Streisand by Anne Edwards

Author:Anne Edwards
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781630761295
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Published: 2016-07-24T16:00:00+00:00

Footnotes

1 The original soundtrack recording of Funny Girl was released a month in advance of the film but was pre-empted by Diana Ross’s Funny Girl album, Diana Ross and the Supremes Sing and Perform Funny Girl. To Streisand and Stark’s amazement, Jule Styne had assisted Ross with the recording and had written the liner notes and Peter Matz had helped with the arrangements. ‘I just don’t like the idea of her singing my songs and with my musical arranger,’ Streisand is reported as saying. ‘Who the hell does she think she is? The world doesn’t need another Streisand!’ Ross had a keen sense of competition with Streisand, believing that if she had been white, like Streisand, ‘it would have been a hundred times easier for her’. Ross’s album was one of her few commercial failures. Streisand’s original soundtrack recording, on the other hand, did extremely well, although not as well as the original Broadway cast recording.

2 In its first domestic release Funny Girl grossed $25 million. It eventually did reach the revenues projected by Columbia Studio and Ray Stark in foreign and further releases, television and video sales. At the figures quoted in the text, Stark received $2.5 million from the gross at the end of the first year of its release. Barbra Streisand received her $200,000 contracted fee, her royalties from the original soundtrack recording and the later income generated by her royalties on the film’s television and video release.

3 Lerner and Loewe had written the scores for Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon, MyFair Lady, Gigi and Camelot.

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