Sheridan Smith for Playhouse

Smith to reprise Funny Girl role in UK tour

Sheridan Smith is to tour to the Edinburgh Playhouse in April 2017, playing Fanny Brice in Funny Girl, for which she earned five star plaudits at London’s Savoy Theatre.

The production opened to critical and commercial acclaim at the Menier Chocolate Factory before transferring to the Savoy Theatre.

Funny Girl Sheridan Smith. Photo Johan Persson

The semi-biographical musical is based on the life and career of film actress and comedian Fanny Brice, plotting her rise from Brooklyn music hall singer to Broadway star and featuring her stormy relationship with entrepreneur and gambler Nick Arnstein.

First staged on Broadway in 1964, it brought brought global fame to Barbra Streisand as Fanny, who reprised the role for the London production in 1966 and again for the 1968 movie.

With music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Bob Merrill, it boasts some of the most iconic songs in film and theatre history, including People and Don’t Rain On My Parade, which became two of Streisand’s signature tunes.

The Chocolate Factory revival is directed by Michael Mayer and choreographed by Lynne Page. It will tour extensively in 2017 until July, with Sheridan Smith billed to appear in Manchester, Milton Keynes, Liverpool, Bristol, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Newcastle, Southampton, Bradford, Southend, Cardiff and Dublin. Further casting has yet to be announced.

Listings

Funny Girl
Edinburgh Playhouse, 18 – 22 Greenside Place, EH1 3AA.
Tuesday 18 – Saturday 22 April 2017
Daily, 7.30pm. Matinees Wednesday, Saturday at 2.30pm.

Tickets and booking details: http://www.atgtickets.com/shows/funny-girl/edinburgh-playhouse/

Funny Girls website: http://www.funnygirlthemusical.co.uk/

Sheridan Smith’s original cast recording of the Mernier production is available from Amazon. Click below for the CD or MP3 Download.

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