Funny Girl on Stage Tonight

The Stockton Performing Arts Center is proud to present Mainstage Theatre's production of Funny Girl on Monday, March 25 at 8PM.

Funny Girl is a fun-fest musical about a gawky girl whose love for the stage drives her on until she becomes Ziegfeld's brightest star. The show is one of the biggest smash-hit musical comedies of its time, this award-winning musical production, told mostly in flashback, recreates all the splendor of the Ziegfeld Follies of the 1920s and poignantly reveals the private life of Fanny Brice.

Funny Girl is a generally faithful re-telling of parts of the career of the real Fanny Brice, who was born in New York in 1891, and became one of the brightest comediennes of the American musical theatre for some 25 years. She made her first stage appearance in Brooklyn in A Royal Slave, and entered vaudeville in 1910. That same year she had her first assignment in a Ziegfeld show, and she was associated with Ziegfeld for the next 24 years.

As this musical relates, she married the celebrated gambler, Nicky Arnstein, and later divorced him. Another marriage was to the dynamic, diminutive producer, Billy Rose, and this marriage too did not last.

She arrived in Hollywood in the 1930s and made innumerable films, performing her familiar sketches and songs. One of her most memorable screen appearances was portraying herself in The Great Ziegfeld.

It was through radio that Fanny Brice reached her largest audiences. She first had a very popular show in the mid-30s on which she performed a variety of comedy characters. The most beloved of these was Baby Snooks, which became a household favorite across the country.

Fanny Brice died in 1951, leaving extremely happy memories with everyone who ever saw or heard her, of her uproarious comedy routines, of her poignant songs-and funny songs-of My Man, Second Hand Rose, Rose of Washington Square. Her singing was superb, her capacity at clowning even greater.

A large and lively evening of entertainment, Funny Girl is a dazzling combination of the glorious comedy of the legendary Fanny Brice and a brilliant, talented cast who deliver an exhilarating and memorable night of musical theater.

Tickets to Funny Girl on Monday, March 25 at 8PM are $30 for orchestra and $25 for mezzanine. To order tickets, call the Stockton Performing Arts Center Box Office at (609) 652-9000. The Box Office is open Monday - Friday, 9 AM - 7PM. The Box Office is also open 1 ½ hours before performances. Or order tickets online at www.stockton.edu/pac. Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover Card orders are welcome. For our patrons with special needs, the Stockton Performing Arts Center offers wheelchair accessible seating, large type programs, and listening assistive devices. Please identify any needs you may have when making a reservation.

The Stockton Performing Arts Center, the Jersey Shore's premier Center for the Arts, is located on the campus of The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, on Jim Leeds Road in Pomona (Galloway Township). Just 12 miles west of Atlantic City, the Center is easily accessible from the Garden State Parkway and the Atlantic City Expressway.

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Author: Stockton Performing Arts Center Press Release