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
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