The Baby Snooks Show. Thirteen years after her death, she was portrayed on the Broadway stage by Barbra Streisand in the musical Funny Girl and its 1968 film adaptation. Fanny Brice (occasionally ...

(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 ...

One of the crown jewels of the Kravis Center’s impressive Broadway season, “Funny Girl” is based on the life of comedian and singer Fanny Brice, one of the biggest stars of stage and radio ...

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.

Playing the celebrated Jewish vaudeville comedian and singer Fanny Brice, Streisand went on to win an Oscar for best actress for the 1968 film adaptation and launch her legendary six-decade career.