Dwight Hemion, Anu Krishnan, Barry Schulman Color Me Barbra Genre:Pop This is the follow-up special to the overwhelmingly successful Color Me Barbra. Filmed in spectacular color, this companion piece to her first special is one for the ages. The vibrant colors become a metaphor for imaginati... more »on, inventiveness, fantasy, and sheer brilliance. Track Listings:
This is the follow-up special to the overwhelmingly successful Color Me Barbra. Filmed in spectacular color, this companion piece to her first special is one for the ages. The vibrant colors become a metaphor for imagination, inventiveness, fantasy, and sheer brilliance. Track Listings:
Introduction
Draw Me A Circle [Act 1]
Yesterdays [Act 1]
One Kiss [Act 1]
The Minute Waltz [Act 1]
Gotta Move [Act 1]
Non C'est Rien [Act 1]
Where Or When [Act 1]
Monologue - Pets [Act 2]
Animal Crackers In My Soup [Act 2]
Funny Face [Act 2]
The Face [Act 2]
They Didn't Believe Me [Act 2]
Were Thine That Special Face [Act 2]
I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face [Act 2]
Let's Face The Music And Dance [Act 2]
Sam, You Made The Pants Too Long [Act 2]
What's New Pussycat? [Act 2]
Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf? [Act 2]
Small World [Act 2]
Try To Remember [Act 2]
Spring Again [Act 2]
I Stayed Too Long At The Fiar [Act 2]
Look At That Face [Act 2]
Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home [Act 3]
It Had To Be You [Act 3]
C'est Si Bon (It's So Good) [Act 3]
Where Am I Going? [Act 3]
Starting Here, Starting Now [Act 3]
CD Reviews
The Way She Was
Jeffrey D. Johnson | Washington, DC | 01/27/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)
"There seems to be a time in a performer's life when either the life/passion/drive leaves them or else they mature - or is it both...are they the same? After the mid 1970's Barbra Streisand left the world of Artist and became something else...something less vital and less driven by the blood that runs through her.
Thank god for video. If you want to see what all the hoopla was about - see this. This is her frist TV special and BOY is it special. It shows a young, passionate artist who had a voice, a style and a command for every nuance a song could have all rolled up into one awkward yet facinating Barbra. This is a wonderful mixture of comic kookiness, entertainer and pure artist at work. Barbra - please come back!"
Brazillian Bootleg ... Wait for the Real Thing
Matt Howe | Washington, DC | 08/09/2005
(1 out of 5 stars)
"Although this Brazillian bootleg DVD was the only way one could watch "My Name Is Barbra", it is worth waiting for the official DVD of Streisand's first television special, which is due from Rhino Home Video in November 2005. An entire box set of Streisand's first five television specials (1965-1973) is due from Rhino. This Brazillian DVD looks like they simply transfered the Laser Disc of the 1986 home video release. Quality is not fantastic."
Lights, Camera, Music and The Voice!
12/13/1999
(5 out of 5 stars)
"PBS replayed this special a few years ago. My mom is a fan so I watched it with her. Wow! As a music video, it was years ahead of it's time and MTV. This is Barbara at her best! Color me, "Tickled pink.""
Triumphant Follow-Up Shows If It Ain't Broke...
Ed Uyeshima | San Francisco, CA USA | 07/17/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"A year after her triumphant first special, "My Name Is Barbra", Barbra Streisand regrouped with her production team to produce this follow-up CBS-TV special in then-revolutionary color. First broadcast in March 1966, "Color Me Barbra" follows a similar format to its predecessor - three segments, the first two with unique concepts. The first takes place in the after-hours halls of the Philadelphia Museum of Art where dressed as a period maid, she roams the galleries and becomes part of the artwork through song. In various guises, Streisand expresses a variety of moods from the comedy schtick of the "Minute Waltz" to the melodrama of "Non C'est Rien" in a Modigliani painting to the beatnik-style frenzy of "Gotta Move" set to abstract art. My favorite moment in the special is when she transforms into a dead ringer of Queen Nefertiti while singing a haunting rendition of Rogers and Hart's "Where or When".
Opening with another comic monologue full of silly non-sequiturs, this time in French, the second segment is back in the studio for a brightly-colored circus medley where she interacts with animals, including her beloved poodle Sadie. She finds an appropriate context for "Sam, You Made the Pants Too Long" with a bevy of penguins and comically compares her profile to an anteater's with "We Have So Much in Common". As with the first special, the program ends with a riveting solo concert in which she sings some chestnuts, "Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home", "Where Am I Going?" and "Starting Here, Starting Now" among them. Also included is the brief introduction she filmed in 1986, ironically dressed in all-white, when the special was first released on VHS. The juxtaposition of locale and song is even more effective than in her first special, and a 23-year old Streisand is in peak form."
Color me Barbra
viewmaster1 | fort lee, nj USA | 04/06/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Streisand doing what she and only she does best SING. Great sets and colorful costumes, but the real star is Babs herself. Highly recommended."
