She's giving some of the money from her shows to several causes, including the environment, education and women's health.
Streisand said "the prime reason" she decided to tour again was "the increasingly urgent need for private citizen support to combat dangerous climate change, along with education and health issues" -- and she'll be giving some of the money from her shows to benefit those causes
The money will be distributed through the Streisand Foundation.
Babs' last tour was in 1994.
About that tour. Here's an excerpt from Peter Schweizer's Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy:
"Greed" is a label that Streisand likes to attach to the American business community and capitalists in general. But when Streisand herself needs money to support her extravagant lifestyle, avarice is suddenly acceptable. In 1993, after years of lavish spending and little work, she discovered she was almost broke. As she admitted to the Washington Post, she started "running out of money because I don't work very often, and I bought all this land and I can't sell my other land and I'm going to have to sing just to pay for my house.
During that tour, Schweizer wrote, Streisand "was projected to make $10 million a night."
Of course the AP story has it that "proceeds" from the tour will go some of Barbra's pet concerns such as the environment. What percentage?
One final question: During the tour, will be Streisand be taking a six hour tour bus ride from say, St. Louis to Chicago, or will she take a 45-minute private jet jaunt--damn the environment!--leaving her underlings behind on Interstate 55 looking at corn stalk stubble.
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