Fifteen hundred bucks?

Perhaps I'm just not cultured enough, but who the hell would pay $1500 to see Barbara Streisand (much less $2500 six years ago)?

In fact, who would pay $1500 to see anybody?!?

From Pollstar:

"The promoter is Michael Cohl, who does the Rolling Stones," the source said. "The industry is freaked out about her ticket prices as the greediest ever. Her manager, Marty Erlichman, has screwed (booking agency) CAA out of their involvement, so there's a lotta bad blood out there about this one."

Representatives for Erlichman and CAA did not return calls to Pollstar at press time, and Cohl was in Japan with the Stones.

It is uncertain why the industry would consider the alleged high-end ticket price of $1,500 greedy. Babs had a higher top-end ticket of $2,500 on many stops of her last tour in 2000, where she grossed an average of $14 million a night. She sold out two nights each at Los Angeles' Staples Center and NYC's Madison Square Garden.