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Mar 26, 2016 · March 26, 2016. Johnny Desmond and Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl. Friedman-Abeles / The New York Public Library. When Funny Girl arrived on Broadway in 1964, it made an...
Feb 23, 2022 · Star making: Barbra Streisand with Johnny Desmond in scene from “Funny Girl,” in 1964. Credit... Friedman-Abeles, via The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Description. Based on incidents in the life of Fanny Brice. Setting. Shortly before and after World War I. Various theatres, onstage and backstage, on New York's lower East Side, in Baltimore, and on Long Island. People. Songs. Awards. Production Staff. Opening Night Cast. Replacements. Theatre Owned / Operated by The Shubert Organization.
On this page about Funny Girl on Broadway in 1964, Barbra Archives includes quotes from its main players: Irene Sharaff on costumes and Streisand, David Shire on conducting the orchestra, and the torrid tale of Sydney Chaplin leaving the show to be replaced by George Reeder, then Johnny Desmond.
Mar 26, 2018 · March 26, 2021. Barbra Streisand and Sadie, 1965 Friedman-Abeles/NYPL. The original Broadway production of Funny Girl opened at the Winter Garden Theatre March 26, 1964. The musical, starring a...
Mar 26, 2015 · Playbill.com takes a look back at her work as Broadway's original Funny Girl. Celebrating its anniversary today, Funny Girl, starring Barbra Streisand in her star-making turn, opened on March 26 ...
