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The 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women
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After countless alterations, a revolving door of writers and directors (which included Jerome Robbins, Bob Fosse, Sidney Lumet, and Garson Kanin), crazed tryouts, and an opening night that was delayed five times, Funny Girl turned out to be an unadulterated smash--and it still sounds great this much further on. Composer Jule Styne, at the peak of his brassy powers, custom-fitted the show to its star, Barbra Streisand, and she ran away with it. Streisand's delivery of "People" still sends a chill down the spine, and she completely radiates with the life-force of someone who's a star and knows it. Funny Girl is a d
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Manufacturer: Angel Records
Release date: 17 November 1992
EAN: 0077776466125 UPC: 077776466125
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Release date: 17 November 1992
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The 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women (150 music items)"Any number of doors — the blues, gospel, r&b, country, rap, rock and roll, even opera — can lead to pop music. Barbra Streisand entered via Broadway. While ambivalent about a pop career in the early 1960s, Streisand nevertheless sang at New York City nightclubs before landing her first Broadway theater role. Her second job, as the 1920s comedy star Fanny Brice in the musical Funny Girl, changed popular culture, launching Streisand to super stardom as both a vocalist and actor. "She threw her"
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