Fanny Brice

On stage 12 productions, 14 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

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Also credited on1 work

Ziegfeld Follies

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In the literature8 passages

• The draft poses a cultural literacy problem for those who might not know, even in 1940, that Fanny Brice sang “My Man” in Ziegfeld 9 O’Clock Frolic (1920) and Ziegfeld Follies (1921), or that this song was originally the French song “Mon Homme” by Maurice Yvain and Channing Pollock. 54ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Fiorello (La Guardia), George M . (Cohan), Funny Girl (Fanny Brice), Anastasia (Dowager Princess of Russia), Pippin (King Pépin III), Ain’t Misbehavin’ (‘Fats’ Waller), Sophisticated Ladies (Duke Ellington), Ben Franklin in Paris, The Rothschilds, Coco (Chanel), Mack and Mabel (Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand), Song of Norway , (Edvard Gri…ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
• In My Fair Lady it is the bet that Higgins can transform Eliza into a ‘lady’ and in Funny Girl, Fanny Brice’s love of clowning and her decision not to try to be beautiful (which is dropped in early in the first act) pays off when she enters dressed as the pregnant bride to become the hit of the Ziegfeld Follies.ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
• The big controversy was whether or not Fanny Brice should sing “My Man,” her signature song. Styne was adamant that she should not, but must sing an original song in the style of “My Man.” What he and Merrill wrote was a stunner: “The Music That Makes Me Dance.”ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• Eddie Cantor did the bulk of his work on Broadway in the Ziegfeld Follies , where he became good friends with W. C. Fields, Will Rogers, Fanny Brice. And then there was a twelve-year absence that ended Christmas Night 1941, when Banjo Eyes opened. The war had begun just a few weeks before and it was the first musical to open on Broadway s…ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• Cast: Fanny Brice, W. C. Fields, Raymond Hitchcock, Ray Dooley, Mary Milburn, Van & Schenck, Florence O’Denishawn, Vera Michelena, Mary Eaton, Channing Pollock, Mary Lewisebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt

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