Funny Girl (film) What infuriated me was the way they did things—never telling me, never talking to me, just cutting. I think they were afraid that if they were nice to me, Barbra would have been upset." In her book "Talking Back: Images of Jewish Women in American Popular Culture", Joyce Antler writes that Streisand has created several rich images of a Jewish woman within film, "Funny Girl" being one of them. In "Funny Girl", Antler writes, Streisand is able to portray a character that is obviously Jewish, and in this role she creates a space for the intelligent Jewish woman to be
The Back-up Plan (Glee) role as Fanny Brice in "Funny Girl." She travels to LA under the guise of being sick to audition for a television pilot, "Song" "of" "Solomon", against the advice of her roommate Kurt Hummel (Chris Colfer). In California, she auditions with The Rose, and is informed it is not a musical. The audition goes uncomfortably awry, partially due to the unfamiliar galactic jargon. Sidney, the producer of "Funny Girl", calls to tell her to be at the theater at 7:30 as her understudy has injured herself. Rachel is horrified to discover the state of the traffic jam her taxi is