Opening Remarks - Barbra Streisand

Thank you!

What a wonderful week to be in New York!

The Rangers won the Stanley cup, right here at the garden

The Yankees are in first place, The Knicks came this close, and is so great to

be here during the «gay games»!

Because for once I can walk around the city without being recognized.

you know?

There are enough guys in town who impersonate me that w’m out on the streets,

nobody thinks it’s really me…

Today I was walking up Broadway and a woman said to her husband: «Look,

it’s Barbra Streisand!»

and her husband said: «Will yop it already,

that’s the tenth one today, this one is not even close!»

This is… this is the city that means most to me in my tour, because it’s my

home…

I was born and raised here… (int Ted)… pardon me… oh, welcome home did

you say, thank you, thank you!

Yes, the last time I did a concert here in New York, it was Central Park

twenty-seven years ago… so, a lot has happened since then…