After getting snubbed by the Academy for a Best Director nomination for Yentl in 1984, Streisand, feeling vulnerable, decided not to list herself as the director of Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album when it was released in 1986...although she did in fact direct the HBO special.
Streisand worked together with her friends, director William Friedkin, and cinematographer Andrzej Bartkowiak to realize her concept of the music video for her song "Somewhere" - which is included in the special. Streisand wanted an otherworldly feel to both the music and the visuals, which was beautifully captured by Friedkin, Bartkowiak, and David Foster's musical arrangement.
Streisand asked her friends Sydney Pollack and David Geffen to play the parts of record executives. They tell her that they don't believe an album of Broadway songs is commercial - and certainly could never become a hit. Streisand's record company was pleasantly surprised when the album did become #1 and a best-seller...and even won a Grammy. If you watch to the end of the credits, you'll hear Pollack's character saying: "Well, guess we were wrong." And Geffen's character responds, "What do you mean, 'we'? had to beg her to make this album!".