Barbra Streisand to guest on “The Tonight Show” next week – 1st late night appearance in 50-plus years

Barbra Streisand has a new album called Partners out next week and is pulling out all the stops to promote it.

The great star will guest on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on September 15 – her first late night appearance in more than 50 years.

Streisand rarely does talk shows but in recent years has guested on the daytime chatfests The Oprah Winfrey Show as well as The Katie Couric Show. She also made a memorable appearance on The Rosie O’Donnell Show in the 1990s.

But Streisand has avoided has shunned the late-night TV talk show game since appearing with Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show in March 1963 to promote her debut album.

She will be Fallon’s only guest on the night she appears.