Funny Girl at Orpheum Theatre San Francisco

Funny Girl is based on incidents in the life of Ziegfeld Follies leading lady, Fanny Brice shortly before, during and after World War I and chronicles her rise from being an delicate, unattractive, stage-struck teenager to national stardom. Her tale begins with her young days in New York's Lower East Side, where the young girl goofs her way through burlesque and vaudeville, dreaming of making it big despite being put down by her friends and family, who tell her she isn't star material enough for the stage. Additionally, it covers the story of her love for and subsequent failed marriage to Nick Arnstein, a handsome, man about town whose allure Fanny finds seductive. The musical is full of the unsurpassed music that anyone would come to expect from a show of this quality and included are several show-stopping numbers such as "People" and "Don't Let It Rain on My Parade". Since everyone wants to watch this one, tickets are quick becoming unavailable, so be sure to purchase your tickets before it is too late and somebody else gets what is meant to be yours.