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listening....Jan 2021

Me too. Never get tired of that voice

June 2021

@@Elphaba88 Hello gorgeous 😃

same eeling here........ This one stands out and Works perfectly as a radio friendly-single kind of song.

Yes. the best song in the show!

I agree! 😮

I agree 100%.

You are so fortunate to have seen her in Broadway! I love love love love Barbra. I saw her three times in concert. The first time was with my Mom, it was historical. Best 3 nights of my whole life, I get it!!!!

It was my first Broadway show at age 12 or 13, how could I help becoming a musical junkie? i saw it 3 times, from 3rd row center to standing room. Nothing has ever topped it

@@lisaroberts7266 Wow. Green here. I was only three, and living in Ohio, when this was on Broadway. Oh, to have witnessed it! :)

@jean-pierre huot Nonsense. She has merely always been a mercurial person. For God's sake, she performed FUNNY GIRL and WHOLESALE over 1,400 times btw Broadway & London's West End. Think of how many other interesting things she went on to do, instead of doing endless revivals of Broadway shows like a workhorse showgirl. That was her true belief in herself, not the mere chutzpah of the (admittedly wonderful song) I'M THE GREATEST STAR...

That was her stepping stone.

Read her book, her co-star was incredibly cruel to her and she hated being on stage with him.

Was?

Jean Stapleton said she was " brave and strong in the snakepit " of FG out of town and in trouble.

Get your act together how can you say was Barbra Streisand is still alive your comment should read she is not she was. It is disgraceful to all Barbra Streisand fans and I’m sure it’s disgraceful to Barbra herself

I thought My Man was never included in the Broadway score?

@@williamgardiner2010 yeah, but she sang My Man at curtain call on the final night of the show as a tribute to Fanny Brice. You should listen to the performance on Just For the Record!

@@maroontunesag8488 whenever i listen to that performance i start shaking

Yes. I'm forever grateful that as a teenager, in June of 1965, I was there...unforgettable.

ActingAsaBusiness Yeah, when she showed up, anyway. Even then, Beezer was notoriously lazy, and would either not come to the Winter Garden, or give lackluster performances when she wasn't in the mood.

No.

Rafael Storm Where did you get this information from? I would love to know, and it was no secret Barbra didn't like doing 8 shows a week she was probably sick of it

Dancer21 I read similar accounts from a couple of bios I read of her life on the mid to late 80s. Apparently she became bored with the routine and had a lot of off performances or would improvise to the point of throwing the orchestra off. I couldn’t tell you the name of those books because I read them so long ago but they sort of magical other accounts I have heard since then. Obviously they are hearsay and may or may not be true but even Streisand her self admitted that the routine routine 8 shows a week was not really her thing. She enjoyed funny girl the most when she was in the rehearsal. And the troublesome try out. We’re songs came and go with the quickness and the ending was rehearsing change many times. She like the edginess and felt more creative.

Russell Wright do you think its true that she got pregnant just to not have to keep doing funny girl?

Actually, this recording exists because of Barbra herself. She had the show recorded every night, then would listen to it for ways she could improve her performance. As she listened, she would make notes, then reuse the same tape the next night. It just so happens that this was her last night, so it never got erased.

Actually no. The practice of reproducing and distributing bootleg recordings from broadway shows was still decades in the future. There wasn't the easy means of replicating and distributing copies that there is now. So there wasn't the same vigilance around it. Also, decent recording equipment was cumbersome and not easily hidden in coats or bags, as it can be now. So this was more likely recorded backstage, with the full knowledge of the cast, as the comment above suggests.

@@Nacho-Mamma Well, so much for rumors. When she released "My Man" from her last performance of Funny Girl on Just For The Record, she claimed it was recorded by someone in the audience. Who knew?

Agreed.

Impossible choice. Two different performers in iconic roles.

Funny Girl was not as good a show as Hello, Dolly! which probably helped Channing and hurt Streisand.

This song was cut from the film version.

I've been burned.

I think she took liberties with this song and her incomparable musical instincts allowed her to take this song wherever she wanted to go only to bring it home to its incomprehensible end.

I’d have to agree. I just would’ve loved to seen an alternate ending with this

They could have used both songs. I would have cut "Swan Lake" and replace it with this song. And, at the end, she would stil sing "My Man". Maybe it would have been redundant but it would have been better than "Swan Lake". It's better to have 2 great similar numbers than one great number and a not-so-great one.

The story goes the rights to "My Man" were not available to the Broadway production so this song was created in its stead.

@@Ninafan68 There are least five (5!) songs from the Broadway show that were not in the film (wisely they cut out the 'chorus numbers'), but 'Coronet Man' was better than 'I'd Rather Be Blue' (also an old Brice song), and this was powerful in the play, but NOT the ending--which was a hopeful reprise of 'Don't Rain On My Parade'.

Rafael Storm But this song was written as an imitation of "My Man." Of course they went for the original when they could.

Why "of course"? This is, in fact, a better song.

Hello I prefer this song over "My Man" but I get why they used it in the film version. This recording is amazing not only does she seem actually choked but her improv near the end amazes!

On Broadway, it was implied that Fanny & Nick reunited at the end, that's why this song was written. In the movie, she is mourning the finality of her marriage to Nick, and that's why My Man was used. And also, the fact that My Man was written for her for the 1921 Ziegfeld Follies, in which she performed it and it became an instant hit. After that, My Man was Fanny's signature song.

One thread is that the film producers thought that this song was so difficult to sing, with the octave jumps, lyrics, etc, that My Man would be a better choice for its simpler melody and easy to remember lyrics. An easier theme song for a movie...if you will.

Its a soundboard copy

Funny girl was the first Broadway show that featured personal microphones for the main characters

Professional musician here, also....these bootleg recordings of Bway and opera are priceless now, so I don't mind it. Many performers who never had a recording career but who were brilliant onstage have been recorded for posterity. And more importantly, we get to hear what they did live, rather than in a studio recording where takes are spliced together and pitch corrected. For us theater/opera performers, studying live recordings is much more valuable as you hear what was done in real time with tempi that worked for the theater acoustics.

there's a recording of the entire last performance? Sign me up!!

Exactly!

They gave the Tony this year to Carol Channing for Hello Dolly also best musical and score.Barbra and Carol were nominated best actresses with Bea Arthur for High spirits and Inga Swenson for 110 in the shade only.four nominations although Barbara Cook should have been nomonated for She Loves Me Florence Henderson for The girl who came to supper and Carol Burnett for Fade Out fade in.Of these artists Barbara was who deserved more for her marveleus Amalia Balash in She loves me and nobody understood why she wasnt nominated. The final choice was between Barbra Streisand and Carol Channing and the later wan.But Barbra received an Oscar for her performance in the Funny Girl movie and.played Carol s role in The Hello Dolly movie . I think that Who are you now? and The Music that males me dance shouldnt have been cut in the movie. But they wanted a new song for the movie and Styne composed the song Funny Girl and they used a song Fanny Brice sang My Man in.the end..

alas he has died. she didn't even acknowledge this, nor the tremendous influence he had in shaping her approach to art

You got beans in your ears?

@unclealand Stopped growing as an actress? She did THE WAY WE WERE, YENTL, NUTS, and THE GUILT TRIP years after this. I hardly think she stopped growing & honing her craft, even if she never did get around to doing Shaw's or Shakespeare's CLEOPATRA. By the same token, Judi Dench and Maggie Smith never got around to doing THE BROADWAY ALBUM or GUILTY or half a dozen of the best time capsules of musical theatre music (i. e. 'specials,' which they absolutely WERE) on television...

Streisand told them.

Actually she would not have ‘residual’ rights to either the audio or film from the Broadway show. That would rest with the original producers.

mosshart21 ironic

Lea Michele can hone her vocals as much as she wants, but her performance is completely devoid of emotion.

@@hello_gorgeous_ i am not gonna said one is better then the other because I think they are very different. But to say Lea's version is devoid of emotion is simply false.

Get real