Funny Girl Musical 2018 Running Time

Funny Girl

The life of Fanny Brice, who rose from the Lower East Side of New York to become one of Broadway's biggest stars under producer Florenz Ziegfield. While she was cheered onstage as a great comedian, offstage she faced a doomed relationship with the man she loved.

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very hard for anyone to ever compare to barbra streisand in any way but sheridan smith definitely made this role her own. i know she struggled so much during the run of this production and the whole show was essentially hell for her but she doesn't show it one bit.

i didn't enjoy the somewhat faster arrangement of 'don't rain on my parade' and i REALLY wish they'd included 'my man' at the end but otherwise i enjoyed this a lot.
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Barbra Streisand was nothing like Fanny Brice, whether her film of Funny Lady was any good, or not. Sheridan Smith, here, doesn't just resemble Brice's mix of vulnerable song and quirky comedy, but she's adept at making the irritating character likeable.

Great, at last, to see something which does justice to the musical and to the lady it is meant to portray. This is filmed theatre, sure, but a superior example.
misguided...it was never meant to be small and stripped-down

switching babs' reediness and vitality for heft and kiddieness and vulgarity... ¡qué corrientura!
A belter. It's easy to see why Sheridan Smith won so many hearts and plaudits here, because she makes the part of Fanny Brice her own, drawing perhaps on her own personal affinity with the character and achieving what you may previously have thought impossible by making you forgot about Barbra Streisand.

But it's not just a one woman show, Darius Campbell provides sterling support as Nicky. A veteran of the West End now, he's come a long, long way since that cringe-inducing audition for the talent show Popstars
Sheridan is truly an incredible actress. I have seen too many people on this app complaining that she didn't sing My Man... emm hello?? That song is not in the stage show and it never has been. It was put in to the movie (which I think makes for a slightly less impactful ending to the film but oh well) but it's not in the show. So please do some research before shouting about not hearing your favourite song. Sheridan plays Brice so well, really capturing her stage presence and personality.
Was I supposed to feel sorry for Nick Armstrong? Silly boy felt emasculated by his successful wife who gave up everything to fund his gambling. Great musical score, fab cast but not a fan of the narrative. Romanticising only being whole with one person, relying on him to feel beautiful and to top it all off HE breaks HER heart. Fanny darling you can do a better.
this was so spectacular! so sad i missed it.
Saw this at the Menier, at the Savoy and now on screen. Such a fantastic production and Sheridan does away with the ghost of Streisand's towering performance with her own comedic take on Fanny. Who knew there was so much heart in this fairytale?
I liked this better than I expected to. Sheridan Smith is no Barbra Streisand, but she was funny and made the role her own. I wish they had beefed up the orchestra for the recording (and the sets and the costumes and the cast size), and the guy playing Nick does nothing for me, but I'm glad I watched regardless.
listen. I never review things without watching them fully, and I really tried to watch this whole production, but I could not get through the entire thing. I really wanted to enjoy this because I love the songs and the story, not just the original movie ! I don't feel toobad about skipping some of the second act to go to the end because it's the more boring part of the story anyway. But when I got to the end I saw that she doesn't even sing "My Man" at the end ??? what the fuck ???

I don't understand the stripped-down production and costume design. The costumes, especially her more formal gowns, are so cheap looking and, frankly, kind…
I was still on a high from introducing the film to some of my friends, so I decided to watch the West End production which I got to see on the big screen back in 2018. No, Sheridan Smith is not Barbra Streisand, and I'm glad she wasn't trying to be. Her goofiness is probably closer to the real Fanny Brice than what Streisand did, and while that broadness does take some getting used to initially, it becomes rewarding as it goes along.

As for the show itself, I do think the tempo in some songs felt either too slow ("I'm The Greatest Star") or too fast ("Who Are You Now?"), but they're mostly just right. The simple set design…
Saw this on stage with Sheriden Smith's understudy, who was simply sublime. I had always thought it a slight shame we didn't get to see Smith, but I'm now glad we didn't.

Smith just kept corpsing and gurning to the audience...