Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. That is certainly true for the performer’s journey with the show FUNNY GIRL ...

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — The national tour of the musical “Funny Girl” opens at Proctors in Schenectady on Tuesday. It’s based on the life of comedienne Fanny Brice, one of the most important figures in ...

I’ve read one review of the touring show of “Funny Girl” stating Hannah Shankman didn’t have the “star power” needed to play Fanny Brice. I’m not sure who that critic saw, because Shankman had the ...

“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 stage and ultimately as one of the ...

With a blend of audacious humor, soaring ambition and passionate romance, the character of Fanny Brice demands a multi-faceted performance by the leading lady of "Funny Girl." "She gets to be deeply ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The story followed the career of Fanny Brice as she blossomed into a star ...

It's not quite "life imitates art," but it's a neighbor to that concept. Sort of like the actors who portray the "Funny Girl" and her husband. Hannah Shankman, who brings to life Fanny Brice in the ...

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — Broadway, radio and film entertainer and comedian Fanny Brice (1891-1951) was the stuff of legend — a star in producer Florenz Ziegfeld’s Follies who went on to become Broadway's ...

"Hello, gorgeous." "Funny Girl" is the first of two films that track the life of vaudeville star, Ziegfeld Girl, and radio icon Fanny Brice (Barbra Streisand) from a girl determined to break out of ...