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
Funny Girl (musical) with Lennart and told Stark he wanted her replaced because he thought she was not capable of adapting her screenplay into a viable book for a stage musical. Stark refused and Robbins quit the project. "Funny Girl" temporarily was shelved, and Styne moved on to other projects, including "Fade Out – Fade In" for Carol Burnett. Then Merrick signed Bob Fosse to direct "Funny Girl", and work began on it again, until Fosse quit and the show went into limbo for several months. Then Merrick suggested Stark hire Garson Kanin. It was Merrick's last contribution to the production; shortly afterward