Word: brice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Otherwise, this extended Streisand Special has done absolutely nothing to correct the flaws in the Broadway original. This popcornball backstage biography of Fanny Brice still contains lines out of the Late Show: "You're no chorus girl, you're a singer." "I love to hear an audience applaud, but you can't take an audience home with you." "I can't go-not like this." As Nick Arnstein, Fanny's hard-luck gambler husband, Omar Sharif, of all people, is only required to stand and listen with large liquid eyes. The rest of the cast...
...bored spectator. Answered another: "Only Senator Javits." With all the glamour around, there was no reason for a mere political pooh-bah to titillate the thousands who assembled outside Broadway's Criterion Theater for the benefit premiere of Funny Girl, the movie musical of the life of Fanny Brice. George Segal showed up in a double-breasted Nehru jacket, Rod Steiger in a black shirt with gold medallion, and Leading Man Omar Sharif in an old-fashioned tuxedo with wide peaked lapels. But all oohs and ahs were for the star of the spectacle, Brooklyn's own Barbra...
BELLPORT, L.I., Red Barn Theater. All the joys and woes of Fanny Brice, America's sweetheart of the 1920s, are put to music in Funny Girl...
...poverty campaign. "This money is to be given with no strings attached, and that's a big order for some to swallow," said California's progressive Bishop C. Kilmer Myers, who supports the proposal but thinks it will have trouble being approved. The Rev. James Brice Clark of Nebraska asked: "Why should the church put money into poverty projects when there are federal projects covering the same ground?" There were also questions about whether the church is capable of such extravagant altruism, since 1967 national receipts are running $500,000 below expectations...
MUSIC THEATER, Brunswick, Me. Funny Girl, the story of Fanny Brice, who could make men laugh more easily than make them love, until Aug. 12. Then Aug. 14-19, it will be On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Alan lay Lerner's musical trip through the worlds of the extrasensory, the clairvoyant, and the reincarnated, followed by The Music Man and his 76 trombones, Aug. 21-Sept...