Product Details

• Actors: Barbra Streisand
• Directors: Dwight Hemion, Roland Vance
• Writers: Robert Emmett
• Producers: Dwight Hemion, Anu Krishnan, Barry Schulman, David Horn, Joe Layton
• Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• VHS Release Date: March 22, 1994
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303201296
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #327,274 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Color Me Barbra was Barbra Streisand's second television special, broadcast on March 30, 1966 and is, naturally, filmed in color. The first sequence was shot at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with Streisand wandering among the masterworks and antiquities, even singing "Where or When" dressed as Nefertiti. Next she's among a circus of animals, singing "Try to remember" to the elephant or poking fun at herself by telling the anteater "We have so much in common." As with My Name Is Barbra, the final act is her just singing at a mike, with "Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home" and "It Had to Be You." Previously released as part of the five-disc Barbra Streisand: The Television Specials. --David Horiuchi

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lights, Camera, Music and The Voice!, December 12, 1999

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This review is from: Color Me Barbra [VHS] (VHS Tape)

PBS replayed this special a few years ago. My mom is a fan so I watched it with her. Wow! As a music video, it was years ahead of it's time and MTV. This is Barbara at her best! Color me, "Tickled pink."

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Way She Was, January 27, 2005

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Jeffrey D. Johnson "cleteus" (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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There seems to be a time in a performer's life when either the life/passion/drive leaves them or else they mature - or is it both...are they the same? After the mid 1970's Barbra Streisand left the world of Artist and became something else...something less vital and less driven by the blood that runs through her.
Thank god for video. If you want to see what all the hoopla was about - see this. This is her frist TV special and BOY is it special. It shows a young, passionate artist who had a voice, a style and a command for every nuance a song could have all rolled up into one awkward yet facinating Barbra. This is a wonderful mixture of comic kookiness, entertainer and pure artist at work. Barbra - please come back!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Triumphant Follow-Up Shows If It Ain't Broke..., July 16, 2006

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Ed Uyeshima (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Color Me Barbra (DVD)

A year after her triumphant first special, "My Name Is Barbra", Barbra Streisand regrouped with her production team to produce this follow-up CBS-TV special in then-revolutionary color. First broadcast in March 1966, "Color Me Barbra" follows a similar format to its predecessor - three segments, the first two with unique concepts. The first takes place in the after-hours halls of the Philadelphia Museum of Art where dressed as a period maid, she roams the galleries and becomes part of the artwork through song. In various guises, Streisand expresses a variety of moods from the comedy schtick of the "Minute Waltz" to the melodrama of "Non C'est Rien" in a Modigliani painting to the beatnik-style frenzy of "Gotta Move" set to abstract art. My favorite moment in the special is when she transforms into a dead ringer of Queen Nefertiti while singing a haunting rendition of Rogers and Hart's "Where or When".

Opening with another comic monologue full of silly non-sequiturs, this time in French, the second segment is back in the studio for a brightly-colored circus medley where she interacts with animals, including her beloved poodle Sadie. She finds an appropriate context for "Sam, You Made the Pants Too Long" with a bevy of penguins and comically compares her profile to an anteater's with "We Have So Much in Common". As with the first special, the program ends with a riveting solo concert in which she sings some chestnuts, "Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home", "Where Am I Going?" and "Starting Here, Starting Now" among them. Also included is the brief introduction she filmed in 1986, ironically dressed in all-white, when the special was first released on VHS. The juxtaposition of locale and song is even more effective than in her first special, and a 23-year old Streisand is in peak form.