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
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