The Broadway Album

Barbra Streisand’s 1985 return to her Great White Way roots gives the storied singer a chance to show off her prowess and versatility. While much of <i>The Broadway Album</i> is made up of works by Stephen Sondheim—who added Babs-tailored lyrics to the luminous ballad “Send in the Clowns” and the frenetic “Putting It Together”, and whose co-write “Somewhere” quickly became one of Streisand’s standards—her vampy version of the sneeze-afflicted “Adelaide’s Lament” (from Frank Loesser’s <i>Guys and Dolls</i>) shows off the belter’s keen comedic instincts.