Yeh, but FUNNY GIRL is kinda about sex and love. A girl, explicitly a virgin, achieves her career dreams and then throws it all over for the pleasure she is afforded by a handsome gambling addict. His good looks compensate for her low self esteem. And then, like any self-respecting woman who loves too much, she throws him back in the water and rededicates herself to her career. It may not be a great “book”, but a story about a woman commandeering her own pleasuring, sexually, romantically, and artistically, is very attractive to very many and moving. Is it unique? A woman navigating her own sex and love life?
We don’t ever really get to see a Julie or a Laury investigate her sexual chemistry except in the one’s ballet. And it’s Styne’s music and Merrill’s words that give us her searching-for-orgasm songs. Sally Bowles is all bravado and denial compared to Fanny and Fanny’s desire. |
