Comedienne, chanteuse, and star of the "Ziegfeld Follies," Fanny Brice. I breathed and ate and drank and lived theater — in my neighborhood were all the nationalities of all of Europe.

A superb leading performance softens, but can't erase, the story's baked-in flaws in this semi-autobiographical musical about vaudeville star Fanny Brice.

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 ...

The musical "Funny Girl" opens Tuesday at the Saenger Theatre in New Orleans with Hannah Shankman as Fanny Brice and Stephen Mark Lukas as Nicky Arnstein.

The Broadway tour of “Funny Girl” at the Citizens Bank Opera House, makes it abundantly clear what Fanny Brice (Hannah Shankman) is getting herself into. Within the first 15 ...

You’ll find it in “Funny Girl,” now at Citizens Opera House, starring Hannah Shankman as the brassy, unlucky-in-love but indomitable vaudeville-era comedian-singer Fanny Brice.

Playing the celebrated Jewish vaudeville comedian and singer Fanny Brice, Streisand went on to win an Oscar for best actress for the 1968 film adaptation and launch her legendary six-decade career.

“Funny Girl” is a fun, splashy show, a look back at a bygone era in entertainment and Fanny Brice, a performer long-forgotten, save for the stage and film adaptation of her life.

Streisand plays turn-of-the-century comedian and singer Fanny Brice, a real-life Ziegfield Folly, and Omar Sharif plays her husband and gambler, Nick Arenson. And Sharif’s dashing good looks don’t go ...

Katerina McCrimmon as burlesque performer Fanny Brice is romanced by Stephen Mark Lukas' gambler and con man Nick Arnstein in the national touring production of "Funny Girl." (Matthew Murphy ...

Katerina McCrimmon stars as Fanny Brice in the national tour of "Funny Girl." (Evan Zimmerman) That’s because they don’t rain on your parade when all you want to do is belt a showtune.

In real life, Fanny Brice couldn’t sing a lick. She became a star a century ago as an unparalleled vaudeville comedienne at a time when it was strictly a man’s job to make ‘em laugh.