{"product_id":"my-life-with-barbra-a-love-story-9781573921602","title":"My Life With Barbra: A Love Story","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe time is 1959 in New York City; the scene is a quaint 9th Street apartment with candles  play scripts  and a guitar the place struggling actor Barry Dennen calls home. He shares this space with a young  ambitious  starry-eyed actress named Barbara Streisand. Their friendship was instantaneous  and then evolved into a love that could have only existed during those exuberant  youthful days in the New York theater scene days that burned themselves into Dennens memory.My Life with Barbra: A Love Story is a moving  fascinating  intimate portrait of Streisand  the three years she shared with Dennen  and the on-again  off-again relationship he has had with her for 30 years. When they met  Dennen explains  it was Streisands dream to make it as a stage actress. But he helped her discover her real talent  singing. She came to him looking for friendship  and he introduced her to the fabulous history of nightclub singing and cabaret. Through the richly textured performance education Streisand received from Dennen  the thrift shop threads their friend Terry Leong turned into stunning star outfits for her  and the tender touch of makeup artist Bob Schulenberg  Barbara became \"Barbra\" and was empowered to eventually realize that dream of fame through finding a \"style\" that set her apart from the rest.Drawn from Dennens personal experiences with Streisand  his diaries and letters from that time  My Life with Barbra takes a close look at the early years of one of todays most powerful American entertainers. From her eye-popping first smash-hit as a brand-new Broadway Star in \"I Can Get It For You Wholesale \" to her starring role in \"Funny Girl\" Dennen offers you front row seats to the making of a megastar. A treasure-trove drawn from his scrapbooks  never-before published photographs  and letters makes this book of memories a unique and enduring collectors item.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45792549765173,"sku":"ByrdShop_1573921602","price":337.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781573921602.jpg?v=1784752202","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/my-life-with-barbra-a-love-story-9781573921602","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}