Timeless: Live in Concert

Disc 1
1	Opening/You'll Never Know 2:31
2	Something's Coming / Lauren Frost 3:41
3	The Way We Were 4:18
4	Shirley Maclaine Y1k 4:41
5	Cry Me a River 3:14
6	Lover, Come Back to Me 2:54
7	A Sleepin' Bee 3:43
8	Miss Marmelstein 2:27
9	I'm the Greatest Star/Second Hand Rose/Don't Rain on My Parade [Medley] 5:21
10	Something Wonderful/Being Alive [Medley] 4:35
11	As Time Goes/Speak Low [Medley] 2:10
12	Alfie 4:02
13	Evergreen 4:04
14	Dialogue (Father, Pt. 1) 1:18
15	Papa Can You Hear Me?/You'll Never Know 3:20
16	A Piece of Sky / Lauren Frost 3:13
Disc 2
1	Entr'acte 2:21
2	Putting It Together 3:35
3	On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) 2:27
4	Send in the Clowns 3:06
5	Happy Days Are Here Again/Get Happy/Guilty/I Finally Found Someone / Judy Garland 2:07
6	Sing/I've Got a Crush on You / Frank Sinatra Orchestra 3:22
7	Technology (Dialogue) 2:03
8	The Clicker Blues 0:58
9	Simple Pleasures 3:02
10	The Main Event/Fight 4:07
11	Dialogue (Father, Pt. 2) 1:35
12	I Dreamed of You 3:24
13	At the Same Time 4:53
14	Auld Lang Syne (Ballad) 1:49
15	Dialogue (Barbra/Brother Time) / Savion Glover 0:51
16	People 3:46
17	New Year's Eve/Auld Lang Syne (Celebration) 6:00
18	Everytime You Hear Auld Lang Syne Barbra/Audience 4:22
19	Happy Days Are Here Again 3:33
20	Don't Like Goodbyes 1:42
21	I Believe/Somewhere 8:42

Barnes & Noble

How many performers could call a release Timeless and have it be an understatement? How many singers could record an album precisely as last century gave way to a new Millennium and not be upstaged by Father Time? Only one --Barbra Streisand. Staged last New Year's at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Timeless- Live In Concert is the Mega-Diva's fifth live recording in as many decades. Here, the Greatest Star has concocted a musical spectacular based on her amazing life and accomplishments that even includes reenactments of pivotal moments in the superstar's development. Divided into two euphonious acts and conducted by Marvin Hamlisch, this two-disc, 37 track lovefest is smashing on all levels. At 58, Streisand's voice continues to amaze with undiminished power and precision as well as her awesome ability to bring vibrant three-dimensional life to her repertoire. Signature tunes "Cry Me A River," "Lover, Come Back To Me," "People" and "The Way We Were" shine alongside cult classics like "Miss Marmelstein," from Streisand's first Broadway show, 1962's "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" a stinging version of Harold Arlen's "A Sleepin' Bee" and an "Alfie" that outclasses the star's 1969 original. The former Empress of Erasmus Hall also counts down the new century, muses on technology ("The Clicker Blues") and offers a knockout "The Main Event." If Streisand makes good on her promise to retire from live performance, we should be particularly grateful for Timeless, as it's nigh impossible that the standards set over her long and legendary career will ever be surpassed. David Cohen

All Music Guide

Timeless: Live in Concert, recorded at her Las Vegas show on New Year's Eve 1999, takes as its subject the star herself. It opens with a dramatization of her first, amateur recording session, with young Lauren Frost playing a part described in the credits as "Young Girl," though Streisand later refers to her as "mini-me." Frost doesn't get too far before being joined by Streisand herself on a stirring version of "Something's Coming" from West Side Story. The rest of "Act One" traces Streisand's career from her club days to her movie performances. "Act Two" has less of a narrative structure, though it is equally autobiographical, with Streisand displaying and commenting on videos of herself performing with other stars and building up to the stroke of midnight with a combination of old, recent, and new specially written songs. At 57 that night, Streisand remains in good voice, and the old warhorses, among them inevitable hits like "People," "Evergreen," and "The Way We Were," sound, well, like they always do. More interesting are songs that, while previously recorded, have not been heard live before, especially "Alfie," which the singer confesses to having forgotten she ever did. But unless you are a big Streisand fan, you may want to stick to the studio albums on which she just sings. The extensive stage remarks here include comic interludes such as a dialogue with Shirley MacLaine and negative opinions about new technology, but for the most part they center on the singer herself. Timeless was issued a week before what were said to be her final concerts in September 2000. William Ruhlmann