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| SweetVirginia |
SALES LAG FOR 'LAST' BABS TOUR
By RICHARD JOHNSON with PAULA FROELICH and CHRIS WILSON
July 5, 2006 -- BARBRA Streisand may be starting to wish her last "farewell tour" six years ago truly was her swan song.
Sales for her upcoming gigs, which begin in October, have been disappointing, according to a top music industry source, who says fans are resisting ticket prices as high as $800, not including service fees. "Some cities [like] Detroit, where they wanted to do two days, are less than 3,000 sold," the source tells Page Six.
The slow ticket sales are said to be a concern for Michael Cohl and Live Nation, the promoters who paid nearly $80 million for Streisand's 20 shows with opening act Il Divo. The tour kicks off Oct. 4 in Philadelphia, continues in New York on Oct. 9, then rolls into Washington, Detroit, Boston, Ft. Lauderdale, Atlanta, Atlantic City, Chicago, San Jose, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. But with promoters facing the possibility of losing $15 million or more on the deal, they're now said to be mulling offers to book Streisand in Indian casinos.
Tour spokesman Ken Sunshine said of our source's claims, "That is bull[bleep]. Tickets are going through the moon."
Another issue is that Streisand has said she plans to "donate millions of dollars in proceeds to environmental, education and women's health organizations through her own Streisand Foundation." But she won't say exactly how much - which means ticket buyers can't write off part of the whopping ticket costs as tax deductions.
Babs also faces the wrath of fans who saw her on her last tour, which ended in September 2000 with two Madison Square Garden sellouts that grossed $14.4 million.
Since then, she sang live at a campaign fundraiser for John Kerry that took in $5 million, and made a surprise appearance last October at the Andre Agassi Grand Slam for Children benefit in Vegas.
Some fans who bought tickets to Streisand's 2000 tour are threatening to sue, claiming they believed those were her last live performances. And some are apparently hesitating to buy tickets for the new tour because they suspect it won't be her last either.
Streisand's p.r. machine points out she is the music industry's best-selling female artist with 50 gold, 30 platinum and 13 multi-platinum albums, and has outsold The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. But the Stones have never misled fans by telling them this will be their last time. |
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| glencar |
She's an idiot. The tour should have been billed as a comeback or something. Yet, since it's only been 6 years, it's too soon. Cohl will take a huge bath on this one. More Stones shows for us? |
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| Gazza |
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SweetVirginia wrote:
Some fans who bought tickets to Streisand's 2000 tour are threatening to sue, claiming they believed those were her last live performances.
oh for fucks sake..howe pathetic. I suppose theyd rather she had croaked it since her last tour than give them the option of seeing her again
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But the Stones have never misled fans by telling them this will be their last time.
True...although some of us will choose to gloss over a few other liberties with the truth in the last year such as promises to play $50 theatre shows in order to guarantee a rush in fan club memberships, the $110 average ticket prices, postponed shows being rescheduled, etc
Hopefully this embarrassment will make Cohl see some sense and realise that even idiots have standards when it comes to being fleeced. |
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| glencar |
He should have Detroit was a one horse town! |
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| Gazza |
indeed... an amazing choice for a show like that considering the amount of 'papering' that was done for the Stones concert
at one stage ticket sales were so slow that someone quipped there would be more people on the stage than in the audience |
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| Taptrick |
I would think with Devo opening sales would be better.
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| jb |
Pug and I predicted this 100%....fortunatelt like the Stones, venues will fill up somehow and the gross will be huge!!! She is quite simply, the greatest female performer ever and the voice of our generation. |
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| sirmoonie |
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jb wrote:
She is quite simply, the greatest female performer ever and the voice of our generation.
Do more acid!
Seriously, who is she? She has like two recognizable songs. I thought she was more famous for being an agoraphobic recluse than anything else. That nose is sexy, though, in a certain way. So there's that. |
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| jb |
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sirmoonie wrote:
Do more acid!
Seriously, who is she? She has like two recognizable songs. I thought she was more famous for being an agoraphobic recluse than anything else. That nose is sexy, though, in a certain way. So there's that.
She hates Bush. |
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| Joey |
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glencar wrote:
He should have Detroit was a one horse town!
Detroit is Wide Open ( see : Paris Hilton ) . |
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| jb |
We have 2 shows here!!! We support out own kind.. |
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| jb |
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Joey wrote:
Detroit is Wide Open ( see : Paris Hilton ) .
http://www.alfassa.com/farrafarse1.html |
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| Joey |
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jb wrote:
http://www.alfassa.com/farrafarse1.html
" The Black Panther Party is a splinter group of the Nation of Islam. They once declared the Talmud is racist, that Zionism is racism, Zionism is terrorism, and Zionism is the root of why so many were killed on September 11. Just two weeks ago appearing on FOX’s Hannity & Colmes program, September 19, 2005, Black Panther Party Chief of Staff Hashim Nzinga said Jews had foreknowledge of the September 11 terrorist attacks. This is the same group that has chanted “death to Israel” and “jihad!” Shabazz himself has led marches in the street shouting, “Kill every Zionist in Israel!” and “Blow up Zionist supermarkets!” "
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| jb |
This is why we must alwasy support the Jewish nation my friend...give as much $$ as you can so we can get our nuclear arsenal ready if we are attacked.
[Edited by jb] |
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| Joey |
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jb wrote:
This is why we must alwasy support the Jewish nation my friend...give as much $$ as you can so we can get our nuclear arsenal ready if we are attacked.
[Edited by jb]
They got six million of us my Jewish Brother ....
.....NEVER AGAIN !!!!
NEVER !!!!!!! |
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| jb |
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Joey wrote:
They got six million of us my Jewish Brother ....
.....NEVER AGAIN !!!!
NEVER !!!!!!!
http://photos1.blogger.com/img/79/2240/640/Kim%20Jung%20and%20Prince%20Charles.jpg |
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| sirmoonie |
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Joey wrote:
They got six million of us my Jewish Brother ....
.....NEVER AGAIN !!!!
NEVER !!!!!!!
Nice seeing those guys get bounced out of the World Cup - home team no less. Hah! Smack-piss! |
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| jb |
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sirmoonie wrote:
Nice seeing those guys get bounced out of the World Cup - home team no less. Hah! Smack-piss!
The sales in Germany have been flat___________________ |
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| GotToRollMe |
Michael Cohl has proven to be a plague on the Stones. He's pricing them right out of existence. It's absurd. |
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| jb |
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GotToRollMe wrote:
Michael Cohl has proven to be a plague on the Stones. He's pricing them right out of existence. It's absurd.
But he has made them over 1 billion dollars since 89...they are now near the end, andfew more "sell outs" will earn them another 10-15 mil a piece (mini tour). |
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| SweetVirginia |
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| Gazza |
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jb wrote:
She hates Bush.
so does Bin Laden. Would you pay a grand for a ticket to hear him sing as well?
[Edited by Gazza] |
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| SweetVirginia |
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Gazza wrote:
so does Bin Laden. Would you pay a grand for a ticket to hear him sing as well?
[Edited by Gazza]
I think I did pay to see that on Sunday.
(Thankfully no where near $1000, though.
Madonna has a guy in her concert playing
some stone-age horn and looking very much like
Bin Laden. He also chants in what sounds like
drug-fuled Farsi.
She also does not allow any air conditioning in
the venues. MSG + July + 17K people=torture.
SV
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| jb |
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Gazza wrote:
so does Bin Laden. Would you pay a grand for a ticket to hear him sing as well?
[Edited by Gazza]
I paid an average of around 1800 a seat last tour and $7500 for Yentl...I like paying to ensure a high quality seat and VIP treament... |
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| jb |
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Dan wrote:
Yes.......... |
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| glencar |
You were robbed in advance, Joshy! |
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| jb |
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glencar wrote:
You were robbed in advance, Joshy!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=394079&in_page_id=1770 |
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| glencar |
Wow, the rain never stops! |
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| jb |
OPRAH WANTS HER FRIEND ON THE VIEW, NO? |
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| glencar |
That Friend is really her lesbian lover according to internet rumors. |
