Today Barbra Streisand concert tickets go for as much as eight hundred dollars. She was born Barbara Joan Streisand to a Jewish family in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York then moved to another area in Brooklyn. Her father, Emanuel Streisand, a grammar teacher, died when she was only 15 months old, and she had a lifelong turbulent relationship with her stepfather, Louis Kind. Her well-intentioned mother, Diana Ida Rosen, did not encourage her daughter to pursue a show business career, opining that Barbara was not attractive enough. This criticism, many speculate, led to a lifelong insecurity about her appearance, despite enormous success in every facet of show business.
Many consider that her success in The Way we Were will always dwarf any success she has from Barbra Streisand concert tickets. The Way we Were the proverbial chick flick of two women who meet in childhood whose relationship goes through crisis and tumult while remaining friends.
Her music career spanning over five decades, began in her teens singing at a gay nightclub in Greenwhich Village in 1960. At this time she shortened her last name to Barbra Streisand moving the r and dropping the last a. In 1962 after the musical “Can Get it for You Wholesale" she signed with Columbia Records, her first score The Barbra Streisand Album won her two Grammy Awards in 1963. Her success continues to the point where she had three albums on the Billboards pop albums top ten.
Barbra Streisand concert tickets currently on sale for her fall tour beginning October 4th, 06 indicators from presale purchases estimate tour gross to be in the hundred twenty million mark making it the highest grossing tour.
Although an American Express presale for Barbra Streisand concert tickets is hardly a surefire calculation of tour gross considering ticket brokering, it is a professional estimation by ticket brokers of her possible success.