152-607: Essendon Football Club (2000–present) St Kilda Football Club (2000–present) Western Bulldogs (2000–present) North Melbourne Football Club (2000–present) Carlton Football Club (2005–present) Melbourne Renegades ( BBL ; 2011–present) Docklands Stadium , known by naming rights sponsorship as Marvel Stadium , is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment stadium in the suburb of Docklands in Melbourne , Victoria, Australia . Construction started in October 1997 and
304-475: A gay nightclub in Manhattan's Greenwich Village . She performed two songs, after which there was a "stunned silence" from the audience, followed by "thunderous applause" when she was pronounced the winner. She was invited back and sang at the club for several weeks. During this time, disliking her name, she changed it from "Barbara" to "Barbra". In early days of her career Streisand was repeatedly told she
456-583: A "great voice" and sang semi-professionally on occasion. In a 2016 interview with Rosie O'Donnell , Streisand recounted that when she was 13, she and her mother recorded some songs on tape during a visit to the Catskills . That session was the first time Streisand ever asserted herself as an artist, which also became her "first moment of inspiration." She has an older brother, Sheldon, and a half-sister, singer Roslyn Kind , from her mother's remarriage to Louis Kind in 1950. Streisand began her education at
608-418: A "stabilizing influence." When she was 21, Streisand signed a contract with Columbia Records that gave her full creative control, in exchange for less money. Lieberson relented and agreed to sign her. Nearly three decades later, Streisand said: The most important thing about that first contract – actually, the thing we held out for – was a unique clause giving me the right to choose my own material. It
760-513: A $ 225 million redevelopment, funded by the AFL and Victorian Government , between 2021 and 2024. This included two new video screens, which hang underneath the stadium's roof and were installed behind the goal at each end of the stadium ahead of the 2022 AFL season . The rest of the redevelopment upgraded stadium infrastructure, connected the precinct to the Melbourne CBD and opened up access to
912-460: A 6th successive grand final with wins over Footscray by 8 points in the first semi-final and Collingwood by 2 points in the preliminary final. The Dons sustained numerous injuries in the preliminary final, and the selectors sprang a surprise on Grand Final day by naming the officially retired Dick Reynolds as 20th man. Reynolds was powerless to prevent the inevitable; although leading at half-time, Geelong kicked five goals to Essendon's two points in
1064-502: A PTA assembly, where she became a hit to everyone but her mother, who was mostly critical of her daughter. Streisand was invited to sing at weddings and summer camp, along with having an unsuccessful audition at MGM records when she was nine. By the time she was 13, her mother began supporting her talent, helping her make a four-song demo tape, including " Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart " and " You'll Never Know ". Becoming an actress
1216-622: A River " into something comparable to Enrico Caruso having his first bash at Pagliacci . When Streisand cries you a river, you got a river, Sam ... and she will be around 50 years from now if good songs are still written to be sung by good singers. —syndicated columnist Robert Ruark , on her 1963 performances at the Blue Angel. Streisand accepted her first role on the New York stage in Another Evening with Harry Stoones ,
1368-440: A coach, a position to which he was first appointed, jointly with Harry Hunter, in 1939 (this was while Reynolds was still a player). A year later he took the reins on a solo basis and was rewarded with immediate success (at least in terms of expectations at the time which, after so long in the wilderness, were somewhat modest). He was regarded as having a sound tactical knowledge of the game and being an inspirational leader, as he led
1520-429: A drawn second semi-final against Collingwood to make it through to the grand final a week later with a score of 10.16 (76) to 8.9 (57). Then, in the grand final against Melbourne, Essendon set a grand final record score of 22.18 (150) to Melbourne 13.9 (87), featuring a 7-goal performance by centre half-forward Gordon Lane . Rover Bill Hutchinson, and defenders Wally Buttsworth, Cec Ruddell and Harold Lambert were among
1672-534: A duet, on the Tonight Show , that Erlichman was a "fantastic manager" and still managed her career after 50 years. While appearing at the Blue Angel, theater director and playwright Arthur Laurents asked her to audition for a new musical comedy he was directing, I Can Get It for You Wholesale . She got the part of secretary to the lead actor businessman, played by then unknown Elliott Gould . They fell in love during rehearsals and eventually moved into
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#17327718177571824-722: A few years of the move. However, the VFA, desperate for its own strategic reasons not to lose its use of the North Melbourne Cricket Ground, successfully appealed to the State Government to block Essendon's move to North Melbourne. With its preferred option off the table, the club returned to Essendon, and the Essendon VFA club disbanded, with most of its players moving to North Melbourne. The old "Same Olds" nickname fell into disuse, and by 1922
1976-535: A greater range. Streisand improved her stage presence when speaking to the audience between songs. She discovered that her Brooklyn-bred style of humor was received favorably. During the next six months appearing at the club, some began comparing her singing voice to famous names such as Judy Garland , Lena Horne and Fanny Brice . Her conversational ability to charm an audience with spontaneous humor during performances became more sophisticated and professional. Theater critic Leonard Harris wrote: "She's twenty; by
2128-450: A guitarist to accompany her:. We spent the afternoon taping, and the moment I heard the first playback I went insane ... This nutty little kook had one of the most breathtaking voices I'd ever heard ... when she was finished and I turned off the machine, I needed a long moment before I dared look up at her. Dennen grew enthusiastic and he convinced her to enter a talent contest at the Lion,
2280-476: A hard-fought grand final to Richmond in 1943 by 5 points, finished 3rd in 1944, and dropped to 8th in 1945. After World War II, Essendon enjoyed great success. In the five years immediately after the war, Essendon won 3 premierships ( 1946 , 1949 , 1950 ) and were runners up twice ( 1947 , 1948 ). In 1946 , Essendon were clearly the VFL's supreme force, topping the ladder after the home-and-away games and surviving
2432-509: A head injury years earlier. The family fell into near poverty, with her mother working as a low-paid bookkeeper. As an adult, Streisand remembered those early years as always feeling like an "outcast", explaining, "Everybody else's father came home from work at the end of the day. Mine didn't." Her mother tried to pay their bills but could not give her daughter the attention she craved: "When I wanted love from my mother, she gave me food," Streisand says. Streisand recalled that her mother had
2584-617: A new grandstand, scoreboard and re-fencing of the oval. The club's first preference was to move to North Melbourne —a move which the North Melbourne Football Club (then in the VFA) saw as an opportunity to get into the VFL. Most of Essendon's members and players were from the North Melbourne area, and sportswriters believed that Essendon would have been taken over by or rebranded as North Melbourne within only
2736-462: A nightclub until I sang in one." Dennen now wanted to expose Streisand to his vast record collection of female singers, including Billie Holiday , Mabel Mercer , Ethel Waters , and Édith Piaf . Streisand realized she could still become an actress by first gaining recognition as a singer. From his collection she drew the song that best defined her mission in singing: A Sleepin' Bee , with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Truman Capote for
2888-486: A non-playing capacity, Essendon seemed on course for a third consecutive flag, but a controversial four-week suspension dished out to John Coleman on the eve of the finals effectively destroyed their chances. Coleman was reported for retaliation after twice being struck by his direct Carlton opponent, Harry Caspar, and without him the Dons were rated a four-goals-poorer team. Nevertheless, they still managed to battle their way to
3040-423: A quarter-time huddle where both coaches exchanged heated words. Essendon had tough but talented players with the likes of "Rotten Ronnie" Ron Andrews and experienced players such as Barry Davis , Ken Fletcher , Geoff Blethyn , Neville Fields and West Australian import Graham Moss . In May 1974, a controversial half-time all-in-brawl with Richmond at Windy Hill and a 1975 encounter with Carlton were testimony of
3192-618: A satirical comedy play in which she acted and sang two solos. The show received terrible reviews and closed the next day. With the help of her new personal manager, Martin Erlichman , she had successful shows in Detroit and St. Louis. Erlichman then booked her at an even more upscale nightclub in Manhattan , the Blue Angel, where she became a bigger hit during the period from 1961 to 1962. Streisand once told Jimmy Fallon , with whom she sang
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#17327718177573344-561: A senior club from the 1878 season . During its early years in the Association, Essendon played its home matches at Flemington Hill, but it moved to the East Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1881. In 1878, at Flemington Hill, Essendon played its first match on what would be considered by modern standards to be a full-sized field. In 1879, Essendon played Melbourne in one of the earliest night matches recorded when
3496-543: A small apartment together. The show opened on March 22, 1962, at the Shubert Theater , and received rave reviews. Her performance "stopped the show cold", wrote Nickens. Groucho Marx , while hosting the Tonight Show , told her that 20 was an "extremely young age to be a success on Broadway". Streisand received a Tony Award nomination and New York Drama Critic's prize for Best Supporting Actress. The show
3648-656: A star." Streisand took a job as an usher at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater for The Sound of Music early in 1960. During the run of the play, she heard that the casting director was auditioning for more singers, and it marked the first time she sang in pursuit of a job. Although the director felt she was not right for the part, he encouraged her to begin including her talent as a singer on her résumé when looking for other work. Streisand asked her boyfriend, Barry Dennen , to tape her singing, copies of which she could then give out to possible employers. Dennen found
3800-459: A succession of injuries to key players Paul Van der Haar (only fifteen games from 1986 to 1988), Tim Watson , Darren Williams , Roger Merrett and Simon Madden led the club to win only eight of its last eighteen games in 1986 and only nine games (plus a draw with Geelong ) in 1987. In July 1987, the Bombers suffered a humiliation at the hands of Sydney , who fell two points short of scoring
3952-551: A two-night New Year's event at the MGM Grand Las Vegas led to a multi-city tour in the summer of 1994. Tickets for the tour sold out in under an hour. Streisand also appeared on the covers of major magazines in anticipation of what Time magazine named "The Music Event of the Century". The tour was one of the biggest all-media merchandise parlays in history. Ticket prices ranged from US$ 50 to US$ 1,500, making Streisand
4104-538: Is Jewish . Her paternal grandparents emigrated from Galicia (modern-day Poland and Ukraine ) in the Austro-Hungarian Empire , and her maternal grandparents from the Russian Empire , where her grandfather had been a cantor . In August 1943, a few months after Streisand's first birthday, her father died at age 34 from complications from an epileptic seizure , possibly the result of
4256-548: Is located on a public pedestrian concourse adjoining the northern end of the station. The stadium is serviced by several tram routes: The stadium has a 500-vehicle carpark underneath the field, which is accessible by the public for event days. The venue appeared in the 2007 film Ghost Rider . Its name, wherever visible, was digitally changed to the SoBe Dome . It can be seen in the video for Jessica Mauboy 's single " Running Back ", as well as some television shows, such as
4408-416: Is one of her favorite singers. In 1993, The New York Times music critic Stephen Holden wrote that Streisand "enjoys a cultural status that only one other American entertainer, Frank Sinatra, has achieved in the last half century". In September 1993, Streisand announced her first public concert appearances in 27 years (discounting her Las Vegas nightclub performances between 1969 and 1972). What began as
4560-485: Is reportedly still the most commercially successful duet, (US No. 1); " You Don't Bring Me Flowers " (with Neil Diamond ) (US No. 1); and "The Main Event" (US No. 3), some of which came from soundtrack recordings of her films. As the 1970s ended, Streisand was named the most successful female singer in the U.S. — only Elvis Presley and The Beatles had sold more albums. In 1980, she released her best-selling effort to date,
4712-625: Is the most of any club in the competition. The club won four consecutive VFA premierships between 1891 and 1894, a feat unmatched in that competition's history. Essendon also hold the distinction of being the only club to win a premiership in their inaugural season (1897). It has struggled to achieve significant on-field success in the 21st century, however, having won its last premiership in 2000 and last final in 2004 . Three Essendon players— John Coleman , Bill Hutchison , and Dick Reynolds —and one coach, Kevin Sheedy , are classified as " Legends " in
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4864-695: Is thought to have been formed in 1872 at a meeting it the home of a well-known brewery family, the McCrackens, whose Ascot Vale property hosted a team of local junior players. Robert McCracken (1813–1885), the owner of several city hotels, was the founder and first president of the Essendon Football Club, and his son, Alex McCracken , its first secretary. Alex later became president of the newly formed VFL. Alex's cousin Collier McCracken, who had already played with Melbourne ,
5016-475: The 1897 VFL finals series in a round-robin event. Essendon again won the premiership in 1901 , defeating Collingwood in the Grand Final . The club won successive premierships in 1911 and 1912 over Collingwood and South Melbourne , respectively. The club is recorded as having played at McCracken's Paddock, Glass's Paddock, and Flemington Hill. It is likely that these are three different names for
5168-729: The 1926 season , it was to be 14 years later—in 1940 —before Essendon would even contest a finals series. After the malaise of the late 1920s and early 1930, the 1933 season proved a turning point in morale despite no finals entries for the entire 1930s. Essendon saw the debut of the player regarded as one of the game's greatest-ever players, Dick Reynolds . His impact was immediate. He won his first Brownlow Medal aged 19. His record of three Brownlow victories ( 1934 , 1937 , 1938 ), equalled Fitzroy 's Haydn Bunton, Sr ( 1931 , 1932 , 1935 ), and later equalled by Bob Skilton (1959, 1963, 1968), and Ian Stewart ( 1965 , 1966 , 1971 ). Reynolds went on to arguably even greater achievements as
5320-517: The 2010 NRL season while awaiting the completion of their then new home ground AAMI Park . In 2023, the Storm returned to play two games at the ground, while AAMI Park was unavailable in July–August due to the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup . Docklands has also hosted interstate and international rugby league games. As Telstra Dome, Docklands hosted its first State of Origin game in 2006 as it hosted
5472-526: The Adelaide Strikers . Although rare, multiple players have hit the roof during a game, which is 38 metres (125 feet) above the playing surface. For example, in 2018, Perth Scorchers batsman Ashton Turner hit a Dan Christian delivery into the roof; under the BBL rules, such a hit is considered to be six runs , with the ball being considered dead and unable to be caught for the purpose of getting
5624-789: The Australian Football Hall of Fame . Essendon also fields reserve men's and women's teams in the Victoria Football League and VFL Women's , respectively. Since 2022 (S7), it has fielded a senior women's team in the national AFL Women's competition. The club was founded by members of the Royal Agricultural Society, the Melbourne Hunt Club and the Victorian Woolbrokers. The Essendon Football Club
5776-567: The Barry Gibb -produced Guilty . The album contained the hits " Woman in Love " (which spent several weeks on top of the pop charts in the fall of 1980), " Guilty ", and " What Kind of Fool ". After years of largely ignoring Broadway and traditional pop music in favor of more contemporary material, Streisand returned to her musical-theater roots. Columbia Records objected that the songs she wanted to sing were not pop songs, but Streisand asserted
5928-613: The City of Essendon , James Taylor, on the basis that the considered the Essendon Cricket Ground "to be suitable only for the gentleman's game of cricket". The club became known by the nickname "the Same Old Essendon" from the title and hook of the principal song performed by a band of supporters which regularly occupied a section of the grandstand at the club's games. The nickname first appeared in print in
6080-597: The Melbourne Cricket Ground was unavailable due to preparations for the 2006 Commonwealth Games . The venue has also hosted international rugby union – including being Melbourne's venue during the 2003 Rugby World Cup – although the Melbourne Rectangular Stadium now hosts most such games. The venue has hosted international basketball, Rugby 7s at the 2006 Commonwealth Games , a 2002 non-televised WWE live event as part of
6232-631: The North Melbourne Football Club in both the Second Semi-Final and the Grand Final to secure consecutive VFL premierships for the third time. Best afield in the 1950 Grand Final , in what was officially his swan song as a player, was captain-coach Dick Reynolds , who received sterling support from the likes of Norm McDonald, ruckman/back pocket Wally May , back pocket Les Gardiner , and ruckman McLure. With Reynolds, aka 'King Richard', still holding court as coach in 1951, albeit now in
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6384-557: The Pacific Theatre opened in December 1941. Australian sports competition was considerably weakened, with Geelong being forced to pull out of the competition due petrol rationing. Attendances at games also declined dramatically, whilst some clubs had to move from their normal grounds due to them being used for military purposes. Many players were lost to football due to their military service. Nevertheless, Essendon went on to win
6536-614: The Prince of Wales Theatre . From 1965 to 1968 she appeared in her first four solo television specials, including the Emmy Award –winning My Name is Barbra . Streisand has recorded 50 studio albums, almost all with Columbia Records . Her early works in the 1960s (her debut The Barbra Streisand Album , The Second Barbra Streisand Album , The Third Album , My Name Is Barbra , etc.) are considered classic renditions of theatre and cabaret standards, including her pensive version of
6688-674: The Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award ; and the Presidential Medal of Freedom . Streisand was born April 24, 1942, in Brooklyn , New York City , to Diana Ida ( née Rosen; 1908–2002) and Emanuel Streisand (1908–1943). Her mother had been a soprano in her youth and considered a career in music, but later became a school secretary. Her father was a high school teacher at the same school, where they first met. Streisand's family
6840-713: The Seven Network 's City Homicide and Network Ten 's Rush . Essendon Football Club The Essendon Football Club , nicknamed the Bombers or colloquially the Dons , is a professional Australian rules football club that plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), the game's premier competition. The club was formed by the McCracken family in their Ascot Vale home "Alisa" adopting
6992-579: The Seven Network 's digital broadcast centre and an NAB branch. Plans for the stadium were announced in October 1996 as a more centrally located replacement for the much larger but ageing Waverley Park as a headquarters for the Australian Football League . It was built in the Melbourne Docklands to the immediate west of the CBD, a central but largely deserted industrial area which had just begun its own urban renewal project. Construction of
7144-519: The WWE Global Warning Tour: Melbourne , the 2015 UFC 193 in front of a then-record UFC attendance of 56,214 fans, a motorcycle speedway event (when it played host to the 2015 Speedway Grand Prix of Australia on a 346 metres (378 yards) long temporary track), and a controversial international darts event in 2015 in which spectators seated on the arena started throwing chairs and furniture. Outside of sporting events,
7296-726: The Winter Garden Theatre . The show introduced two of her signature songs, "People" and " Don't Rain on My Parade ." Because of the musical's overnight success, she appeared on the cover of Time . In 1964, Streisand was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical but lost to Carol Channing in Hello, Dolly ! Streisand received an honorary "Star of the Decade" Tony Award in 1970. In 1966, Streisand repeated her success with Funny Girl in London's West End at
7448-460: The 1942 Premiership with Western Australian Wally Buttsworth in irrepressible form at centre half-back. Finally, the long-awaited premiership was Essendon's after comprehensively outclassing Richmond in the grand final, 19.18 (132) to 11.13 (79). The match was played at Carlton in front of 49,000 spectators. In any case, there could be no such reservations about Essendon's next premiership, which came just four years later. Prior to that Essendon lost
7600-439: The 1948 grand final. A week later Essendon waved the premiership good-bye, as Melbourne raced to a 13.11 (89) to 7.8 (50) triumph. The club's Annual Report made an assessment that was at once restrained and, as was soon to emerge, tacitly and uncannily prophetic: "It is very apparent that no team is complete without a spearhead and your committee has high hopes of rectifying that fault this coming season." The 1949 season heralded
7752-456: The 1950s. The nearest miss came in 1957 when the Bombers (as they were popularly known by this time) earned premiership favouritism after a superb 16-point Second Semi-Final defeat of Melbourne—only to lose by over 10 goals against the same side a fortnight later . 1959 saw another grand final loss to Melbourne, this time by 37 points, but the fact that the average age of the Essendon side
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#17327718177577904-451: The 1954 musical House of Flowers . "The lyrics to that song gave me the three acts of a play that I longed for as an actress," Streisand said. "And Harold was one of those writers who could write these magnificent melodies. That gave me what I needed." According to biographer Christopher Nickens, hearing other great female singers benefited her style, as she began creating different emotional characters when performing, which gave her singing
8056-473: The Bombers were no match for Geelong next week. Barbra Streisand Barbara Joan " Barbra " Streisand ( / ˈ s t r aɪ s æ n d / STRY -sand ; born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, songwriter, producer, and director. With a career spanning over six decades, she has achieved success across multiple fields of entertainment, being the first performer awarded an EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) . Streisand's career began in
8208-659: The Docklands Stadium since the league's inception in 2011/12. A drop-in pitch is used to facilitate cricket at the venue. At the end of the 2016/17 Big Bash, the stadium was rated the most entertaining venue for T20 cricket in Australia. In 2016, Chris Gayle of the Renegades and the West Indies tied the record for the fastest T20 half century (12 balls) during the last round of BBL 5 at the ground against
8360-589: The Docklands waterfront. The redevelopment was completed in March 2024. In May 2023, Docklands Stadium opened The Runner, becoming the first venue in the Southern Hemisphere to utilise Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology for checkout-free purchases. The Runner outlets, consisting of one bar and one food kiosk, work by having attendees scanning their credit or debit card, or mobile wallet payment option at
8512-809: The Essendon Cricket Ground, and playing in the Victorian Football Association . It was known firstly as Essendon Town and, after 1905, as Essendon (although it was often called Essendon A, with the A standing for association). After the 1921 season, the East Melbourne Cricket Ground was closed and demolished to expand the Flinders Street Railyard . Having played at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground from 1882 to 1921, and having won four VFA premierships (1891–1894) and four VFL premierships ( 1897 , 1901 , 1911 and 1912 ) whilst there, Essendon
8664-699: The Essendon Recreation Ground, known as Windy Hill , from 1922 to 2013, the club moved to The Hangar in Tullamarine in late 2013 on land owned by the Melbourne Airport corporation. The club shares its home games between Docklands Stadium and the Melbourne Cricket Ground . Zach Merrett is the current club captain . Essendon is one of Australia's best-known and most successful football clubs. It has won 16 VFL/AFL premierships, which, along with Carlton and Collingwood ,
8816-483: The Grand Final in 1983, the first time since 1968. Hawthorn won by a then record 83 points. In 1984, Essendon won the pre-season competition and completed the regular season on top of the ladder. The club played, and beat, Hawthorn in the 1984 VFL Grand Final to win their 13th premiership—their first since 1965. The teams met again in the 1985 Grand Final , which Essendon also won. At the start of 1986 , Essendon were considered unbackable for three successive flags, but
8968-539: The Hill" (from Finian's Rainbow and Brigadoon , respectively), " All I Ask of You " (from The Phantom of the Opera ), "Warm All Over" (from The Most Happy Fella ), and an unusual solo version of " Make Our Garden Grow " (from Candide ). Streisand was not happy with the direction of the project and it was scrapped. Only "Warm All Over" and a reworked, lite FM-friendly version of "All I Ask of You" were ever released,
9120-572: The Jewish Orthodox Yeshiva of Brooklyn when she was five. She was considered bright and inquisitive; however, she lacked discipline, often shouting answers to questions out of turn. She next attended Public School 89 in Brooklyn, and during those early school years began watching television and going to movies. "I always wanted to be somebody, to be famous... You know, get out of Brooklyn." Streisand became known by others in
9272-555: The Melbourne Cricket Ground, leading to a push from tenant clubs Carlton , Essendon and St Kilda to reduce their annual matches at the ground. The stadium was eventually integrated into the AFL structure several years later, ending the independent management of the venue by Melbourne Stadiums Limited. The purchase also soon proved critically important to the AFL's finances during the COVID-19 pandemic , when it
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#17327718177579424-515: The New York City stage. After renting a small apartment on 48th St. in the heart of the theater district, she accepted any job she could involving the stage, and at every opportunity, she "made the rounds" of the casting offices. Living on her own at 16, Streisand took various menial jobs to have some income. During one period, she lacked a permanent address, and found herself sleeping at the home of friends or anywhere else she could set up
9576-654: The Northern end of the stadium in particular receives only 6 weeks of sunlight a year. Concerts held at the stadium are also usually placed at the Southern end due to the ability for grass to recover more quickly. The entire surface undergoes regular, expensive replacement during the season with turf grown externally, under contract by HG Turf, whereas the responsibility of laying and managing the turf lies with Docklands Stadium management. Since 2007, elaborate heating and lighting to better allow grass to be grown and managed within
9728-578: The Round 8 clash with the North Melbourne Football Club at Essendon. Aged just 25, he had kicked 537 goals in only 98 VFL games in what was generally a fairly low-scoring period for the game. His meteoric rise and fall were clearly the stuff of legend, and few (if any) players, either before or since, have had such an immense impact over so brief a period. According to Alf Brown , football writer for The Herald : Somewhat more colourfully, R.S. Whittington suggested: Without Coleman, Essendon's fortunes plummeted, and there were to be no further premierships in
9880-511: The US Billboard 200 chart with 11 albums (the record for a woman until 2023), including People (1964), The Way We Were (1974), Guilty (1980), and The Broadway Album (1985). She also topped the US Billboard Hot 100 with five singles: " The Way We Were ", " Evergreen ", " You Don't Bring Me Flowers " (with Neil Diamond ), " No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) " (with Donna Summer ), and " Woman in Love ". Following her established recording success, Streisand ventured into film by
10032-434: The United States, with 68.5 million certified album units. Billboard ranked Streisand as the greatest solo artist on the Billboard 200 chart and the top Adult Contemporary female artist of all time. Her accolades span ten Grammy Awards , including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Grammy Legend Award ; nine Golden Globe Awards ; five Emmy Awards ; four Peabody Awards ; two Academy Awards ;
10184-406: The acting theories of Konstantin Stanislavski and Michael Chekhov . In 1956, she attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, where she became an honor student in modern history, English, and Spanish. She also joined the Freshman Chorus and Choral Club, where she sang with another choir member and classmate, Neil Diamond . Diamond recalls, "We were two poor kids in Brooklyn. We hung out in
10336-455: The army cot she carried around. When desperate, she returned to her mother's flat in Brooklyn for a home-cooked meal. However, her mother was horrified by her daughter's "gypsy-like lifestyle", wrote biographer Karen Swenson , and again begged her to give up trying to get into show business, but Streisand took her mother's pleadings as even more reason to keep trying: "My desires were strengthened by wanting to prove to my mother that I could be
10488-401: The arrival on the VFL scene of John Coleman , arguably the greatest player in Essendon's history, and, in the view of some, the finest player the game has known. In his first ever appearance for the Dons, against Hawthorn in Round 1, 1949, he booted 12 of his side's 18 goals to create a round one record which was to endure for forty-five years. More importantly, however, he went on to maintain
10640-431: The ball was painted white. In 1883, the team played four matches in eight days in Adelaide: losing to Norwood (on 23 June) and defeating Port Adelaide (on 16 June), a combined South Australian team (on 18 June), and South Adelaide (on 20 June). The club played against the touring British footballers in 1888 . In 1891, Essendon won their first VFA premiership, which they repeated in 1892 , 1893 and 1894 . One of
10792-399: The batsman out. The first time it was used for soccer was in 2001 between South Melbourne and Melbourne Knights in the NSL. A-League team Melbourne Victory played home matches at the stadium between 2006–07 and 2020–21. Originally, the plan was that the stadium would only be used for games against its biggest rivals, Sydney FC , in the 2006–07 A-League; but after the success of that game,
10944-411: The best players. The 1947 Grand Final has to go down in the ledger as 'one of the ones that got away', with Essendon losing to Carlton by a single point despite managing 30 scoring shots to 21. As if to prove that lightning does occasionally strike twice, the second of the 'ones that got away' came just a year later, the Dons finishing with a lamentable 7.27, to tie with Melbourne (who managed 10.9) in
11096-507: The cast recording of I Can Get It for You Wholesale . Also that spring, she participated in a 25th anniversary studio recording of Pins and Needles , the classic popular front musical originated in 1937 by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union . Reviews of both albums highlighted Streisand's performances. In May 1962, Streisand appeared on The Garry Moore Show , where she sang "Happy Days Are Here Again" for
11248-426: The club shifted permanently from Olympic Park Stadium to Docklands from the 2006–07 season until the 2009–10 season. This gave the stadium its first major summer tenant. After the opening of the Melbourne Rectangular Stadium in 2010, the club played only high-drawing games and finals at Docklands, with all other games being played at the new stadium; and as of the 2022–23 season, Victory ceased playing home matches at
11400-564: The club's greatest players, Albert Thurgood , played for the club during this period, making his debut in 1892. Essendon (18 wins, 2 draws) was undefeated in the 1893 season. At the end of the 1896 season , Essendon, along with seven other clubs, formed the Victorian Football League . Essendon's first VFL game was in 1897 against Geelong at Corio Oval in Geelong . Essendon won its first VFL premiership by winning
11552-554: The day, she found herself out of her element with rock. Her vocal talents prevailed, and she gained newfound success with the pop and ballad-oriented Richard Perry -produced album Stoney End in 1971. The title track , written by Laura Nyro , was a major hit for Streisand. During the 1970s, she was also highly prominent on the pop charts, with Top 10 recordings such as " The Way We Were " (US No. 1); " Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born) " (US No. 1); " No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) " (1979, with Donna Summer ), which as of 2010
11704-415: The deciding third game. As Etihad Stadium, the stadium also hosted Origin games in 2009 and 2012 . The 2012 match attracted 56,021, a new record for rugby league at the stadium. The stadium has been converted to host several other sporting events. In its early years, the stadium was used for off-season one day international cricket matches, but has also held some summer matches, particularly in 2006 when
11856-542: The early 1960s performing in nightclubs and Broadway theaters. Following guest appearances on various television shows, she signed to Columbia Records —retaining full artistic control in exchange for accepting lower pay, an arrangement that continued throughout her career. Her studio debut The Barbra Streisand Album (1963) won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year . Throughout her recording career, Streisand has topped
12008-492: The end of the 1960s. She starred in the critically acclaimed Funny Girl (1968), winning the Academy Award for Best Actress at the 41st Academy Awards . Additional fame on the big screen followed with the extravagant musical Hello, Dolly! (1969), the screwball comedy What's Up, Doc? (1972), and the romantic drama The Way We Were (1973). Streisand won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for writing
12160-443: The entry, entering to collect their items, and then leaving the outlet without having to wait in line to checkout. The outlets utilises cameras, sensors, machine learning algorithms, motion tracking and artificial intelligence like computer vision and deep learning techniques, including generative AI, to accurately determine who took what in any retail environment. Under the terms of the agreement governing construction and operation of
12312-534: The era. Following the Carlton match, the Herald described Windy Hill as "Boot Hill" because of the extent of the fights and the high number of reported players (eight in all—four from Carlton and four from Essendon). The peak of these incidents occurred in 1980 with new recruit Phil Carman making headlines for head-butting an umpire. The tribunal suspended him for sixteen weeks, and although most people thought this
12464-401: The finals in 4th place, but once there they suddenly ignited to put in one of the most consistently devastating September performances in VFL history. Collingwood succumbed first as the Dons powered their way to an 82-point first semi-final victory, and a fortnight later it was the turn of the North Melbourne Football Club as Essendon won the preliminary final a good deal more comfortably than
12616-400: The finals. Coleman's time as coach turned out to be much like his playing career: highly successful but cut short when he had to stand down due to health problems in 1967. Only six years later, on the eve of the 1973 season , he died of a heart attack at just 44 years of age. Following Coleman's retirement, the club experienced tough times on and off the field. Finals appearances were rare for
12768-508: The first (and for 37 years, the only) woman to win that award. Streisand later produced and directed The Prince of Tides (1991), and The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996). With sales exceeding 150 million records worldwide, Streisand is one of the best-selling recording artists of all time . According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), she is the second-highest certified female artist in
12920-723: The first time in decades, Essendon reached the final four for the first time since 1912 , finishing in third place. In the 1923 season , the club topped the ladder with 13 wins from 16 games. After a 17-point Second Semi-Final loss to South Melbourne , Essendon defeated Fitzroy (who had beaten South Melbourne) in the 1923 Grand Final (then known as a "Challenge Final" due to its different finals format): Essendon 8.15 (63) to Fitzroy 6.10 (46). Amongst Essendon's best players were half-forward flanker George "Tich" Shorten , centre half-forward Justin McCarthy , centre half-back Tom Fitzmaurice , rover Frank Maher , and wingman Jack Garden . This
13072-480: The first time. Her sad, slow version of the 1930s upbeat Democratic Party theme song became her signature song during this early phase of her career. Johnny Carson had her on the Tonight Show half a dozen times in 1962 and 1963, and she became a favorite of his television audience and himself personally. He described her as an "exciting new singer." During one show, she joked with Groucho Marx, who liked her style of humor. She did three or four songs, and she
13224-432: The following season. However, the club blitzed the opposition in 1962 , losing only two matches and finishing top of the table. Both losses were to the previous year's grand finalists. The finals posed no problems for the resurgent Dons, easily accounting for Carlton in the season's climax, winning the 1962 Premiership by 32 points. This was a remarkable result for Coleman, who, in just his second season of coaching, claimed
13376-547: The front of Erasmus High and smoked cigarettes." The school was near an art movie house, and he recalls that she was always aware of the films they were showing. She had a crush on 15-year-old US Chess Champion and fellow student Bobby Fischer , whom she found to be "very sexy". During the summer of 1957, she landed her first stage experience as a walk-on at the Playhouse, in Malden Bridge, New York . That small part
13528-487: The full creative control her contract gave her—'I've always had the right to sing what I want' —with 1985's The Broadway Album , which was unexpectedly successful, holding the coveted No. 1 Billboard position for three straight weeks and being certified quadruple platinum. The album featured tunes by Rodgers and Hammerstein , George Gershwin , Jerome Kern , and Stephen Sondheim , who was persuaded to rework some of his songs especially for this recording. The Broadway Album
13680-460: The ground during its history, owing to a contractual requirement between the AFL and the stadium's original owners to stage at least 46 AFL matches per year until 2013, and 40 matches per year thereafter. Geelong and Collingwood both had deals to play around four home matches per year during the 2000s, with the latter playing two home games per year at the ground since 2014. Most other clubs still play one or two home matches there per year to make up
13832-579: The high proportion of gate revenues which were paid back to the stadium meant that clubs earned much lower returns for a game at Docklands than they would have earned from the same attendance at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. At least 20,000 spectators were usually required to break even on a game. Those three clubs all received compensation payments from the AFL to balance the weak deals, and sold occasional home matches to small interstate or international venues for greater financial returns than they could earn at Docklands. The stadium and broader precinct underwent
13984-563: The highest-paid concert performer in history at the time. Barbra Streisand: The Concert went on to be the top-grossing concert of the year and earned five Emmy Awards and the Peabody Award , while the taped broadcast on HBO was the highest-rated concert special in HBO's 30-year history. Following the tour's conclusion, Streisand once again kept a low profile musically, instead focusing her efforts on acting and directing duties as well as
14136-605: The latter appearing on Streisand's 1988 effort, Till I Loved You . At the beginning of the 1990s, Streisand started focusing on her film directorial efforts and became almost inactive in the recording studio. In 1991, a four-disc box set, Just for the Record , was released. A compilation spanning Streisand's entire career to date, it featured over 70 tracks of live performances, greatest hits, rarities, and previously unreleased material. The following year, Streisand's concert fundraising events helped propel President Bill Clinton into
14288-406: The local North Melbourne Advertiser in 1889, and ended up gaining wide use, often as the diminutive "Same Olds". This move away from Essendon, at a time when fans would walk to their local ground, didn't go down too well with many Essendon people; and, as a consequence, a new team and club was formed in 1900, unconnected with the first (although it played in the same colours), that was based at
14440-471: The love theme from A Star Is Born (1976), the first woman to be honored as a composer. With the release of Yentl (1983), Streisand became the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major studio film. The film won an Oscar for Best Original Score and a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Musical . Streisand also received the Golden Globe Award for Best Director , becoming
14592-403: The low gates for the finals meant this was never attempted again, resulting in Essendon having the unique record of winning the only two premierships without a grand final. Prominent contributors to Essendon's 1924 Premiership success included back pocket Clyde Donaldson , follower Norm Beckton , half-back flanker Roy Laing , follower Charlie May , and rover Charlie Hardy . The 1924 season
14744-455: The name of the local borough . While the exact date is unknown, it is generally accepted to have been in 1872. The club's first recorded game took place on 7 June 1873 against a Carlton seconds team. From 1878 until 1896, the club played in the Victorian Football Association (VFA), then joined seven other clubs in October 1896 to form the breakaway Victorian Football League (known as the Australian Football League since 1990). Headquartered at
14896-422: The naming rights transferred to Etihad Airways . The venue became known as Etihad Stadium under a five-year deal, which was later extended to ten years, at a cost estimated at between $ 5–$ 8 million per year. This once again caused problems, as the AFL would not initially recognise the new name due to its deal with rival airline Qantas . The league recognised the new name only after further negotiation between
15048-405: The neighborhood for her voice. She remembers sitting on the stoop in front of their apartment building with the other kids and singing: "I was considered the girl on the block with the good voice." That talent became a way for her to gain attention. She would often practice her singing in the hallway of her apartment building, which gave her voice an echoing quality. She made her singing debut at
15200-512: The normally uptempo " Happy Days Are Here Again ". She performed this in a duet with Judy Garland on The Judy Garland Show . Garland referred to her on the air as one of the last great belters . They also sang " There's No Business Like Show Business ", with Ethel Merman joining them. Beginning with My Name Is Barbra , her early albums were often medley-filled keepsakes of her television specials. Starting in 1969, she began attempting more contemporary material, but like many talented singers of
15352-552: The northern end is the Lockett End, after Tony Lockett ; and the southern end is the Coventry End, after Gordon Coventry . Some clubs informally use alternative names during their home games in place of those to honour their own histories. As of 2024, five AFL teams have deals in place to play home games at Docklands Stadium: All Victorian-based AFL teams, including those not listed here, have played some home games at
15504-424: The nucleus of what would become the formidable Essendon sides of the 1980s. This raw but talented group of youngsters took Essendon to an elimination final in 1979 under Barry Davis but were again thrashed in an Elimination Final, this time at the hands of Fitzroy. Davis resigned at the end of the 1980 season after missing out on a finals appearance. One of the few highlights for Essendon supporters during this time
15656-476: The numbers; for example, Richmond have played one home game per year at the ground since 2011 and Hawthorn have played one home game per year at the ground since 2017. In 2020, to mark 20 years of AFL football at the ground, the AFL named the 20 biggest moments and stories involving games played at the stadium in a video. The top 5 were as follows: The venue's major summer tenant is Big Bash League side Melbourne Renegades , which has played its home games at
15808-407: The one ground, given that McCracken's Paddock was a parcel of land that sat within the larger Glass's Paddock, which in turn was situated in an area widely known at the time as Flemington Hill. In 1882, the club moved home games to the East Melbourne Cricket Ground (since demolished) after an application to play on the Essendon Cricket Ground (later known as Windy Hill) was voted down by Lord Mayor of
15960-526: The other nicknames "Sash Wearers" and "Essendonians" that had been variously used from time to time were also abandoned. The team became universally known as "the Dons" (from Essen DON ); it was not until much later, during the War years of the early 1940s, that they became known as "The Bombers " due to Windy Hill's proximity to the Essendon Aerodrome . In the 1922 season , playing in Essendon for
16112-403: The ranks, the side plummeted to an unexpected and humiliating 28-point loss to VFA premiers Footscray in a special charity match played a week later in front of 46,100 people, in aid of Dame Nellie Melba's Limbless Soldiers' Appeal Fund , purportedly (but not officially) for the championship of Victoria. The club's fortunes dipped alarmingly—and persistently. Indeed, after finishing third in
16264-885: The record shop] and ask for the Barbra Streisand album. It's common sense". It reached the top 10 on the Billboard chart and won three Grammy Awards . The album made her the best-selling female vocalist in the country. That summer she also released The Second Barbra Streisand Album , which established her as the "most exciting new personality since Elvis Presley ." She ended that breakthrough year of 1963 by performing one-night concerts in Indianapolis, San Jose, Chicago, Sacramento, and Los Angeles. Streisand returned to Broadway in 1964 with an acclaimed performance as entertainer Fanny Brice in Funny Girl at
16416-538: The recording studio and released Back to Broadway in June 1993. The album was not as universally lauded as its predecessor, but it did debut at No. 1 on the pop charts (a rare feat for an artist of Streisand's age, especially given that it relegated Janet Jackson 's Janet to the No. 2 spot). One of the album's highlights was a medley of " I Have A Love" / "One Hand, One Heart ", a duet with Johnny Mathis , who Streisand said
16568-426: The same high level of performance throughout the season, kicking precisely 100 goals for the year to become the first player to kick 100 goals in a season since Richmond's Jack Titus in 1940 . The Coleman factor was just what Essendon needed to enable them to take that vital final step to premiership glory, but even so it was not until the business end of the season that this became clear. Essendon struggled to make
16720-457: The season even began, demanding higher payments. Essendon did make the finals in 1972 and 1973 under the autocratic direction of Des Tuddenham (Collingwood), but they were beaten badly in successive elimination finals by St. Kilda and did not taste finals action again until the very end of the decade. The 1970s' Essendon sides were involved in many rough and tough encounters under Tuddenham, who himself came to loggerheads with Ron Barassi at
16872-668: The side into the finals in 1940 for the first time since 1926, when the side finished 3rd. Melbourne, which defeated Essendon by just 5 points in the preliminary final, later went on to trounce Richmond by 39 points in the grand final. The Essendon Football Club adopted the nickname The Bombers in April 1940. 1941 brought Essendon's first grand final appearance since 1923, but the side again lowered its colours to Melbourne. While Australia had entered World War II – located primarily in Europe and Africa – in 1939,
17024-447: The side, which was often in contention for the wooden spoon . Essendon did manage to make the 1968 VFL Grand Final , but it lost to Carlton by just three points and did not make it back to the big stage for a 15 years. During the period from 1968 until 1980, five different coaches were tried, with none lasting longer than four years. Off the field, the club went through troubled times as well. In 1970, five players went on strike before
17176-514: The spotlight and into office. Streisand later introduced Clinton at his inauguration in 1993. Streisand's music career, however, was largely on hold. A 1992 appearance at an APLA benefit, as well as the aforementioned inaugural performance, hinted that Streisand was becoming more receptive to the idea of live performances. A tour was suggested, though Streisand would not immediately commit to it, citing her well-known stage fright as well as security concerns. During this time, Streisand finally returned to
17328-512: The stadium by Baulderstone began in October 1997 under the working name "Victoria Stadium", and was completed ahead of the 2000 AFL season. The stadium was originally developed by the Docklands Stadium Consortium and thereafter controlled by the Seven Network . The remaining leasehold interest in the stadium was sold to James Fielding Funds Management in June 2006 for A$ 330 million. The stadium, like Waverley Park,
17480-419: The stadium have been in use. The venue was damaged by a thunderstorm in March 2010 during the 2010 Victorian storms . The external roof at Gate 2 caved in, causing damage and flooding inside the entertainment area. That evening's pre-season match between St Kilda and Fremantle was delayed due to WorkSafe inspections, but it still went ahead before a small crowd of 5,000. In 2015, LED electronic advertising
17632-599: The stadium hosts special events and concerts. Adele holds the record for the largest concert attendance at the stadium, on the Adele Live 2017 tour. Ed Sheeran holds the record for the largest concert series attendance at the stadium, on the Divide World Tour . In November 2023, the stadium was the first in Australia to hold a K-pop concert and the first in Australia to be headlined by a female group, when Twice held their Ready to Be World Tour concert at
17784-631: The stadium opened as Colonial Stadium . The same year, Commonwealth Bank took over the Colonial State Bank and began to discontinue the brand. Commonwealth then sold the balance of the naming rights contract to Telstra for about $ 50 million, and the stadium's name was changed to Telstra Dome in October 2002. During this time it was colloquially referred to as "The Dome" – a colloquialism used actively by clubs which were sponsored by rival telecommunications companies (such as Essendon with 3 and Carlton with Optus ). In March 2009,
17936-520: The stadium. RMIT University uses the stadium as the site for its graduation ceremonies annually. Last updated 28 August 2023. The following table summarises the ODI centuries scored at Docklands. Docklands Stadium is serviced primarily by trains at Southern Cross Station , which is located on the City Loop and is serviced by most major metropolitan and country train and coach lines. The stadium
18088-475: The stadium. The stadium hosted the 2024 A-Leagues All Stars Games on 24 May 2024, as part of Global Football Week Melbourne . In the 2001 National Rugby League season, the stadium was the permanent home ground for the Melbourne Storm , but this deal lasted only one year. The club occasionally hosted high-drawing home games and finals at Docklands after that, including their first three home games of
18240-476: The then highest score in VFL history. In 1988, Essendon made a rebound to sixth place with twelve wins, including a 140-point thrashing of Brisbane where they had a record sixteen individual goalkickers. In 1989, they rebounded further to second on the ladder with only five losses and thrashed Geelong in the Qualifying Final. However, after a fiery encounter with Hawthorn ended in a convincing defeat,
18392-462: The third quarter to set up victory by 11 points. Essendon slumped to 8th in 1952 , but Coleman was in blistering form, managing 103 goals for the year. Hugh Buggy noted in The Argus : "It was the wettest season for twenty-two years and Coleman showed that since the war he was without peer in the art of goal kicking." Two seasons later, Coleman's career was ended after he dislocated a knee during
18544-430: The time she's thirty she will have rewritten the record books." Her name is Barbra Streisand. She is 20 years old, she has a three-octave promiscuity of range, she packs more personal dynamic power than anybody I can recall since Libby Holman or Helen Morgan . She can sing as loud as Ethel Merman and as persuasively as Lena or Ella , or as brassy as a Sophie Tucker ... and only Barbra Streisand can turn " Cry Me
18696-543: The top four clubs after the home-and-away season played a round-robin to determine the premiers. Essendon, having previously defeated both Fitzroy (by 40 points) and South Melbourne (by 33 points), clinched the premiership by means of a 20-point loss to Richmond. With the Tigers having already lost a match to Fitzroy by a substantial margin, the Dons were declared premiers by virtue of their superior percentage, meaning that Essendon again managed to win successive premierships. But
18848-595: The two parties. In September 2018, the stadium was renamed Marvel Stadium after the stadium operators negotiated an eight-year deal with the Walt Disney Company , the parent company of Marvel Entertainment , to change the naming rights and install a Marvel retail store at the venue. The ends of the ground, where the AFL goal posts are located, are named after the two leading goalkickers in VFL/AFL history:
19000-566: The ultimate margin of 17 points suggested. In the grand final, Essendon were pitted against Carlton and in a match that was a total travesty as a contest they overwhelmed the Blues to the tune of 73 points, 18.17 (125) to 6.16 (52). Best for the Dons included pacy aboriginal half-back flanker Norm McDonald , ruckman Bob McLure , and rovers Bill Hutchinson and Ron McEwin . John Coleman also did well, registering six goals. A year later, in 1950 , Essendon were—if anything—even more dominant, defeating
19152-505: The ultimate prize in Australian football. As so often is the case after a flag, the following two years were below standard. A further premiership in 1965 (won from 4th position on the ladder) was also unexpected due to periods of poor form during the 1965 season . The Bombers were a different club when the finals came around, but some of the credit for the improvement was given to the influence of Brian Sampson and Ted Fordham during
19304-470: The venue's first concert. The stadium's third football game, between Western Bulldogs and Brisbane Lions on 19 March, was the first to be played under the roof. On 16 August 2000, the world's first indoor One Day International was held at the venue between Australia and South Africa . The first game played in the rectangular configuration was a Melbourne Storm game in July 2001. The first soccer match played
19456-489: The venue, in 2025 the AFL was to win ownership of the stadium for a nominal $ 30 fee; but the AFL Commission opted to purchase exclusive ownership of the stadium earlier than this, in October 2016, for approximately $ 200 million. This purchase left the stadium's tenant AFL clubs millions of dollars better off, as they and the AFL arranged more favourable tenancy agreements; although clubs continue to make more money at
19608-461: The venue. With a capacity for over 53,000 spectators for sports, it is the second-largest stadium in Melbourne after the Melbourne Cricket Ground . It has hosted a number of other sporting events—including domestic Twenty20 cricket matches, Melbourne Victory soccer home matches, rugby league and rugby union matches, as well as special events and concerts . The precinct is headquarters for
19760-556: The world." Later in 1961, before she was cast in Another Evening With Harry Stoones , Streisand became a semi-regular on PM East/PM West , a talk/variety series hosted by Mike Wallace and Joyce Davidson . Some of Streisand's PM East segments survive as audio recordings, and still photos survive, but moving images do not. In early 1962, she went into the Columbia Records studio for
19912-665: The young singer. Liberace invited her to Las Vegas to perform as his opening act at the Riviera Hotel. He is credited with introducing Streisand to audiences on the West Coast. The following September, during her ongoing shows at Harrah's Hotel in Lake Tahoe, she and Elliott Gould took time off to get married in Carson City, Nevada . With her career and popularity rising so quickly, she saw her marriage to Gould as
20064-461: Was a fair (or even lenient) sentence, he took his case to the supreme court, gathering even more unwanted publicity for the club. Despite this, the club had recruited many talented young players in the late 1970s who emerged as club greats. Three of those young players were Simon Madden , Tim Watson and Paul Van Der Haar . Terry Daniher and his brother Neale came via a trade with South Melbourne , and Roger Merrett joined soon afterwards to form
20216-491: Was able to leverage its ownership of the stadium in obtaining a $ 500–600 million line of credit to cover cash flow shortages when the 2020 AFL season was suspended. The stadium has never operated under the name 'Docklands Stadium', having been covered by naming rights deals throughout its entire operating history. When it opened, the Colonial State Bank paid $ 32.5 million for 10 years of naming rights, and
20368-468: Was added around the perimeter of the ground on level 1 and 2, as well as a strip synthetic turf around the edge of the fence, outside the boundary line. The synthetic strip was narrowed after Brisbane Lions player Michael Close suffered a season ending ACL injury on the uneven surface during a game in 2015. The stadium became unpopular with many of its tenant clubs, especially St Kilda , North Melbourne and Western Bulldogs , as high operating costs and
20520-404: Was beyond brilliant – so amazing. — Elliott Gould , about their first play together in 1961 In December 1962, Streisand made the first of a number of appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show . She was later a cohost on The Mike Douglas Show , and also made an impact on a number of Bob Hope specials. Performing with her on The Ed Sullivan Show was Liberace , who became an instant fan of
20672-436: Was built primarily for Australian rules football , unlike most grounds of a similar size in Australia which were originally designed for cricket then later developed for football. It was the first Australian rules football stadium built with a retractable roof, which throughout its history has usually been closed for night matches and for wet weather day matches; the roof closure policy for dry weather day matches has varied. It
20824-495: Was completed in 2000 at a cost of A$ 460 million ($ 930 million in 2023 terms). The stadium features a retractable roof and the ground level seating can be converted from oval to rectangular configuration. The stadium is primarily used for Australian rules football and was originally built as a replacement for Waverley Park . Offices at the precinct serve as the headquarters of the Australian Football League (AFL) which, since October 2016, has had exclusive ownership of
20976-480: Was finished only weeks before the first match, and some scheduled pre-season matches were relocated as a result. The first match to be played at the ground was between Essendon and Port Adelaide , before a crowd of 43,012, on 9 March 2000. Essendon won the match by 94 points, and Michael Long kicked the first goal at the ground. The game was to have been played under the closed roof, but due to technical issues it remained open. Six days later, Barbra Streisand staged
21128-826: Was followed by a role as the kid sister in Picnic and as a vamp in Desk Set . In her second year, she took a night job at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village , helping backstage. When she was a senior, she rehearsed for a small part in Driftwood , a play staged in a midtown attic space. She graduated from Erasmus Hall in January 1959 at age 16, and despite her mother's pleas that she stay out of show business, she set out trying to get roles on
21280-435: Was her main objective. That desire was made stronger when she saw her first Broadway play, The Diary of Anne Frank , when she was 14. The star in the play was Susan Strasberg , whose acting she wanted to emulate. Streisand began spending her spare time in the library, studying the biographies of various stage actresses such as Eleanora Duse and Sarah Bernhardt . In addition, she began reading novels and plays and studying
21432-515: Was in round 5 2001 of the National Soccer League between South Melbourne FC and Melbourne Knights FC . From the beginning, the stadium's playing surface was criticised for its slipperiness, hardness and lack of grass coverage, and the increased risk of injury that this causes to players. Maintaining surface quality remains one of the stadium's biggest challenges. The stadium's orientation and highly built-up grandstands mean that
21584-505: Was looking for a new home. It was offered grounds at the current Royal Melbourne Showgrounds , Ascot Vale ; at Victoria Park , Melbourne; at Arden St, North Melbourne ; and the Essendon Cricket Ground. The Essendon City Council offered the (VFL) team the Essendon Cricket Ground, announcing that it would be prepared to spend over £12,000 ($ 1,009,066 in 2021 terms, according to the Retail Price Index ) on improvements, including
21736-517: Was met with acclaim, including a Grammy nomination for album of the year, and handed Streisand her eighth Grammy as Best Female Vocalist. After releasing the live album One Voice in 1986, Streisand was set to release another album of Broadway songs in 1988. She recorded several cuts for the album under the direction of Rupert Holmes , including " On My Own " (from Les Misérables ), a medley of "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?", and "Heather on
21888-477: Was not without controversy, however, with rumours of numerous players accepting bribes. Regardless of the accuracy of these allegations, the club's image was tarnished, and the side experienced its lowest period during the decade that followed, with poor results on the field and decreased support off it. There was worse to follow, with various Essendon players publicly blaming each other for a poor performance against Richmond , and then, with dissension still rife in
22040-408: Was one of Essendon's most famous sides, dubbed the "Mosquito Fleet" due to the number of small, very fast players in the side. Six players were 5'6" (167 cm) or smaller. In the 1924 season , for the first time since their inaugural premiership in 1897, there was no ultimate match to decide the league's champion team – either "Challenge Final" or "Grand Final" – to determine the premiers; instead,
22192-491: Was only 22 was seen as providing considerable cause for optimism. However, it was to take another three years, and a change of coach, before the team's obvious potential was translated into tangible success. John Coleman started his coaching career at Essendon in 1961 , thus ending the Dick Reynolds era at the club. In the same year, Essendon finished the season mid-table, and supporters were not expecting too much for
22344-405: Was recorded and made into an album. Streisand's first television appearance was on The Tonight Show , then credited to its regular host, Jack Paar . She was seen during an April 1961 episode on which Orson Bean substituted for Paar. She sang Harold Arlen 's " A Sleepin' Bee ". During her appearance, Phyllis Diller , also a guest on the show, called her "one of the great singing talents in
22496-427: Was the first stadium in Australia to have movable seating . All four level-one tiers of the stadium can be moved up to 18 metres forward into a rectangular configuration. Despite this being a key feature of the stadium design, it has rarely been used, due to damage to turf, time to deploy the seats, and a reduced capacity, since the corner bays of the stadium become unavailable in rectangular configuration. Construction
22648-485: Was the only thing I really cared about. I still received lots of pressure from the label to include some pop hits on my first album, but I held out for the songs that really meant something to me. She took advantage of this several times during her career. Columbia wanted to call her first album, in early 1963, Sweet and Saucy Streisand ; Streisand used her control to insist that it was called The Barbra Streisand Album , saying "if you saw me on TV, you could just go [to
22800-560: Was the team's first captain. The club played its first recorded match against the Carlton Second Twenty (the reserves ) on 7 June 1873, with Essendon winning by one goal. Essendon played 13 matches in its first season, winning seven, with four draws and losing two. The club was one of the inaugural junior members of the Victorian Football Association (VFA) in 1877, and it began competing as
22952-527: Was too ugly to be a star and was advised to get a nose job —she did not. Streisand was next asked to audition at the Bon Soir nightclub, after which she was signed up at $ 125 a week. It became her first professional engagement in September 1960, where she was the opening act for comedian Phyllis Diller . She recalls it was the first time she had been in that kind of upscale environment: "I'd never been in
23104-479: Was when Graham Moss won the 1976 Brownlow Medal ; he was the only Bomber to do so in a 40-year span from 1953 to 1993. Even that was bittersweet, as he quit VFL football to move back to his native Western Australia, where Moss finished out his career as a player and coach at Claremont Football Club . In many ways, Moss's career reflects Essendon's mixed fortunes during the decade. Former Richmond player Kevin Sheedy started as head coach in 1981. Essendon reached
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