[Dixielandjazz] Stopping the hecklers the Barbra Streisand Way.

[Steve Barbone]

Below is snipped from a favorable review. What the staid NY TIMES does not
report is what Barbra did when her political skit was loudly heckled by some
in the audience.

As her GW Bush skit went on, some started to heckle. She said "come on now,
be polite." Most stopped except for one very loud heckler. She then said
loudly; "Shut the f*** up." That stopped him. :-) VBG.'

Her performance is a 2 day sell-out at Madison Square Garden, proving that
the audiences still find her voice incredible.

Cheers,
Steve


Oct 11, 2006 - NY TIMES Music Review - 'Barbra Streisand' By STEPHEN HOLDEN

In a Duet Between a Star and Her Aura, Streisand Takes the Stage

On Monday evening Barbra Streisand took a carefully plotted step down from
the imperial pedestal she has occupied for decades, and stumbled. The
biggest miscalculation was the appearance, late in the show at Madison
Square Garden, of a George W. Bush impersonator (Steve Bridges) whom Ms.
Streisand, an ardent Democrat, interrogated in a tone that tried to be witty
and failed. 

How would the president erase the national debt? Sell Canada, he replied:
they don¹t use half of it. ³If I cared about polls,² he remarked, ³I would
have run for president of Poland.² And so on. The tepid segment mercifully
ended after the two joined voices for an unfunny spoof of the famous Judy
Garland-Streisand duet of ³Get Happy² and ³Happy Days Are Here Again.²

When Ms. Streisand stopped talking and started singing, she was her old
self. 

remainder snipped.