Notes: Sold through U.S. Barnes & Noble stores, this is an exclusive limited edition promo-only bonus disc in custom designed card sleeve containing one otherwise unreleased concert track recorded live at Australia's Sydney Football Stadium on March 10, 2000. (Image displayed is the back cover. Front cover is same as main release.)
Tracks: Disc: 1
1. Opening/You'll Never Know
2. Something's Coming
3. The Way We Were
4. Shirley MacLaine Y1K
5. Cry Me A River
6. Lover, Come Back To Me
7. A Sleepin' Bee
8. Miss Marmelstein
9. I'm The Greatest Star/Second Hand Rose/Don't Rain On My Parade (Medley)
10. Something Wonderful/Being Alive (Medley)
11. As Time Goes By/Speak Low (Medley)
12. Alfie
13. Evergreen
14. Dialogue (Father, Part #1)
15. Papa Can You Hear Me?/You'll Never Know
16. A Piece Of Sky
Disc: 2
1. Entr'acte
2. Putting It Together
3. On A Clear Day (You Can See Forever)
4. Send In The Clowns
5. Happy Days Are Here Again/Get Happy/Guilty/I Finally Found Someone/Tell Him...
6. Sing/I've Got A Crush On You
7. Technology (Dialogue)
8. The Clicker Blues
9. Simple Pleasures
10. The Main Event/Fight
11. Dialogue (Father, Part #2)
12. I've Dreamed Of You
13. At The Same Time
14. Auld Lang Syne (Ballad)
15. Dialogue (Barbra And Brother Time)
16. People
17. New Year's Eve/Auld Lang Syne (Celebration)
18. Everytime You Hear Auld Lang Syne (Barbra/Audience)
19. Happy Days Are Here Again
20. Don't Like Goodbyes
21. I Believe/Somewhere
Posted 2008-01-19 17:30:43: Amazon.com: Barbra Streisand's Timeless: Live from the MGM Grand is not merely a career retrospective--it's a life retrospective, and a show rather than a concert. The opening scene is 1955, with a young singer (ably played by Lauren Frost) finding her voice. As she wistfully begins "Something's Coming," the grown-up Streisand joins in to an electrifying ovation and proceeds to take us on a journey through her life: the torchy period ("A Sleepin' Bee"), the Broadway period ("Don't Rain on My Parade"), the movie period ("Evergreen"), the Sondheim period ("Putting It Together"), and the James Brolin period ("I've Dreamed of You"). She also recalls through video clips several duets before she sings "I've Got a Crush on You" with a clip of Frank Sinatra, and debuts a new song by Marvin Hamlisch and Alan and Marilyn Bergman, "Simple Pleasures," then counts us down to the new year (or new millennium, depending on your math).
It's titled Timeless, but this long-awaited double CD is already somewhat dated, having been recorded in Las Vegas on December 31, 1999, and January 1, 2000, but not released until September 2000, by which time the Y2K jokes are already quaint. Also, the extensive monologues and acted-out sequences might wear a bit upon repeated listenings. But when you hear such familiar fare as "Something Wonderful" and "Alfie" and immediately forget anyone else who has ever sung them, you'll realize that it's the singer and her signature songs that are indeed timeless. If Streisand has in fact decided to stop performing live, then at least we have this document to remind us of how great a treasure she is. --David Horiuchi
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