers" (with Neil Diamond)" (Milton Ager, Jack Yellen / Arlen, Ted Koehler / B. Gibb, Maurice Gibb, Robin Gibb / Adams, Hamlisch, Robert Lange / Linda Thompson, Walter Afanasieff, David Foster / Diamond, A. Bergman, M. Bergman)
6. "Sing" (with Jason Gould)/"I've Got a Crush on You" (with Frank Sinatra) (Joe Raposo / George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
7. "Technology" (Dialogue)
8. "The Clicker Blues" (Hamlisch, A. Bergman, M. Bergman)
9. "Simple Pleasures" (Hamlisch, A. Bergman, M. Bergman)
10. "The Main Event/Fight" (Paul Jabara, Bruce Roberts / Jabara, Bob Esty)
11. "Dialogue" (Father, Part #2)
12. "I've Dreamed of You" (Rolf Løvland, Ann Hampton Callaway)
13. "At the Same Time" (Callaway)
14. "Auld Lang Syne (Ballad)" (adapted by Robert Burns)
15. "Dialogue" (Barbra and Brother Time)
16. "People" (Styne, Merrill)
17. "New Year's Eve/Auld Lang Syne" (Celebration) *
18. "Everytime You Hear Auld Lang Syne" (Barbra/Audience) (Hamlisch, A. Bergman, M. Bergman) *
19. "Happy Days Are Here Again" (Ager, Yellen)
20. "Don't Like Goodbyes" (Arlen, Capote)
21. "I Believe/Somewhere" (with Lauren Frost) (Ervin Drake, Irvin Graham, Jimmy Shirl, Al Stillman / Bernstein, Sondheim)

• New Year's Eve Concert Only

Tour dates

Box office score data

Broadcasts and recordings

The week before the final concerts Columbia Records released a 2-disc CD of the millennium concert entitled Timeless: Live in Concert which entered the US Billboard charts at number 21 and was certified Platinum by the RIAA.^[4] This CD includes a credit listing Sydney Philharmonia Choirs who recorded backing tracks in March 2000 (the weekend after their live performances with Barbra in Sydney) that were included in this 'live' album. February 2001 saw the release of Timeless the DVD which debuted at Number 1 on the Billboard Top Music Video Sales chart and has been certified Platinum by the RIAA.^[5]

Personnel

NOTE: Some performers do not appear in person.

• Bryan Adams – vocals
• Robert L. Adcock – celli
• Louis Armstrong – trumpet
• Steve Becknell – french horn
• Douglas Besterman – arranger
• Chris Bishop – engineer
• Peggie Blu – backing vocals
• Chris Boardman – arranger
• Ralph Burns – arranger, adaptation
• Jorge Calandrelli – arranger
• Darius Campo – violin
• Chris Carlton – engineer
• Jon Clarke – woodwind
• John Clayton – arranger
• Don Costa – arranger
• Joe Covello – photography
• Debbie Datz-Pyle – contractor
• Mario de Leon – violin
• Neil Diamond – vocals
• Celine Dion – vocals
• Chuck Domanico – bass
• Bruce Dukov – violin
• Sam Emerson – photography
• Martin Erlichman – executive producer
• Bob Esty – arranger, conductor
• David Ewart – violin
• Peter Fletcher – product manager
• David Foster – arranger
• Bruce Fowler – trombone
• Ian Freebairn-Smith – arranger
• Lauren Frost – vocals
• Matt Funes – viola
• Judy Garland – vocals
• Barry Gibb – vocals
• Phil Gitomer – technical manager
• Savion Glover – actor
• Mark Graham – librarian
• Gary Grant – trumpet
• Dan Greco – percussion
• Henry Grossman – photography
• Marvin Hamlisch – arranger, director
• Jack Hayes – arranger
• Gwen Heller – violin
• Randee Heller – vocals
• Ryan Hewitt – assistant engineer
• Jerry Hey – trumpet
• Dan Higgins – woodwind
• Jim Hoffman – librarian
• Rupert Holmes – arranger
• Carrie Holzman-Little – viola
• Paul Jabara – arranger
• Bruce Jackson – sound design
• Ron Jannelli – woodwind
• Alan Kaplan – trombone
• Eddie Karam – arranger
• Suzie Katayama – celli
• Steve Khan – narrator
• Jay Landers – executive producer
• Alec Ledd – vocals
• Annie Leibovitz – photography
• Brian Leonard – violin
• Warren Leuning – trumpet
• Gayle Levant – harp
• Dane Little – celli
• Charles Loper – trombone
• Jeremy Lubbock – arranger
• Stephen Marcussen – mastering
• Nick Marshall – mixing
• Peter Matz – arranger, producer
• Kevin Mazur – photography
• Ed Meares – bass
• Don Mischer – producer
• Suzette Moriarty – French horn
• Horia Moroaica – violin
• Ralph Morrison – concert master
• Peter Morse – lighting design, lighting director
• Dan Newfeld – viola
• Robin Olson – violin
• Kenny Ortega – writer, assistant director
• Marty Paich – arranger
• Dean Parks – guitar
• Joel Peskin – woodwind
• Barbara Porter – violin
• Sid Ramin – arranger
• Tom Ranier – keyboards
• Gabrielle Raumberger – art direction, design
• Dave Reitzas – mixing
• Nelson Riddle – arranger
• Bruce Roberts – arranger
• Gil Romero – violin
• William James Ross – arranger
• Randee Saint Nicholas – photography
• Mark Sazer – violin
• Walter Scharf – arranger
• Harry Shirinian – viola
• John Simpson – engineer
• Frank Sinatra – vocals
• Kim Skalecki – assistant
• Lew Soloff – trumpet
• Michael Starobin – arranger
• Barbra Streisand – director, vocals, producer, writer
• Neil Stubenhaus – electric bass
• Shari Sutcliffe – project coordinator
• Karen Swenson – consultant, photo research
• Phil Teele – trombone
• Alberto Tolot – photography
• Bob Tricarico – woodwind
• Charles Valentino – actor
• Fred Vogler – engineer
• Jürgen Vollmer – photography
• Randy Waldman – arranger, keyboards
• Brad Warnaar – French horn
• Phil Yao – French horn
• Ken Yerke – violin
• Firooz Zahedi – photography, cover photo
• Patty Zimmitti – contractor
• Robert Zimmitti – percussion
• Torrie Zito – arranger

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