by TomSantopietro (Author)
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.
Format: Illustrated
Pages: 256
Edition: Revised ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 02 Oct 2007
ISBN 10: 0312375611
ISBN 13: 9780312375614
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.