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 Simply, A German Barbra Streisand Fanmagazine
By Steve Gorman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Veteran singer-actress Barbra Streisand
announced on Wednesday that she will give four final concerts in
September -- two in Los Angeles and two in New York -- then bid
goodbye to her career as a public performer.
Streisand, 58, who has acknowledged a lifelong struggle with anxiety
over live appearances, ``has chosen to conclude her public
performance career in the two cities most closely associated with her
work,'' her manager, Martin Erlichman said in a statement.
She will give two farewell concerts at the Staples Center in Los
Angeles, on Sept. 20 and 21, and two more at Madison Square Garden in
New York City, on Sept. 27 and 28.
Tickets will go on sale through Ticketmaster on July 30 for the Los
Angeles concerts and on July 31 for the New York engagements. No
information about prices was immediately available.
Those shows will follow a performance by Streisand Aug. 17 at a star-
studded fund-raising concert for the Democratic Party in Los Angeles
immediately following Vice President Al Gore (news - web sites)'s
nomination for president, publicist Dick Guttman said.
For that show, to be held at the Shrine Auditorium, Streisand will
share the bill with numerous performers, but ''she will be singing
the last three songs of the night,'' Guttman said.
Streisand's last live performance was a sold-out millennium eve
concert she gave Dec. 31, 1999, at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas,
for which she reportedly received $5 million.
``She thought that the performance in Las Vegas would be her last
one, but there were so many pressures ... from fans and others for
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