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Darcy Pulliam as Mrs. Brice and Kevin Cotter as Fanny's toe-tapping friend Eddie Ryan are delightful in two minor numbers, "Who Taught Her Everything," and "Find Yourself a Man," Cotter has the best voice in the cast. My favorite character has always been the neighborhood yenta Mrs. Strakosh, Eva Piques, who inherited this gem, has read either not enough or too much Philip Roth. She swallowed some of her best lines (especially "When a girl's incidentals are no bigger than two lentils, then to me that doesn't spell success."). For this I waited...

Author: By Mike Kinsley, | Title: Theatre Funny Girl at Agassiz this weekend and next | 11/14/1970 | See Source »

...father must have financial independence to finish his great symphony, she bargained herself to one of his rich friends for an endowment of $250.000. Though most men, including the men of her own family, fell in love with her, Anitra did not return the emotion until young Pianist Strakosh burst on her view. But alas, the new fashion of "unhappy endings"' dictated that Anitra should be carried off by a sudden hemorrhage, with Strakosh absent on a triumphant concert tour, and just at the moment when Papa Bruno at last conquered the impasse of his unfinished theme. Physical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hurstwurst | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

...Strakosh yesterday signed a five years' lease of the Twenty-third street Theatre in New York, hitherto occupied by Salmi Morse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 6/1/1883 | See Source »

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