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Funny Girl garnered 8 Academy Award nominations, with Streisand winning Best Actress for her film debut. [ 17 ] [ 16 ] In an Academy Award rarity that has never been repeated, Streisand's win was a tie vote with Katharine Hepburn, who also won for The Lion in Winter at the 41st Academy Awards . [ 29 ]
Funny Lady is a 1975 American biographical musical comedy-drama film and the sequel to the 1968 film Funny Girl. The film stars Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Omar Sharif, Roddy McDowall and Ben Vereen. Herbert Ross, who helmed the musical sequences for Funny Girl (which had been directed by William Wyler), serves as the director.
Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand (/ ˈ s t r aɪ s æ n d / STRY-sand; born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, songwriter, producer, and director.With a career spanning over six decades, she has achieved success across multiple fields of entertainment, being the first performer awarded an EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony).
The first Broadway revival of 'Funny Girl' reveals why it's taken so long to return.
Mimi Hines — the legendary singer, rubber-faced comedian, television star and Broadway performer who famously replaced Barbra Streisand in the original cast of Funny Girl — died on Monday, Oct ...
Mimi Hines, the Canadian comedian and stage actress who succeeded Barbra Streisand in the Broadway production of “Funny Girl,” has died. She was 91. Hines died of natural causes on Oct. 21 in ...
Funny Girl is a musical with score by Jule Styne, lyrics by Bob Merrill, and book by Isobel Lennart, that first opened on Broadway in 1964. The semi-biographical plot is based on the life and career of comedian and Broadway star Fanny Brice , featuring her stormy relationship with entrepreneur and gambler Nicky Arnstein .
The problem with this uninspired revival of “Funny Girl” — which opened at the August Wilson Theatre on Sunday, marking the show’s Broadway return after nearly 60 years — is not simply ...