An Evening With Barbra Streisand
1966 Concert Tour
Soldier Field
Chicago, Illinois
August 9, 1966
Chicago's Soldier Field was where Barbra sang for the last time ... for a while. Her next big project was to arrive on December 29, 1966: her son, Jason Gould.
Excerpts from Time's review of the Chicago concert are below:
The windup last week took place in Chicago’s all-but-unplayable Soldier Field. The stage was planted on the 10yd. line. The crowd of 14,220 people curled back and up into the end-zone stands like one big paying claque. Yet there was not a heckle of complaint about the low-fi sound, and plenty of uproarious laughter at even her simplest lines. A whistle whined from the neighboring railway yard. "My God!" she cried. "It’s got poifect pitch."
Barbra couldn’t sing a clinker either. Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home brought tumult. He Touched Me touched everybody. Autumn Leaves, in French yet, wowed ‘em, and People knocked ‘em out. For encores she wailed her tearful Happy Days Are Here Again and, patting her bulging tummy, crooned Silent Night. And that was that. With thunderous cheers chasing her, Barbra tripped backstage to her house-trailer dressing room. There, in a symbolic act, her private hairdresser sheared her customary complicated coif into a modified Mia Farrow cut that Barbra could tend herself. Then she headed home in her chartered Aero Commander jet.
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