The Broadway Album

The Broadway Album
Studio album by Barbra Streisand
Released	November 4, 1985[1]
Recorded	Spring–Summer 1985[2]
Studio	A&M (Hollywood) Evergreen (Burbank) Lighthouse (North Hollywood) Randy Waldman (North Hollywood) Village Recorder (Los Angeles) Westlake (Los Angeles)
Genre	Vocal pop show tunes
Length	47:44
Label	Columbia
Producer	Richard Baskin Bob Esty David Foster Paul Jabara Peter Matz Kim Skalecki Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand chronology
Emotion (1984) The Broadway Album (1985) One Voice (1987)
Singles from Emotion
"Somewhere" Released: October 1985 "Send In the Clowns" Released: March 1986

The Broadway Album is the twenty-fourth studio album by American singer Barbra Streisand, released by Columbia Records on November 4, 1985. Consisting mainly of classic show tunes, the album marked a major shift in Streisand's career. She had spent ten years appearing in musicals and singing standards on her albums in the 1960s. Beginning with the album Stoney End in 1971 and ending with the album Emotion in 1984, Streisand sang mostly rock, pop, folk, and disco-oriented songs for Columbia records. Noted Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim personally penned additional lyrics for the songs "Putting It Together" and "Send in the Clowns" on request of the singer.^[3] The album, originally released on the Columbia label and subsequently re-released by Columbia and Sony Records, was a critical and commercial success. First certified gold by the RIAA on January 13, 1986, it reached four times platinum on January 31, 1995.

The album was accompanied by a television special, Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album.^{[citation needed]} The original LP and cassette releases contained 11 tracks, while the CD release included the bonus track "Adelaide's Lament".^[4] Columbia re-released The Broadway Album in 2002 with an additional bonus track, originally cut in 1985, "I Know Him So Well". The album sold 7.5 million copies worldwide.