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re: UGH! I can't think of a worse choice to re-invent this material...

Posted by:	PlayWiz 02:16 pm EST 11/02/15
In reply to:	re: UGH! I can't think of a worse choice to re-invent this material... - simbo 05:47 am EST 11/02/15

I think "Find Yourself a Man" also serves a purpose to give Fanny a rest, as she has a big load of songs to sing; she's very rarely off the stage. I don't know if the real Brice ever sang as Baby Snooks, who I believe she mainly performed on radio, but I agree that it would have been a fun thing for the creators to have musicalized. In either the film "Funny Girl" or "Funny Lady" (I forget which) there is a short scene where she has just finished performing Snooks in costume in front of an audience watching a radio broadcast. "Rat-tat-a-tat" is amusing, as there is a YouTube video of Mimi Hines doing it. The film's problem is the much weaker 2nd half: besides "Sadie, Sadie" it doesn't have much comedy in it. "The Swan" is too weak and not really funny, even if we are shown cutaway shots to the audience enjoying it. Also, the song "Funny Girl" isn't anywhere as good as "Who Are You Now" and "The Music That Makes Me Dance", two gorgeous ballads which were dropped. Yes, "My Man" works extremely well as the replacement for the latter, but the 2nd half is too melodramatic and lacking in "funny". The stage show at least has "Sadie", "Find Yourself A Man" and "Rat-tat-tat-tat" to keep things from getting too heavy.

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