Fanny Brice (October 29, 1891 – May 29 ... In 1908, Brice dropped out of school to work in a burlesque revue, and two years later she began her association with Florenz Ziegfeld, headlining ...

Reviewer Kathi Scrizzi Driscoll gives a thumbs-up to 'Funny Girl' now in Boston -- 60 years after Fanny Brice's life made ...

Fanny Brice was a bagel on a plate full of onion rolls. She stuck out. This was (part of the reason) she was so great. A century ago, Brice was the pioneering Jewish comic of Broadway and radio.

The musical depicts the early years of Fanny Brice, who is fiercely determined ... especially with her looks, and a burlesque producer won’t give her a chance. But one song – “I’m the ...

Both starred Barbra Streisand, who for 60 years has been so indelibly associated with playing comedian, actress and singer Fanny Brice, one of the nation’s biggest stars in the first half of the ...

(JTA) — The announcement this week that Katerina McCrimmon would star as Fanny Brice in the national tour of “Funny Girl,” the Broadway musical about a trailblazing Jewish comedian ...