Houghton Mifflin Harcourt HMH | ISBN:0547368925 | File Type: PDF, 576 pages | File size: 49.Mb | Nov. 6th, 2012
General Entertainment Biography Autobiography: Becoming Barbra Streisand In 1960 Barbra Streisand was just a seventeen year old Jewish kid with a voice as big as her nose Four years later she had taken over Broadway as the star of Funny Girl and had three platinum albums In Hello Gorgeous Mann charts that climb to fame He takes us back to her formative years her relationship with her mother her early lovers and her husband Elliott God With access to the previously sealed private collections of Jerome Robbins Bob Fosse and many others Mann lays out the first ever accurate account of the making of Funny Girl fills in an incomplete record of Streisand s early nightclub and television appearances and takes us behind the scenes of the canny marketing team whose strategies made her stardom seem inevitable He also re creates a vibrant piece of New York theatrical history the dinner clubs and the birth of Off Off Broadway Everyone of a certain age remembers when the phenomenon of Barbra Streisand rewrote all the res of stardom In this intimate portrait Mann incisively illuminates the woman before she became the icon
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