Fania Borach (October 29, 1891 – May 29, 1951), known professionally as Fanny Brice or Fannie Brice, was an American comedienne, illustrated song model, singer, and theater and film actress who made ...

Pulitzer Prizewinner Van Wyck Brooks (The Flowering of New England) got a license at 61 to marry Gladys Rice Billings, 60, remote in-law of Massachusetts Senator Leverett. Saltonstall, Songwriter, ...

CHICO — You definitely don’t want to rain on this parade. This week I interviewed “Funny Girl” lead actress Leahana Mishelof, lead actor Owen Hansen and director Brian Holderman. The show, which is ...

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — Broadway, radio and film entertainer and comedian Fanny Brice (1891-1951) was the stuff of legend — a star in producer Florenz Ziegfeld’s Follies who went on to become Broadway's ...

Fanny Brice was a major star on Broadway from 1910 through the mid-1930s. She was also a radio star with her character Baby Snooks and appeared in several early talkie films, finally playing herself ...

The Capital Region is welcoming home one of its exceptionally talented actors this week when Proctors presents the national tour of "Funny Girl" through Sunday. Annabelle Duffy is a 2019 graduate of ...

The national tour of the musical “Funny Girl” opens at Proctors in Schenectady on Tuesday. It’s based on the life of comedienne Fanny Brice, one of the most important figures in 20th century ...

I’ve read one review of the touring show of “Funny Girl” stating Hannah Shankman didn’t have the “star power” needed to play Fanny Brice. I’m not sure who that critic saw, because Shankman had the ...

Grammy Award winner Melissa Manchester will bring her singing, songwriting/composing and acting skills to Columbus when she takes the stage as Mrs. Rose Brice, the 1908 Brooklyn, N.Y., Jewish saloon ...

With a blend of audacious humor, soaring ambition and passionate romance, the character of Fanny Brice demands a multi-faceted performance by the leading lady of "Funny Girl." "She gets to be deeply ...

Few serial characters of our time have excited such mixed emotions as Fanny Brice’s Baby Snooks. Regarded by some as a loathly brat, by others as a most comical moppet, Snooks has been a mainstay of ...