Barbra Streisand will charge up to £500 for the privilege of hearing her warbling when she tours the UK later this year. The cheapest tickets for her show at the new O2 arena in East London will be £100. A spokesman defended the extortionate ticket prices by telling reporters the show Streisand will perform will be "a momentous occasion that ranks up there with seeing Sinatra or Elvis". Personally I'd not spend £500 to see either Sinatra or Elvis, even if they'd come back from the dead just to perform, but there you go. Part of the proceeds of ticket sales will go to the Barbra Streisand Foundation, which supports causes including the environment, civil rights and disadvantaged youngsters, which, of course, makes ripping off your fans all OK. Still, if people are stupid enough to pay those kinds of prices, I won't lose too much sleep over them being ripped off. And people probably will pay - the last Streisand tour had similarly (though not quite as) extortionate ticket prices and despite reports tickets sales were slow, most shows went on to sell out.
May 1, 2007
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Streisand tickets going for up to £500
Tickets for Barbra Streisand's UK show at the O2 Arena range from £100 to £500, with part of the proceeds going to her foundation.