Comments on: 6 Bizarre Barbra Streisand Performances That Are Weirdly Endearing

By: Mari

Mari — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:48:40 +0000

That vaudeville one kind of reminds me of Anita O’Day at the Newport Jazz Festival which is also wonderful and must be seen. Barbra, though!! I love her singing I’d Rather Be Blue on roller skates. It’s one of the best things on the planet.

By: Lis

Lis — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 14:56:08 +0000

Wow, only Barbra sings better You’ll Never Walk Alone than the Anfield Stadium in a match of Liverpool vs. Manchester United. #YNWA!!!

By: Kat

Kat — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:25:24 +0000

I love this post! My favourite films have to be Funny Girl, and The Way We Were where she brushes Hubble’s hair from his eyes! gah! its amazing!
My mom calls me her funny girl, and when I told her I was engaged the first thing she said to me was “Awe! My baby is going to be a Sadie!”

By: Ava

Ava — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:30:12 +0000

Good to know! Although now that she’s almost 3, she pretty much thinks all music is from Glee. Because of this thread, I asked her last night if she remembered the “People” song and she said yes and then I asked her who sings it and she said, “Glee.” Then I said, “No, it’s not from Glee. Do you remember who sings it?” and she goes, “Umm… Santana!”

I HAVE CORRUPTED MY CHILD.

By: Jasmine

Jasmine — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:25:11 +0000

OK I’m just going to be honest, as a professional musician I feel so dumb for not knowing all of this, this whole thing made my day…I had no idea Barbra was so hilarious, oh AS teach me the ways of the lesbian.

By: wallow

wallow — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 02:40:55 +0000

Hello, Dolly! is one of my top five favorite movies of all time.

By: sydney

sydney — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 01:34:44 +0000

Hey does anyone remember the TV special, early-nineties I think? Or is it just my mother that recorded it (VHS FTW) and watched it over and over again. Anyway, best line was from the SNL Coffee Lady who made a guest appearance.

“The Prince of Tides has nothing to do with princes or tides. Discuss”

By: Caitlin Kennific

Caitlin Kennific — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:03:10 +0000

Hi, I’m the girl who likes (no, perhaps loves is a better word, I am the girl who loves Yentl with a firey burning passion. Its one of my top ten “sick in bed and need comfort musical films” and my second favourite barbra film. “Papa Can You Hear Me” was the outlet to my 14 year old daddy issues in a way that angsty punk-pop songs could not.

Anyways, just thought I should identify myself.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:17:25 +0000

DON’T EVEN WORRY ABOUT IT. My 13-year-old theater geek cousin has a framed autographed photo of Barbra hanging in her room, and she is legitimately the coolest kid I know and very popular amongst her lovely peers.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:59:47 +0000

Context:

“You’ll Never Walk Alone”

If memory serves me correctly, following 9/11, the Emmy’s were postponed as the nation mourned the tragedies of Pennsylvania, Washington DC and New York City.

When the Emmy’s were finally broadcast, Barbra sang this song as a tribute.

By: Intern Grace

Intern Grace — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:44:33 +0000

I love all of you so much.

By: Steph M.

Steph M. — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 20:40:30 +0000

Yentl was one of my queer awakenings! It came out in 1983, when I was 15 and in high school. My parents went to see it in the theater without us kids. Mom and Dad were HUGE Streisand fans, so when they got home and were strangely subdued about it “Oh, it was all right” I thought it was really odd. The cross-gender-binary-dressing marriage-to-a-girl thing freaked them right the hell out.

Then it came on HBO in 1984, and Streisand was dressed as a dude, the almost kiss with Amy Irving…. my little gay heart exploded. I must have watched that 50 times. I had a HUGE crush on Amy Irving. My mom was disturbed by my fascination with it – which is one of the things she later noted as “that should have been a clue.”

I came out a couple years later. So yay, Yentl. Yay Barbra. Thanks for singing “No wonder he loves her” – because boy did I understand that song.