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Streisand, Stones Do Big-Time Box Office
Overcoming flying beverages, fans who didn't appreciate her Bush-bashing and initial worries about poor ticket sales, Barbra Streisand put up record-setting numbers at the box office this year.
Billboard reported Tuesday that the singer's 20-date North American concert tour, Babs' first string of live performances in six years, has grossed $92.5 million and set house gross records in 14 of the 16 venues she played.
And she already holds the record for highest grosses at the other two arenas, New York's Madison Square Garden and Las Vegas' MGM Grand Arena, so no worries there. The Funny Girl, who wrapped up her latest run Nov. 20 at Los Angeles' Staples Center, now holds the top three spots at MSG and the top two at the MGM.
"I say nay to the naysayers," tour producer Michael Cohl, founder of global touring company CPI, said. "That was probably one of the most satisfying parts of the whole thing. But the most satisfying part for me was how amazing the show was. I watched every night, and I loved it. I'd never seen her in concert and she was sensational."
Cohl said Streisand's camp is talking about a possible 2007 tour.
"From the stage in Los Angeles she said that she's thinking of going to Europe and the Far East, so here's hoping it happens," he said.
It worked for the Rolling Stones, whose A Bigger Bang tour's $437 million in ticket sales has knocked U2's Vertigo tour out of the top spot to become the highest-grossing tour in history. The "Brown Sugar" rockers, who attracted 3.5 million fans to 110 shows, not including the 2 million who showed up for a free concert in Rio de Janeiro in February, are also thinking of expanding their tour into 2007.
Additionally, the Stones' November performance at New York's Beacon Theater was filmed by Martin Scorsese for an as-yet untitled documentary due out next year.
Meanwhile, Bono & Co. earned more than $333 million on the road between Mar. 28, 2005, and Mar. 2, 2006, to scoot ahead of the Stones and their 1994-95 Voodoo Lounge tour, giving the Dubliners a temporary hold on number one. U2's 10 makeup shows this month are expected to get Vertigo to the $377 million mark.
The Stones also overcame adversity on their way to total monetary dominance, including Keith Richards' palm tree tumble and ensuing head injury, Mick Jagger's laryngitis and now a $51 million lawsuit filed by two fans who got no satisfaction in Atlantic City last month when Jagger's sore pipes led to a cancellation. Ticketmaster was also named as a defendant.
But you can't always get what you want, and a few disgruntled customers aren't going to put a damper on what the Stones' top-dog status means for Cohl's CPI, which produced A Bigger Bang in addition to Streisand's '06 outing.
"It was the most amazing year of my life, let's face it," Cohl, who has produced every Stones tour since 1989's Steel Wheels, told Billboard. "It was a busy year. But I had sat around and done very little hanging out in Florida for over a year, trying to figure out what to do and whether or not to do it. And as soon as the Stones decided they were going to work, then I was going to go back to work, so you may as well go at it whole hog. So, I did.
"Definitely there was drama and hurdles, but at the end of the day, if you tour long enough, everything's going to happen, isn't it?"
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