Funny Girl (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Funny Girl (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Funny Girl (Original Broadway Cast Recording) is the original Broadway cast recording of the musical "Funny Girl", loosely based on the life of Fanny Brice: the show opened on March 26, 1964 at the Winter Garden Theater, starring Barbra Streisand. It is considered a Streisand's album since she performed 12 out of its 17 tracks. It was recorded in a one-day session, quickly after its Broadway debut, and released one week later by Capitol Records, marking the first time a Streisand album was not released through Columbia. At the time, Streisand was already a
Fanny Brice Wall Street securities. Instead of turning himself in, as in the movie, Arnstein went into hiding. When he finally surrendered, he did not plead guilty as he did in the movie, but fought the charges, taking a toll on his wife's finances. In 2010, "One Night with Fanny Brice", a one-woman show about Brice written and directed by Chip Deffaa and starring Kimberly Faye Greenberg premiered in New Jersey. The cast album, on the "Original Cast" label (OC-3831), was released in September 2010. The next production of the show, by the American Century Theatre Co. of Arlington, Virginia, starring Esther