After singing the last song ("Somewhere") Barbra told the audience they were taping the show and requested they stay for some additional takes of songs. "I have to come on and sing 'Evergreen'. Then I have to change my outfit to a different color of white ... but you'll be on TV now!"
Barbra and her television crew did a 'take' of "Evergreen."
"Marvin," Barbra said, "You have to make the people laugh while I change my whites [her white outfit in the 2nd Act], okay? Because this other one has to be for another show that's going to be on August 21st. HBO!"
Marvin Hamlisch talked to the audience on a microphone and played for them while Barbra changed outfits.
Then Barbra came out again and sang "Somewhere," including her spoken introduction.
Next Barbra introduced some "pickups for 'The Way We Were'," because they needed some closeups for the television taping. Barbra joked her way through the song, talking between lyric lines, but got serious for the last third of the song.
"Do you mind doing 'You Don't Bring Me Flowers' again?" The audience laughed, as if she had to ask! As Marvin Hamlisch readied the orchestra, someone yelled out to Barbra about another tour. "My next tour? In 27 years." The audience laughed and applauded. Someone else yelled out "Stoney End" and Barbra said, "Another lifetime ago..."
After confirming with Hamlisch that the Anaheim orchestra knew “What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?” Streisand walked to the top of the stairs and began singing the song. After two lines: “I don't like it up here, let's do it down there.” More audience adulation. “I hope this doesn't ruin the illusion of it all,” she said to the Anaheim crowd. Sitting center stage on a stool, she sang a captivating version of the song, which appeared as a bonus on the Blockbuster video version.
Barbra then thanked everyone for staying and left the stage.
After the audience left the show, Streisand returned again to re-film a section of the Yentl
medley since, during the show, there was a lighting problem. Streisand poised herself at the edge of her stool and confirmed with director Dwight Hemion (over a loudspeaker) the exact position she was holding her microphone during the show, so the shots matched. “Continuity is important, isn't it?” she asked out loud. For the shot, the first three rows of chairs in front of the stage were removed so the camera could get a perfect shot not possible during the actual show. Streisand began the pickup shot with her Yentl
patter and went into singing “Will Someone Ever Look At Me That Way?” Hemion interrupted the take: “Stop, Barbra, you've got a shiny spon on your forehead.” Makeup was applied, then Streisand noticed herself in the mirror. “There's a white line under my eye. Did this show all night? Did it show up during the show?” Smith said he didn't notice, and Streisand composed herself for another take. Singing “Will Someone,” then moving into “A Piece of Sky,” Streisand sang for a small audience of about 30 people. “That was good,” she announced to Hemion after she finished. “There was one note, but I know we can fix that later.”
After that, (and close to 12:30 a.m.) Annie Liebovitz captured a group photo of Barbra and the orchestra.
Producer Gary Smith said “Barbra has always, and I mean always, been a director of the TV work she’s done. You know as well as anyone that her involvement is extensive and detailed. Her knowledge of directing, even in the earlier days, was very complete — the look, the cameras, the staging. Once she truly became a director in films, I’m sure she felt equally at ease, even with Dwight, in being quite vocal and insistent with her judgments and opinions. Not always the most tactful in transmitting her thoughts, she has always been so knowledgeable that she’s able to say things in a way that other performers would perhaps not get away with. The concepts of The Concert
were almost entirely Barbra’s and the Bergmans’, with input from Marvin Hamlisch. The look of the stage, the placement of the orchestra, the various song segments, the video inserts were almost entirely Barbra’s concepts and execution. I believe, unlike other television endeavors we’ve done together, we were there more to record and edit Barbra’s event, as opposed to the more unified concept approach.”
