| re: Casting Funny Girl |
| Last Edit: Delvino 04:34 pm EDT 08/21/22 |
| Posted by: Delvino 04:30 pm EDT 08/21/22 |
| In reply to: re: Casting Funny Girl - simbo 05:51 pm EDT 08/20/22 |
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After posting I realized that my biographical points are off topic, since the OP poses an intriguing parlor game: could Brice vocally handle the Styne score. I chose to guess whether the musicalized bio capture the essence of the real Brice. It’s topic adjacent anyway.
Clarifying: I don’t think FG or any musical or play has some historical obligation to create a factual narrative (see Amadeus, which I discussed on Twitter this morning). My point should be: the real Brice’s story is more compelling than the one Leonart sets forth in the fabrication. And the real Brice was a complicated woman who might’ve inspired a better piece of storytelling. Funny Girl fails not because it doesn’t stick to the facts; it creaks because it’s a thin, soapy romance projected onto a life with compelling contradictions. An equally fictitious portrait that rearranges and invents chronology might dig deeper and not tread so much uninteresting water about Fanny’s blind spot about her husband’s criminality. |
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