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May 6, 2007--The Ticket Conundrum
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Tis a mystery. While do her tickets sell? Why for such high prices? Why so quickly? Well, on the quickly part I have an idea. When I bought tickets for her concert in 1994, it was reported that tickets sold out in less than an hour. Not true. I started dialing at 10AM. I couldn't get through so I located a ticket outlet. I arrived at the ticket outlet at about 11:30. I bought my tickets around noon and there were still tickets available. Granted, they sold out quickly, but not in the time announced. In the case of London, I think scalpers are buying a lot of the tickets hoping to make a profit. Good Luck. Scalpers here learned painful lessons with many selling tickets at half price on the day of the show. Still, no matter how you look at it, a lot of people are willing to pay these prices. Oh, the insanity!
2007-05-06 09:07:29 GMT
Comments (19 total)
Author:Anonymous
I heard Emily bought quite a few. That silly minx.
2007-05-06 21:22:59 GMT
Author:Anonymous
Do you think she is going to sing STFU as an opener just to warn hecklers in advance? I hear she liked the dance remix version so much that she had a ballad version written by Stephen Sondheim with additional lyrics by Marilyn and Alan Bergman. The only diffence is it's called "STFU Mem'ries."
2007-05-07 01:12:04 GMT
Author:Anonymous
Emily bought up several tickets for the US tour and sold them on ebay. I bid on a few before I realized that the seller -- Ylime --- was just Emily playing games. Her full name was Ylime Eht Xnim. What a con artist she can be. But I guess that's why we love her.
2007-05-07 01:19:49 GMT
Author:Anonymous
Yes - Emily has been trying to use Babs just like Babs used Emily on the Movie Album. I also understand that Emily has a few of the Barbra cover High Society magazines from the 70's that she wants to unload on ebay, butt is afraid she won't get anything for them. I would think someone like the guy who runs this site would love to make a deal with our Em!
2007-05-07 22:12:47 GMT
Author:Anonymous
Did Emily ever appear in High Society?
2007-05-08 02:37:25 GMT
Author:Anonymous
Did Emily ever appear in High Society?
2007-05-08 02:37:26 GMT
Author:Anonymous
No, butt she did appear in Mad Magazine and Field and Stream.
2007-05-08 10:58:56 GMT
Author:Anonymous
I heard (on that 'other' Barbra board) that Barbra is dropping some songs. Anyone know which ones? I hope it's not People or Evergreen.
2007-05-08 11:21:35 GMT
Author:Anonymous
You visit other Barbra boards? What kind of horrible pig are you? This site is the be all and end all of all things Streisand. If Emily sees this she will surely drop dead. Please say you were just kidding.
2007-05-08 23:53:16 GMT
Author:Anonymous
The photo above totally frightens me. All that's needed is a coffin in the background. Please remove it so am not frightened every time I visit this page. Please. I am trembling as I write...
2007-05-08 23:55:43 GMT
Author:Anonymous
The photo above totally frightens me. All that's needed is a coffin in the background. Please remove it so am not frightened every time I visit this page. Please. I am trembling as I write...
2007-05-08 23:55:55 GMT
Author:Anonymous
I;m sorry - I jsut got tired of reading about Sanjina, Loopy Lopez and all that American Idol crap, so I looked at that site for jsut a minute. As you can tell, I didnt' like what I saw - dropping People? Evergreen? Please tell me she's going to sing these in Europe! I cannot imagine a Barbra concert without them! If she left these out, it would be a bigger slap in the face than the infamous Emily snub of 2006!
2007-05-09 00:25:32 GMT
Author:Anonymous
My source tells me that Barbra is preparing a new medley for the European tour. The theme is "Men". She plans to combine the following songs: My MAN, The MAN I Love, Can't Help Luvin' Dat MAN O Mine, A MAN I Loved, Stout-hearted MEN, Macho MAN, The MAN that Got Away, I'll Tell the MAN in the Street, Coronet MAN, Lover MAN O Where Can You Be?, The Kind of a MAN a Woman Needs, Hands Off the MAN (Flim Flam MAN), Simple MAN, SuperMAN, A Good MAN is Hard to Find/Some of these Days and Mr. Tambourine MAN. The medley was suggested to her by Barry MANilow. When the inevitable CD is released, if you buy it at Target, you get an extra song - Evergreen in Polish. If you buy it at Borders, you get two extra songs: Evergreen in Chinese and People (alternative version). If you buy it anywhere else, you get nothing.

Just a thought - Is this some kind of Emily backlash because Em's a female?

Oh - as usual, please do not tell anyone about this. Thanks!
2007-05-09 00:50:55 GMT
Author:Anonymous
You are brilliant, Anonymous. I so wish I knew who you were so that I could worship you like I worship Barbra. Will you ever reveal yourself? I kind of think you are Trixie but then again you may be Emily. You have so much inside information.
2007-05-09 01:16:20 GMT
Author:Anonymous
I wet my pants imagining Evergreen in Polish and alternate versions of People in Chinese. I'm headed to the Berlitz Languageg School in heady anticipation.
2007-05-09 01:19:50 GMT
Author:Anonymous
I wet my pants imagining Evergreen in Polish and alternate versions of People in Chinese. I'm headed to the Berlitz Languageg School in heady anticipation.
2007-05-09 01:20:03 GMT
Author:Anonymous
Yes, it's me, but please don't tell anyone! My source might stop feeding me all this juicy stuff!

Trix.
2007-05-09 21:55:44 GMT
Author:Anonymous
You are totally the bomb, Trixie. Whenever I visit this site, I know I am going to get information about Barbra that even she probably doesn't know. The "Men" theme is a concept that only Babs could pull off. I would love to know your insights on what she will do after the tour. She said during the concert that she is building a new house (since the mega mansion we saw on the Rosie interview is clearly unacceptable). But she also said she was doing these concerts to raise money for her causes. Is one of those causes her house? I wonder about this because buying tickets for her concert caused me to have problems paying the mortgage on my own home. Then again, I may have to turn to some of the charities she supports to put food on my table because. I really hope she also supports food stamps. And I hope she supports health insurance since I cancelled my annual doctor's visits to pay to hear her sing. People who need people are truly the luckiest people in the world and boy do I need people to help me out of the debt I've gotten myself into because of her. I love her so. And hearing her sing for two hours is to die for. Literally. If you don't hear from me again, it's because I'm dead.
2007-05-09 23:59:50 GMT
Author:Anonymous
Please get rid of that scary pic. It reminds me of Life on Mars.
2007-05-11 00:46:36 GMT
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