FUNNY GIRL on Broadway - Reviews & News Thread

Easier this way.

Thanks, Brody! I forget you can embed actual videos into the threads!

Impeach2017 said: "She certainly bears no physical similarity to Brice. "


Good thing it’s not a documentary.

She seems charming and talented...and totally wrong for the part. For one thing, apart from her size, she's conventionally pretty. And the big point of Funny Girl is the triumph of a very unconventionally attractive woman (it was callously argued early in the show's history that it was a feel-good story for ugly people--Pauline Kael references this interpretation to refute it in her review of the film version). A very pretty girl who happens to be a little heavy is not doing justice to the story of Fanny Brice. And documentary or no, Funny Girl does mean to tell a version of Brice's story.

Effie in Dreamgirls doesn't have to resemble Florance Ballard. But Fanny Brice in Funny Girl does have to have physical characteristics in common with Fanny Brice.

I'm in the camp who thinks Fanny Brice was "gorgeous" when she wasn't mugging. In this clip, she is (I believe) in her late 30's.

So? Is it against your law to start a new thread?

BWAY Baby2 said: "So? Is it against your law to start a new thread?"

www.funnygirlonbroadway.com

No guarantee it will lose to MUSIC MAN...if people feel most of the leads are totally miscast once they actually see it, that could ding it. There's also COMPANY.

That art is pretty awful and I hope it's a placeholder for now. It feels like they are subconsciously trying to remind people of HELLO, DOLLY.