Barbra Streisand won an Oscar for her portrayal of legendary stage comedian Fanny Brice as she breaks into show business, rises to stardom with the Ziegfeld Follies and finds heartache in her ...

Barbra Streisand arrives on the screen, in “Funny Girl,” when the movies are in desperate need of her. The timing is perfect. There’s hardly a star in American movies today, and if we’ve ...

The life of the 1930s comedienne Fannie Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies. (1968) Watch all your favourite ABC programs ...

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.

The funny thing about the Jule Styne/Bob Merrill musical FUNNY GIRL is trying to pinpoint a definitive production since it was first performed in the early sixties. Because of the script rewrites ...

"Funny Girl" starts a six-day run at the Paramount Theatre starting Tuesday. Evening spoke with the show’s leading lady ...

“Miss Streisand is wonderful. [And] there is such a veil of success about Funny Girl that I feel protectively wrapped by it.” Watch her perform “The Music That Makes Me Dance” from Funny ...

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 1968 American biographical musical comedy-drama film directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by Isobel Lennart was adapted from her book for the eponymous stage musical.

Barbra Streisand stars in her Oscar-winning role as 1930s comedienne Fannie Brice, as this musical comedy charts the story of her life and upbringing in New York.