#Funny girl musical

[elerriellee]

Hello, gorgeous.

Ramin Karimloo and Lea Michele in Funny Girl

[tobbogan-13]

everyone’s asking if she’ll be able to read the broadway contract 😭

[mynewfavoriteday]

People, Katerina McCrimmon

Funny Girl National Tour

[daily-spooky]

[thephantomofanastasia]

Julie Benko's Funny Girl Tracks

Julie Benko recorded a few tracks for the Funny Girl Revival album that were never released. But I guess someone released them on SoundCloud. She sounds amazing!!!

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Funny Girl at the Ahmanson Theatre, unsorted comments below, including spoilers:

At this performance, Hannah Shankman was on for Fanny Brice.

My knowledge of Funny Girl has largely come from the news and the discourse (sigh) about the most recent revival, with a little bit from Lea Michele as Rachel Berry performing "Don't Rain On My Parade" on Glee. I was aware that this was a star-making vehicle for Barbra Streisand and that its general strengths were in the character of Fanny Brice and its score, but not its book.

Watching "Don't Rain On My Parade" is certainly more disquieting in context. My two primary reactions were 1) you're ditching a successful (but relatively new/not well-established) career for this guy? and 2) how is this going to fall apart later?

During "Temporary Arrangement" I was wondering if the song was suggesting that the money itself was the temporary arrangement (i.e. a loan), or was it the relationship? Based on their scene in Monte Carlo, it seemed like the marriage was something Nick just kind of went along with, as opposed to being part of a mutual agreement (let alone an enthusiastic one). Later on he seems to realize that he does care strongly for her, while in the meantime the audience is realizing that these two are not good for each other.

According to inflation calculator at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis website, $68,000 in 1920 (a couple of years after the real Fanny Brice and Nick Arnstein got married) is equivalent to over $1 million now. That is a lot of money to be casually writing a check for.

Does Fanny ever get over her neediness for this dude? At the end of Act 1 she is ready to drop her career for him, and at the end of Act 2 it's the same thing. It's a bit weird that she doesn't seem to have changed much through the second act; it's only once he tells her they should split up that she accepts it. I suppose the point of the ending is that she is resilient in a "show must go on" kind of way, but oddly unsatisfying because I didn't get the impression that she learned anything from the experience. Nick seems to go on the emotional journey through Act 2, and Fanny maybe (?) has a journey in the last five minutes or so.

I am a little puzzled by Ziegfeld Follies-style entertainment. Just not my thing.

Melissa Manchester was very good as Mrs. Brice; I thought her comic timing was solid.

The audience was appreciative overall and was responsive to the occasions that invited crowd response. Even so, the standing ovation didn't quite fill the crowd until Hannah Shankman took her bow as Fanny.

This is the first program I've seen at the Ahmanson since last summer (Into The Woods) in which the actors' pronouns were not included. I assume that is at the discretion of the production, but I guess I'll see when the next show comes around (which is A Strange Loop).

Finally, a fun little mistake in the digital program – the dancers who played Juliet in Matthew Bourne's Romeo and Juliet apparently also moonlight as Fanny Brice alternates. What talent!

[ministarfruit]

day 24: plagued by the horrors ♡

(femslashfeb prompt list)

[witches-unruly-heart]

Funny Girl (from @helplessromantic29 )

I don't really know this show 👀😅🫣 Obviously I know of it, and I've heard a song or two (and heard of the drama surrounding someone coming in and replacing the perfect Fanny Brice, but I've never sat down to listen to it 😅

Favorite song Don't Rain On My Parade (Only song I know -- preferably sung by Barbara or Beanie -- I'm mad they waited until they cast the other one to record the cast recording -- give me Beanie singing Don't Rain On My Parade ANY DAY!)

Favorite character I guess Fanny Brice 😅 (again, played by Barbara or Beanie -- I guess I should watch the movie 😅🫣)

Favorite pairing 👀🫣

Favorite costume The red and cold dress, and the golden one with a tiara

Favorite actor/actress in it Beanie and Ramin

Least favorite character 👀🫣

Least favorite song Dunno? 👀🫣

Least favorite actor/actress in it Lea Michele

If I've seen it live or not Nope, and now I won't

Dream role (if I could actually sing) I guess Fanny, but I don't think I would've auditioned for it, unless I got to play opposite Ramin

A headcanon none I can think of 😅🫣

Dream casting Anyone but Lea Michele

Want to get my thoughts on a musical? Send it my way ❤️

[heliomanteia]

Pretty privilege is real and Apollo being included in God Games while not really having any particular intense feelings against Odysseus is the proof of that.

[lylahammar]

Zorella, the centaur pop queen ✨

Thank you to everyone who helped me by voting on her final design in the poll from last week! I'm so so so happy with how she turned out 🥰

[angsty-art-ist]

are we gonna have a problem?

[gingerhoof]

I’m so angry.

I absolutely despise one recording of “Don’t rain on my parade” performed by Barbara Streisand

And as strongly adore another recording of this song with the same singer

But I have no way to find which theater or what year produced the good one(((

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

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[dumplingprincessextraordinaire]

This be my vibe

[sbrown82]

The Ronettes kicking each other’s ass while on tour with the Beatles (1966).