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He starred in the Ziegfeld Follies with Fanny Brice and Josephine Baker in the 1930s, traveled the Vaudeville circuit as one half of a dancing team, and made more than 60 movies, including seven Road pictures with his pal Bing Crosby.

Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire rehearsing a number for The Ziegfeld Follies . They are thesis and antithesis.

Close your eyes and picture Fanny Brice, star of vaudeville, radio and the Ziegfeld Follies.

Published: Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 12:02 p.m. There are just two things you need to know when you buy your ticket to see the Gainesville Community Playhouse's production of the musical "Singin' in the Rain" at the Vam York Theater.

Welcome to the next installment of my ongoing series of articles about the Broadway Musical.

For the past 12 years, Beloit College has produced an annual list of things we take for granted but which are alien to incoming college freshmen.

Fanny Brice hams it up during a recording for her radio comedy series The Baby Snooks Show in the 1940s © Getty Images In 1964, Ray Stark had a problem.

Lyric Stage's funny girl, Kristin Dausch, gives a break-out performance as Fanny Brice.

There are some shows that, given the star-creating original performances of entertainment icons, are rarely attempted at a local or regional level.

"I'm the greatest star. I am by far ... but no one knows it." Those are almost the first words the character Fanny Brice sings in Funny Girl , the musical based on the life of the great Ziegfeld Follies headliner.

Offensive to the smell or other senses; disgusting. Noisome is from Middle English noysome, from noy, "harm," short for anoy, from Old French, from anoier, "to annoy." You lie! The classiest way to respond to anyone you disagree with.

The citizens of Abbeville, a county seated just 60 miles north of Aiken, built their opera house in 1908 primarily to accommodate touring companies because one of the most popular circuits began in New York City, continued through Richmond, Va., and ended in Atlanta.

Several times during the performance of "Funny Girl" you could close your eyes and swear the acclaimed actress Barbra Streisand had come to Sullivan to sing her signature songs from the movie that won her an Academy Award.

ReVision Theatre presents a star studded cast featuring Steven Brinberg as Barbra Streisand with special guest Lainie Kazan in a benefit performance of Funny Girl.

For most of her life, Lena Horne has been a very angry woman. She may have given as good as she got for many of her 92 years, but as related in James Gavin's definitive new biography, she had reason enough.

Image courtesy of Dr. David Soren. During Tucson's summertime lull, mental stimulation can be just as valuable as well-deserved relaxation and leisure time.

It will run 123 performances. 1921 Birthday of Joe Papp , founder and longtime executive director of the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theatre.

For decades, Lena Horne has been an emblem of the complicated equation of race and talent.

Many years ago I heard on the radio a song about a deck of cards. I've searched, to no avail.