Philadelphia 1966 Concert Tour

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An Evening With Barbra Streisand (1966)

1966 Concert Tour

John F. Kennedy Stadium
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

August 3, 1966

1966 TOUR CREDITS

The Alan King—Walter A. Hyman Company present

AN EVENING WITH BARBRA STREISAND

Music arranged and conducted by PETER MATZ

Technical staging and lighting by RALPH ALSWANG

Sound by MYLES ROSENTHAL

Personal Management by MARTIN ERLICHMAN

Public Relations by SOLTERS, O'ROURKE & SABINSON

LINKS TO 1966 CONCERT PAGES:


Newspaper ad for Streisand's 1966 concert in Philadelphia
When booking Streisand’s Philadelphia concert, local sponsor Hal Freeman worked with the New York promoters King and Hyman to find an appropriate venue. “They first wanted Franklin Field, but that was impossible with the track being torn up. We took them to Liberty Bell, Temple and they like Kennedy Stadium best of all.”

Philly’s Sunday Bulletin newspaper reported: “The local promoters are striving to make the huge [John F. Kennedy Stadium] bowl, home of the Army-Navy football game, more intimate by limiting the seating to 20,000 in the horseshoe-shaped south stands.”

The big news at Barbra Streisand’s August 2nd concert in Philadelphia – the second show in her four-concert tour – was that it was canceled at the last minute (official word came over the car radio at 8:15 p.m.) due to rain.

Producer Walter Hyman told the Philadelphia Daily News, “But we were only trying to do the best we could. We had word from Allentown at 5 o’clock that a storm of an hour’s duration was heading this way and expected to be all clear by show time.”

Streisand came out of her trailer to say hello to the diehard fans who waited in the rain.

The show was postponed until the next evening, August 3rd.

Barbra and sound man Myles Rosenthal had some sound problems in Philadelphia. The Daily News wrote: “Acoustically, the stadium is not the Academy of Music. The singer couldn’t have picked up more echoes if she gave the concert in the Alps. Other distractions such as feedback on the sound system and the occasional accompaniment by a DC-8 or Boeing jet would have distracted more seasoned veterans, but Barbra takes them as par for the course.”

“Too much echo!” was what the audience yelled. On a bootleg recording, after a plane can be heard during one of Barbra's monologues, she says, disdainfully, “Football stadium...” 
Barbra Streisand in split-colored dress with the microphone in Philadelphia.

“Barbra Streisand is one of those natural artists who can set up a rapport with an audience and command its attention now matter what the size of the crowd or how long the performance.

“She demonstrated this mastery last night at Kennedy Stadium with a two-hour recital for the well-filled south stand. Official estimates of the attendance were 18,144 paid for a gross of $108,653. There were also several thousand ‘freebies,’ when the promoters papered the stands after Tuesday night’s washout.”

... Philadelphia Daily News, August 4, 1966 by Jerry Gaghan

Barbra Streisand singing in black sparkly dress.
PHILADELPHIA SET LIST

This set list was confirmed by an audience recording of the show.

ACT ONE
 
  • Overture 
  • Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home
  • My Honey's Lovin' Arms
  • I Hate Music 
  • I'll Tell the Man in the Street
  • Cry Me A River
  • Folk Song ("A Schloon for the Gumpert") 
  • Value
  • Gotta Move
  • As Time Goes By
  • My Melancholy Baby 
  • Down With Love
  • Why Did I Choose You? 
  • Where Am I Going? 
  • Who Will Buy? 
  • When the Sun Comes Out 

ACT TWO 

  • Entr'Acte
  • I Can See It 
  • He Touched Me
  • What Now, My Love?
  • Autumn Leaves
  • I Wish You Love
  • Folk Song 
  • Lover Come Back To Me 
  • My Man
  • Second Hand Rose
  • People
  • Happy Days Are Here Again
Philadelphia newspaper ad with a diagram of the stage in JFK Stadium
Newspaper clippings of a teenager writing in to complain about ticket prices.
Streisand at microphone in layered chiffon gown
Links below to Barbra's 4-city tour in 1966 ....
End / 1966 Concert Tour – Philadelphia JFK Stadium
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