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From Times Online
April 30, 2007

Streisand charges up to £500 per ticket

Times Online and agencies

Barbra Streisand is to charge up to £500 per ticket when she plays the UK this summer.

The cheapest seats for Streisand's concert at London's O2 Arena - formerly the Millennium Dome - will cost £100.

The music legend is performing in the UK for the first time in 13 years.

Her ticket prices far exceed the likes of Madonna and the Rolling Stones.

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Streisand's London gig on July 18 will be one of five European dates.

She will also play Castletown House in Dublin on July 14 plus shows in Vienna, Paris and Nice.

"What a joy it will be to perform in so many wonderful countries for the first time," said Streisand.

"I can't wait to experience these different audiences and different cultures."

The lavish show will include a 58-piece orchestra and Streisand will perform a string of hits including The Way We Were and Don't Rain On My Parade.

Part of the proceeds would go to the Barbra Streisand Foundation, which supports causes including the environment, civil rights and disadvantaged youngsters.

A spokesman for the star defended the high ticket prices.

"Seeing Barbra Streisand in concert is a pretty momentous occasion that ranks up there with seeing Sinatra or Elvis.

"If you think that FA Cup final tickets are going for £1,600, you get some sort of context," the spokesman told the Evening Standard.

Tour promoter Michael Cohl said: "It is an amazing show - a once-in-a-lifetime experience not to be missed."

Streisand's recent US tour, her first in six years, broke box office records in 14 of the 16 venues she played.

The 65-year-old is the best-selling female artist of all time, with 50 gold, 30 platinum and 13 multi-platinum albums to her credit.

Her career includes two Oscars, four Emmys, 10 Golden Globes and eight Grammys.

She won the best actress Oscar in 1969 for Funny Girl followed by the best original song award for A Star is Born, in 1977.

After an eight-year break from acting she made her comeback opposite Dustin Hoffman in the hit 2004 comedy Meet The Fockers.

If you want to see the all time BEST, than you must do what one must do. -------- She is the GREATEST STAR EVER, no exceptions. Barbra, makes me feel alive with enegy and appreciation for the stlye,presents and golden voice that only comes ones in a life time. I only hope all enjoy / love Barbra as much as I have for a life time. I'm traveling to London to see my 3rd. performance in 6 months. Yes, call me crazy. However, I'm loving / enjoying and treasuring ever sight and sound of my most beloved performer / STAR.

bob, phia,pa, usa

I have loved Barbra since I was 12 if not before, this is my dream to see her and I shall be there with my sister on the 18th July. I am almost crying now with emotion. Just the thought of seeing her gives me goose bumps, I cannot wait.

Julie Smith, Penrhyn Bay,

I was in NYC in 2000. MS Streisand was supposedly giving her 'Farewell Tour'. Traffic was tied up outside Madison Square Garden. My poem 'Saturday Night in New York City' includes these thoughts:

Long white limousines are lined up outside of the Garden Theatre,
As the audience say a fond farewell to the famous singing Diva,
One thousand dollars of people's hard earned money,
Thrown away for two hours of tasteless treacle and spoon-fed honey,
Someday this joyous throng will say with tears of misplaced pride,
To think I was there that night when the music finally died
It's just another Saturday Night in the city they say that never sleeps,
As the Statue of Liberty stares across the bay and silently she weeps.

Brian , Liverpool, UK

Wow

I have been waiting to see her for years.
As regards prices, so what, hundreds pay out a fortune for football tickets, for a dreary outcome, as usual.

This is an event.One hundred pounds isn't much these days anyway,half a dozen take aways etc!

Mark, dartford, uk

She is definately worth that & more... We were lucky enugh to see her "opening nite" in Philadelphia in Oct'06 !

P Tarde, Philadelphia, USA - PA

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