HENDERSONVILLE — “Barbra and Frank: The Christmas Concert That Never Was” was a stellar show featuring two long-time singers-impressionists — and it was greeted with a sustained standing ovation at its conclusion Dec. 12 at Flat Rock Playhouse’s downtown Hendersonville stage.

Turning in superb performances were — direct from Las Vegas — Sharon Owens, as Barbra Streisand; and Sebastian Anzaldo, as the late Frank Sinatra. They had their intonations, mannerisms and dress down to a “T.” 

Another strong point of the show was that those who attended were left knowing much more than when they arrived, as the performance featured many informative details about the lives of each of these performers, who were billed — at least in the show — as “the voices of the century,” referrring to the 20th century.

The show featured Christmas songs on which the performers put the Streisand and Sinatra spin, as well as their classic songs. It also was noted that Sinatra’s 100th birthday would have been Dec. 12. The show ended Dec. 20.

As was noted at the beginning of the show, Streisand and Sinatra never performed together in a concert, although they taped a duet in separate recording sessions. “Barbra and Frank” depicts what it might have been like to have them teamed up for a Christmas concert.

The biggest problem with the show was its use of recorded music, rather than a small orchestra, although the economics of putting on the production probably make that alternative financially unfeasible. On the bright side, Hendersonville’s George Wilkins provided “live” piano accompaniment — as well as an appropriate backdrop and many humorous asides during the show — to the two singers.

The show started with a 1993 version “I’ve Got a Crush on You,” the one song that Streisand and Sinatra actually had teamed up on in real life.

Following “Crush,” some of the memorable first-set songs during the Dec. 10 performance were “Luck Be a Lady,” “Evergreen,” “Woman in Love,” “Enough Is Enough,” “Strangers in the Night,” “One for My Baby,” “That’s Life,” “A Quarter to Three,” “Hello, Dolly,” “People” and Sinatra’s signature song, “My Way.”

An interesting medley melded Sinatra’s “It Was a Very Good Year” and Streisand’s “The Way We Were.”

Owens and Anzaldo also sang rousing versions of Sinatra’s “flying” songs, including “Come Fly With Me” and “Fly Me to the Moon.”

Unfortunately, Anzaldo, who was recovering from a cold, sounded a bit hoarse at times, but not to the point that it detracted from his renditions of Sinatra’s classics.

The second set featured mostly Christmas songs, featuring Streisand’s and Sinatra’s spins, including “It’s the Most Wonderful Time,” “Let It Snow,” “Santa, Baby,” “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” and “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” 

Another highlight of the show were the glamorous outfits worn by Owens that so were the style of Streisand in her prime. One was black, another white and the last one, red.

Also making the show sparkle were the constant back-and-forth comic rejoinders between the two performers that one could well imagine would have occurred if the two ever had actually taken the stage together for a show.

Later in show, Owens asked the audience if anyone had been married for 30, 40, 50 and 60 years. To her surprise, three people — a couple and a woman attending without her husband — said they had been married for 61 years.

In honor of the longevity of their marriages, Owens sang Streisand’s “Evergreen.”

She also got the crowd moving during her performance of Streisand’s “Enough Is Enough,” which Owens described as a disco-style song. She pointed out that several grey-haired concert-goers were doing the “windshield wiper” move — gyrating with their bodies to the left and right while remaining seated in celebration of disco music.

In addition, Owens spoke, at length and in the first-person, about Streisand’s exhaustive efforts on the 1983 romantic musical drama “Yentl.” Streisand directed, co-wrote, co-produced, and starred in the film, which centers on a young girl who defies tradition by discussing and debating Jewish law and theology with her rabbi father.