Funny Girl - 2022 Broadway History , Info & More
August Wilson Theatre (Broadway)
245 W. 52nd St. New York, NY 10019
With music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Bob Merrill and book by Isobel Lennart, Funny Girl has become one of the most beloved Broadway classics, famous for skyrocketing Barbra Streisand to stardom. This bittersweet comedy is the story of the indomitable Fanny Brice, a girl from the Lower East Side who dreamed of a life on the stage. Everyone told her she'd never be a star, but then something funny happened-she became one of the most beloved performers in history, shining brighter than the brightest lights of Broadway. Michael Mayer's bold new production marks the first time Funny Girl has returned to Broadway since its debut 58 years ago.
Funny Girl - 2022 - Broadway Cast
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Adrian Horton
9 / 10
Singing aside - and, as Fanny successfully makes her case for fame in a song called I'm The Greatest Star, singing is most of the point - Michele also handily carried the show's vaudevillian humor and Fanny's transformation from chorus line wannabe to young bride to seasoned star with a combustible marriage. Whereas Feldstein played Fannie as more precocious and naive, even after her marriage to gambler Nicky Arnstein (Ramin Karimloo), Michele's Fanny is more scrappy and sensual; she's a much more convincing partner, emotionally and physically, to Karimloo's suave, older Nicky. Michele's Fanny brims with determination and potent self-delusion - the kind one needs to become a star, the kind that propelled both her character on Glee (who went on to star in a fictional revival of Funny Girl) and Michele's own fraught celebrity. It is, in other words, a very good fit of actor and character, and the type of meta pop culture moment that delivers the thrill of feeling fated.
Lea Michele: A Spectacular ‘Funny Girl’, At Last – Broadway Review
10 / 10
From the moment she begins to sing the opening number 'Who Are You Now?,' audiences relax in the assurance that this musical, for whatever its other merits - or lack thereof, and there is plenty of lack thereof - will be sung by a voice that can do it justice. No, more than justice, because Michele is so good in the role of Fanny that she lifts the entire mixed-bag production if not up to her level then pretty darn close. She makes performers who were fine the first time around - Ramin Karimloo as Nick Arnstein, Peter Francis James as Florenz Ziegfeld - seem all that much better, and raises the general level of performance to such a degree that the terrific Jared Grimes, as dance teacher Eddie, now no longer seems adrift during his spectacular tap dance routines: He seems a part of the show, rather apart from the show.
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If a Girl Isn't Pretty
I'm the Greatest Star
Eddie's Fifth Encore
Cornet Man
Who Taught Her Everything
His Love Makes Me Beautiful
I Want to Be Seen with You Tonight
Henry Street
People
You Are Woman
Don't Rain on My Parade
Sadie, Sadie
Find Yourself a Man
Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat
Who Are You Now?
The Music That Makes Me Dance
Downtown Rag
A Block Party
Something About Me
A Helluva Group
Sleep Now, Baby Bunting
It Took a Little Time
Absent Minded Me
A Temporary Arrangement
It's Home
Funny Girl [i]
I Did It on Roller Skates
My Daughter, Fanny the Star
He's Got Larceny in His Heart
Baltimore Sun
He
Racing Form Lullaby
Do Puppies Go to Heaven?
I Tried
When I Talk About You
Roller Skate Rag
The Swan
Funny Girl [ii]
Locked in a Pink Velvet Jail
I'd Rather Be Blue Over You
Second Hand Rose
My Man
Funny Girl History
Other Productions of Funny Girl
| 1964 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
| 1966 | West End |
London Production West End |
| 1986 | Off-Off-Broadway |
Equity Library Theatre Revival Off-Off-Broadway |
| 2001 | Milburn, NJ (Regional) |
Paper Mill Production Milburn, NJ (Regional) |
| 2002 | Broadway |
Actors' Fund Concert Broadway |
| 2012 | Broadway |
Broadway Revival Broadway |
| 2015 | West End |
Menier Chocolate Factory West End Revival Production West End |
| 2016 | West End |
Menier Chocolate Factory West End Transfer West End |
| 2022 | Broadway |
Broadway Revival Production Broadway |
| 2023 | US Tour |
North American Tour US Tour |
Funny Girl - 2022 Broadway Awards and Nominations
| Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Theatre World Awards | Dorothy Loudon Award for Excellence in the Theater | Julie Benko |
| 2022 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Choreography | Ayodele Casel |
| 2022 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical | Susan Hilferty |
| 2022 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Jared Grimes |
| 2022 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Awards | Beanie Feldstein |
| 2022 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Awards | Jane Lynch |
| 2022 | Drama League Awards | Outstanding Direction of a Musical | Michael Mayer |
| 2022 | Drama League Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Musical | Funny Girl |
| 2022 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical | Jared Grimes |
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