Nick asks Ziegfeld to invest in a gambling casino, but although Ziegfeld passes, Fanny insists on investing. Fanny has become a major star with the Ziegfeld Follies ("Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat"). Brice that she should find a man to marry, now that her daughter is supporting her ("Find Yourself a Man"). The two marry and move to a mansion on Long Island ("Sadie, Sadie"). Fanny is determined to marry Nick, regardless of his gambling past (" Don't Rain on My Parade"). Later they meet in Baltimore and have a private dinner at a swanky restaurant and declare their feelings ("You Are Woman, I Am Man"). Fanny is clearly falling in love with Nick, while acknowledging their complex vulnerabilities (" People"). She meets the sophisticated and handsome Nicky Arnstein, who accompanies Fanny to her mother's opening night party on "Henry Street". Fanny performs a supposedly romantic number in the Follies, but she turns it into a classic comic routine, ending the number as a pregnant bride ("His Love Makes Me Beautiful"), causing an uproar.
Brice lament that once she's on Broadway she'll forget about them ("Who Taught Her Everything?"). Once Fanny's career takes off, Eddie and Mrs. But Fanny perseveres (" I'm the Greatest Star") and is helped and encouraged by Eddie Ryan, a dancer she meets in the vaudeville shows.
Strakosh try to dissuade her from show business because Fanny is not the typical beauty ("If a Girl Isn't Pretty"). Ziegfeld Follies star Fanny Brice, awaiting the return of her husband Nicky Arnstein from prison, reflects on their life together, and their story is told as a flashback.įanny is a stage-struck teen who gets her first job in vaudeville.
The musical is set in and around New York City just prior to and following World War I. Lea Michele was subsequently cast in September 2022, releasing a new Broadway cast recording two months later. The original cast recording of Funny Girl was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2004.Ī Broadway revival, with a revised book by Harvey Fierstein, opened April 24, 2022, starring Beanie Feldstein. The production received eight nominations at the 18th Tony Awards. The semi- biographical plot is based on the life and career of comedian and Broadway star Fanny Brice, featuring her stormy relationship with entrepreneur and gambler Nicky Arnstein.īarbra Streisand starred in the original Broadway musical, produced by Brice's son-in-law Ray Stark. Funny Girl is a musical with score by Jule Styne, lyrics by Bob Merrill, and book by Isobel Lennart, that first opened on Broadway in 1964.
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