The Importance of Being Barbra: The Brilliant, Tumultuous Career of Barbra Streisand

The Importance of Being Barbra: The Brilliant, Tumultuous Career of Barbra Streisand

by TomSantopietro (Author)

Synopsis

The Importance Of Being Barbra is a consideration of one of the most unparalleled careers in the history of show business. Tom Santopietro chronicles every role and recording in a lifetime of work that has earned Streisand the title of best selling pop female vocalist of all time.With a winning style and encyclopaedic expertise he celebrates the career highlights in film, theatre, albums, concerts, and even politics without ignoring the bumps in her road to super-stardom.Streisand is America's greatest living diva, and only an aficionado such as Santopietro could offer such a canny, critical yet loving look at the ups, and downs of nearly forty years in the spotlight.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 256
Edition: Revised ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 02 Oct 2007

ISBN 10: 0312375611
ISBN 13: 9780312375614

Media Reviews
A fresh approach to Streisand's varied five-decade career, applying both a fan's affection and a cultural critic's analysis to the role Streisand has played in the larger culture of her times. Boston Globe
Author Bio

Tom Santopietro has worked for the past twenty years in New York theater as a manager of moir than two dozen Broadway shows, including A Few Good Men, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, A Doll's House, Master Class, Tru, The Iceman Cometh, and Noises Off. A graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Law, Tom and the American Bar Association are equally happy that he is not practicing law.