BARBRA The Greatest Star
Featuring the music of Barbra Streisand
Directed by Brittanie Shipway
From the legendary Hayes Theatre Co comes the visual and music spectacular that is Barbra. Celebrating Streisand's peerless songbook, legendary humour, and cultural legacy, director-performer Brittanie Shipway leads four vocalists and a live band through soaring ballads, brassy anthems, and intimate surprises — honouring sixty years of fearless, boundary-breaking artistry.
★★★★★ "This ode to Barbra Streisand is an aptly decadent production, making it a must-see"
ABOUT THE SHOW
Barbra Streisand is a uniquely luminous, uncompromising, and boundary-breaking talent, and this show celebrates her peerless repertoire, legendary humour, and ground-breaking impact on music and culture, with the same fearlessness she’s shown on stage and screen for over sixty years.
Director and performer Brittanie Shipway collaborates with three other incredible vocalists and a live three-piece band, to showcase the Streisand songbook sharing insight and new perspectives on the songs you love, and serving up a few surprises along the way. Expect an invigorating mix of soaring ballads, brassy anthems, and intimate moments that evoke the heart of Barbra’s unmatched artistry.
REVIEWS
★★★★★ "Not only is Barbra just an exotically gorgeous joy to listen to, its visual style is so outrageously decadent that we’re given permission to have our cake and gorge on it too." - Time Out
★★★★★ "A 75 minute visually exciting, tightly directed and compelling concert of Babs’ songs with some very relaxed, freeform banter." - Sydney Arts Guide
★★★★★ "Barbra is performed amid the excess of blooms (because too many flowers are just not enough), and lit to lusciousness by Peter Rubie. With agile and focused sound design and flawless operation by Em-Jay Dwyer, each singer sashays in and out, off and on, and into and out of chorus lines (choreographer Zoe Ioannou) to make an unusually ravishing visual spectacle out of a simple concert concept." - Stage Noise
ABOUT HAYES THEATRE CO
Hayes Theatre Co is Australia's leading independent producer of small-scale musical theatre. Since 2014, Hayes has championed bold new Australian work alongside reinventions of classic and contemporary shows, earning a reputation for award-winning productions and as Australia's answer to Off-Broadway.
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