This tour opened at Manchester Palace on 20th February and closed at Southend Cliffs Pavilion on 19th August 2017.
★★★★★
Don’t believe this five-star hype? Go see for yourselves… if you can get in.
The Telegraph
★★★★★
Michael Mayer’s exhilarating embrace of a production.
The Independent
The 5-star production opens at Manchester Palace where it runs for a week from 20 February, before touring to venues including Milton Keynes Theatre, Liverpool Empire, Bristol Hippodrome, Stoke Regent Theatre, His Majesty's Theatre Aberdeen, Edinburgh Playhouse, New Victoria Theatre Woking, Marlowe Theatre Canterbury, Birmingham Hippodrome, Newcastle Theatre Royal, Mayflower Theatre Southampton, King’s Theatre Glasgow, Nottingham Theatre Royal and Southend Cliffs Pavilion.
Funny Girl brought global fame to Barbra Streisand 50 years ago and boasts some of the most iconic songs in film and theatre history, including ‘People’ and ‘Don’t Rain On My Parade’. This ‘iconic, legendary, laugh-out-loud’ (The Times) musical tells the story of Fanny Brice, whose vocal talents and comedic ability see her rise from Brooklyn music hall singer to Broadway star.
Funny Girl is produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, Scott Landis Productions, Chocolate Factory Productions, Dante Di Loreto and Michael Harrison.
★★★★
Triumphantly reinvents Funny Girl for a new generation.
Evening Standard
CAST
SHERIDAN SMITH
NATASHA J. BARNES
DARIUS CAMPBELL
NIGEL BARBER
ZOE ANN BROWN
MARTIN CALLAGHAN
JENNIFER HARDING
RACHEL IZEN
JOSHUA LAY
MYRA SANDS
RHIANNE ALLEYNE
KIT BENJAMIN
LLOYD DAVIES
FLORA DAWSON
JOSEPH DOCKREE
ABIGAYLE HONEYWILL
BRONTE LAVINE
DAVID MCINTOSH
PETER NASH
GILLIAN PARKHOUSE
TOM PARTRIDGE
ALEXANDREA WAIT-ROBERTS
SAM WINGFIELD
ALEXANDREA WRIGHT
CREATIVES
BOB MERRILL – Lyrics
ISOBEL LENNART – Book
HARVEY FIERNSTEIN – Revised Book
MICHAEL MAYER – Director
LYNNE PAGE – Choreography
MICHAEL PAVELKA – Set Designer
MATTHEW WRIGHT – Costume Designer
MARK HENDERSON – Lighting Designer
RICHARD BROOKER – Sound Designer
JULE STYNE – Music
ALAN WILLIAMS – Musical Supervisor and Arrangements
CHRIS WALKER – Orchestrations
THEO JAMIESON – Musical Director
CAMPBELL YOUNG ASSOCIATES – Wigs, Hair and Make-Up