Funny Girl

Productions3 on Broadway

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Recordings 18 albums held

Licensing 2 entries

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57 passages naming Funny Girl, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.

Brice’s life provided the material for the Broadway musical Funny Girl (3/26/64), which was later transferred to the screen. The sequel, Funny Lady, also became a hit movie. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p102

Styne’s next production was his biggest hit. Funny Girl (3/26/64; 1,348 performances), starring Barbra Streisand, opened at the Winter Garden Theatre. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p539

Bob Merrill, who provided Styne with such strong lyrics for Funny Girl and not such strong ones for Prettybelle, was unable to repeat his popular success with Sugar (4/9/72; 505 performances), a musical adaptation of the Billy Wilder movie Some Like It Hot. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p540

His next role, as Nick Arnstein in a third Styne musical, Funny Girl, became his swan song to the musical stage. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p38

The role of Rosie was originally offered tc but she turned it down. She also turned down the role of Fanny Brice in Funny Girl and Flora in The Jazz Singer. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p51

unny Gurl Was A TROUBLED production from the beginning, so it’s interesting that many consider it one of the best Broadway musicals. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p127