Did Fanny Brice Do The Pregnant Bride?

It actually took Fanny 5 years, from the 13-year-old girl winning her first amateur night at Keeney’s to her show-stopping debut in Ziegfeld’s Follies of 1910, for her to reach stardom, not a decade as you mentioned. But you did a terrific job on this. Thank you!!! PS: I met Ray Stark and Bill Brice a number of times; Bill invited me to lunch on numerous occasions and related stories of his parents and his Uncle Lew, Fanny’s brother. I was humbled that he confided in me and trusted me enough to tell me things that weren’t necessarily flattering about his father.

I was born in 45. I saw “Funny Girl” on Broadway in 64. It was always a packed house. One of the main reasons it was so popular was because of Barbara Streisand. She has a beautiful voice. The outstanding shows I remember were “The Music man” with Robert Preston. The “Odd Couple” with Walter Matthau and Art Carney. “Play it again Same” with you know who. The cast in the film was the same. My fair Lady” with Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews. Hello Dolly with Carol Channing. I met people who saw “the Marx Brothers” on Broadway. They were very popular. One of the reasons is they use to involve the audience in the show.

Are you familiar with William Shakespeare? He wrote many “historical” plays about real life characters (Richard the III, Henry the IV, etc.) These plays are considered among the greatest plays ever written, but they are far from accurate. He was not trying to be accurate, and these plays’ greatness has nothing to do with acuity or the lack thereof. His plays are art; so is this one. They use the shell of the story to make artistic statements. Judging what Funny Girl got right and wrong is just dumb.

God, the staging of this was beautiful: glamorous, silly, over the top, and still doing story-telling work. This is the kind of thing you probably only could have done in a film. I would imagine reconstructing this scene in the new modern stage musical would be sort of impossible after audiences had already seen a movie version like this.

I was also only 12 in 1968 and my friends and I wanted to see Oliver, but, because of a snow storm, we had to go to a theatre closer to home, and Funny Girl was playing there so we had to “settle”. I was blown away by Streisand’s voice, style and overall talent. I walked out of the theatre as one of her biggest fans since. She’s made it easy to be a fan all these years. She’s always been an amazing talent and I always looked forward to her work.

He loves her enough to woo her, to sway her, to get her to let her guard down, than he marries her. He made his plan known not just to her but to everyone. He did not go about things in the correct want of Family honor. That is how it is sometimes. She loves him, she never noticed anyone else much till him. She never feared competition until she was in this position. Draped in lace, silk, flowers, diamonds carrying the proof of the union love or not. She sees herself the display of everyones work and hopes than it gets overwhelming. Yet the men laugh, forgotten their mothers bodies, and the lust they given many. They left the theater telling their wives and friends that they are not gentlemen. The woman sat still and quiet. Being pregnant is the most feminine time of a woman’s existance. Most venerable, heightened feelings, to other women it is supposed to be the most beautiful time of the neighborhoods up coming shared joy. Yet the men laughed. Thats what men think of pregnant women. So Yes, she not fired, Yes, she is not continue with the pillow. There reactions hold a mirror to a truth the audience was not aware of when they walked in. Those that didn’t laugh got their hearts broken. This is theater finest.