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“Funny Girl” first premiered on Broadway in 1964 and the movie version, with Barbra Streisand starring as Fanny Brice, followed in 1968.
“Funny Girl” the show loosely based on the life of Fanny Brice and her climb to stardom from Henry Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan to the Vaudeville ...
Theater review: 'Funny Girl' revival a star-driven, imperfect musical at Proctors A superb Fanny Brice softens, but can't erase, the story's baked-in flaws ...
The nostalgic rendition of the musical stars an excellent Hannah Shankman as Fanny Brice, a young woman who has dreams of stardom. Theater critic Jacquinn Sinclair reviews the Broadway in Boston show.
Hannah Shankman plays Fanny Brice in the touring production of the revival of the blockbuster 1964 Broadway musical “Funny Girl,” which runs now through Feb. 16 at the Citizens Opera House.
Playing the celebrated Jewish vaudeville comedian and singer Fanny Brice, Streisand went on to win an Oscar for best actress for the 1968 film adaptation and launch her legendary six-decade career.
Streisand also starred in the 1968 film adaptation. “Funny Girl” received its only Broadway revival in 2022, and this tour, now at Kravis Center, is of that revival.
National tour of the first Broadway revival of ‘Funny Girl’ brings the story of comedian, actress and singer Fanny Brice to Florida stops ...
Shankman was a big Barbra Streisand fan from a young age. And, she admitted, Omar Sharif was her first crush. He played Streisand’s love interest in the 1968 film. “Funny Girl” was one of her all-time ...
Hannah Shankman relishes role of Fanny Brice in ‘Funny Girl’ “It’s such an honor to play such a beautifully nuanced, flushed out, iconic Jewish woman,” Shankman said.
"Funny Girl," once a hit film and Broadway musical, is now touring the United States for the first time ever. Next week Funny Girl's cast will arrive at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts ...
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