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) night party on "Henry Street". Fanny is clearly falling in love with Nick, while acknowledging their complex vulnerabilities ("People"). Later they meet in Baltimore and have a private dinner at a swanky restaurant and declare their feelings ("You Are Woman"). Fanny is determined to marry Nick, regardless of his gambling past ("Don't Rain on My Parade"). They do marry and move to a mansion on Long Island ("Sadie, Sadie"). In the meantime, Mrs. Strakosh and Eddie propose to Miss. Brice that she should find a man to marry, now that her daughter is supporting her ("Find Yourself a Man"). Fanny