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re: The 1964 "Funny Girl" Single

Posted by:	pierce 01:18 am EDT 09/11/14
In reply to:	re: The 1964 "Funny Girl" Single - lordofspeech 04:45 pm EDT 09/10/14

Your suggestion that it may have been intended as an onstage number - placed, perhaps, where "Cornet Man" ended up - seems the most likely possibility. It would have been a way of establishing (to both the audience at Keeney's and the audience at the Winter Garden) that Fanny Brice's character was happy & proud to be the girl who keeps 'em laughing, but she also had a vulnerable streak. However, I should point out that I also read the song was never intended for the Broadway show; that it was written strictly as a promotional tool - a way of keeping the words Funny Girl in front of the public. If Jule Styne and Bob Merrill were still around, they'd be able to give us more great songs & also the full back story on this one. Then again, I can always ask Barbra; sometimes we get together for sushi on Columbus Avenue. NOT.

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