Shows · Funny Face
Funny Face
Opened 1927
244 performances
Musical, Early
Funny Face is a 1927 musical composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and book by Fred Thompson and Paul Gerard Smith. When it opened on Broadway on November 22, 1927, as the first show performed in the newly built Alvin Theatre, it starred Fred Astaire and his sister Adele Astaire.
- Music
- George Gershwin
- Lyrics
- Ira Gershwin
- Book
- Paul Gerard Smith & Fred Thompson
Productions2 productions: 1 on Broadway, 1 in the West End
1927
244 performances
1928
Shaftesbury TheatreLondon
Songs7 songs
Funny Face, High Hat, He Loves and She Loves, ’S Wonderful, Let’s Kiss and Make Up, My One and Only, The Babbitt and the Bromide
Recordings 1 recording
George and Ira had worked on Broadway’s 1927 Funny Face.
The Melody Lingers On the Great Songwriters and Their Movie Hemming Roy New York, p. 77Something wrong here? Correct a field or report the problem. Every change is recorded in public under the contributor licence.