The Broadway Album (1988) Album Review

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Music critics combined give The Broadway Album a score of 4.0000 out of 4

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Barbra Streisand's abandonment of Broadway was the worst thing that happened to the theater in the '60s. Read more about The Broadway Album on All Music Guide

Rolling Stone

Barbra Streisand is all mixed up. "Nobody's into this kind of material," a male voice warns her at the outset ofThe Broadway Album, on which she sings show stoppers fromCompany, West Side Story, Sweeney Todd, Porgy and Bess, Showboat, A Little Night Music, The King and I, CarouselandSunday in the Park with George. Read more about The Broadway Album on Rolling Stone

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Barbra Streisand's abandonment of Broadway was the worst thing that happened to the theater in the '60s. Her retreat from theater music on record was less of a loss, if only because she had tended to focus on second-rank composers and obscure songs
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1980's

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1988

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    6
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    3
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    1
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    3
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    1
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    2
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    1
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    2
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    1
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    13
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    1
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