The run closed September 3, 2023
- Opened
- April 24, 2022
- Closed
- September 3, 2023
- Performances
- 476
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- August Wilson Theatre
Of the 175 productions we hold that opened in the 2020s and record a performance count, this is the 5th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Funny Girl 2 more that season
| 1964 | Winter Garden Theatre Original · Jerome Robbins, Garson Kanin | 1,348 perf. |
| 2002 | New Amsterdam Theatre Revival · Ray Stark | 1 perf. |
Who was in it21 named
Jared Grimes
Ephie Aardema
Toni Dibuono
Amber Ardolino
Leslie Donna Flesner
Stephen Mark Lukas
Katie Mitchell
Justin Prescott
Michael Mastro
Paolo Montalban
Curtis Holland
Amy Laviolette
9 of these 21 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 12 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
- Michael Mayer
- Choreographer
- Ellenore Scott
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
Funny Girl is a musical with score by Jule Styne, lyrics by Bob Merrill, and book by Isobel Lennart, that first opened on Broadway in 1964. The semi-biographical plot is based on the life and career of comedian and Broadway star Fanny Brice, featuring her stormy relationship with entrepreneur and gambler Nicky Arnstein. Barbra Streisand starred in the original Broadway musical, produced by Brice's son-in-law Ray Stark. The production received eight nominations at the 18th Tony Awards. The original cast recording of Funny Girl was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2004. A Broadway revival opened April 24, 2022, starring Beanie Feldstein as Brice and Ramin Karimloo as Arnstein. Lea Mich…
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.