Fritzi Burr theater and in skits with the vaudeville comedy team of Smith and Dale. By the late 1950s, she was working on Broadway and appeared in ""I Can Get It for You Wholesale,"" the show in which Barbra Streisand first gained national attention. Later, Burr replaced Kaye Medford as the mother of Fanny Brice (played by Streisand) in "Funny Girl" (1968). Burr worked regularly in small theaters and dinner theaters and in touring companies of such musicals as ""Fiddler on the Roof"", in which she played, at different times, Yente and Tevye's long-suffering wife, Golde. But, moving to Hollywood, she also
Funny Girl (musical) the hands of the director Joil Newman who exchanged the female role of Fanny with Funnie Brice, a male. The actor Julio Cesar Arturo Valverde Monje was hired to play the iconic character. The first tour started in Buenos Aires, Argentina at the Teatro Opera, and the cast then traveled to Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Panama. The cast then traveled to the rest of South America with the "Funny Girl" South America Tour 2.0. Opening night was on October 15, 2015. A new London production opened at the Menier Chocolate Factory on November 20, 2015 in previews, officially on December