Composer: Jule Styne
Playwright: Isobel Lennart
Lyricist: Bob Merrill
Funny Girl is the story of beloved comedienne Fanny Brice, following her from her youth in New York’s Lower East Side, to burlesque and vaudeville, her big break with the Ziegfeld Follies and her relationship with Nick Arnstein. A triumphant story of starry success and a bittersweet story of love, Jule Styne and Bob Merrill’s Funny Girl is a musical theatre classic which celebrates the exuberant and elegant flavor of Broadway in the 1910s and 20s and the comic genius of Fanny Brice. Featuring such beloved songs as “People”, “Don’t Rain on My Parade”, and “Sadie, Sadie.”