The run closed July 1, 1967
- Opened
- March 26, 1964
- Closed
- July 1, 1967
- Performances
- 1,348
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Winter Garden Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 10th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Funny Girl 2 more that season
| 2002 | New Amsterdam Theatre Revival · Ray Stark | 1 perf. |
| 2022 | August Wilson Theatre Revival · Michael Mayer | 476 perf. |
Who was in it86 named
Roger de Koven
Joseph Macauley
Prudence Adams
Jose Ahumada
Joan Cory
Diane Coupe
Christine Dalsey
Shellie Farrell
Bud Fleming
Lydia S Fredericks
Ellen Halpin
Blair Hammond
Victor R Helou
Robert Henson
Rosemary Jelincic
Marc Jordan
Karen Kristin
John Lankston
Mary Louise
Joan Lowe
Jeanne Mclaren
Diana Lee Nielsen
John Nola
Joyce O Neil
Alan Peterson
Rose Randolf
Stephanie Reynolds
Sharon Vaughn
Alan E Weeks
Rosemary Yellen
Albert Zimmerman
Lee Allen
Robert Avian
Fritzi Burr
Jackie Cronin
Sheila Dowling
Phil Ford
Richard Ianni
Barbara London
Janet Moody Morris
Lynette Bennett
Larry Brucker
Karen Ford
Beulah Garrick
Linda Jorgens
William Larsen
Donna Monroe
Barbara Rhoades
Rosemarie Barre
Phyllis Bash
Pat Dalsey
Gerry Dalton
Dorothy D Honau
Iris Elliott
Virginia Kerr
Marybeth Kurdock
Harriet Lawyer
Michael Loman
Elizabeth Moore
Shirley Nelson
Hal Norman
Jimmy Pompeii
Jim Ray James
Ken Richards
John D Richardson
Jimmy Smock
Ted Sprague
Terry Violino
Barbara Ann Walters
17 of these 86 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 69 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Jerome Robbins, Garson Kanin
- Choreographer
- Carol Haney
- Producer
- Ray Stark
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Around this production
- Brice’s life provided the material for the Broadway musical Funny Girl (3/26/64), which was later transferred to the screen. The sequel, Funny Lady, also became a hit movie. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 102
- Styne’s next production was his biggest hit. Funny Girl (3/26/64; 1,348 performances), starring Barbra Streisand, opened at the Winter Garden Theatre. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 539
- Bob Merrill, who provided Styne with such strong lyrics for Funny Girl and not such strong ones for Prettybelle, was unable to repeat his popular success with Sugar (4/9/72; 505 performances), a musical adaptation of the Billy Wilder movie Some Like It Hot. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 540
- His next role, as Nick Arnstein in a third Styne musical, Funny Girl, became his swan song to the musical stage. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 38
- The role of Rosie was originally offered tc but she turned it down. She also turned down the role of Fanny Brice in Funny Girl and Flora in The Jazz Singer. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 51
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Funny Girl at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.