The American Century Theater to Feature The Real Fanny Brice Play

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(press release distribution) Fanny Bryce is one of the most influential women on her era. She is one American woman that started her career and made all the way to famous Broadway. She was known for her talented act as a film star as well a comedian. Her worked was thought to be one of the best as she was not also the creator but also the star of the top-rated radio comedy series, The Baby Snooks Show. Her life as well as her success story has inspired many others far beyond her time. And after thirteen years since her death, at exactly the year of 1968, her life was portrayed on the film which called Funny Girl.

The American Century Theater wants to set the record straight about turn-of-the-century songstress Fanny Brice, counteracting all inaccurate portraits of Brice, especially in Barbra Streisand’s Broadway show and movie “Funny Girl.” Claiming that their Fanny is the real Fanny, ACT employs a script by Chip Deffaa and the talents of actress/singer Esther Covington to explore the life and times of Brice through narrative and song.

Deffaa’s script neatly describes that age, including many details about Fanny’s life, making her rags-to-riches story very credible. Deffaa tells Brice’s story in chronological order, beginning with Fanny singing for her father, whom she adored, then singing on the street with one of her brothers, picking up coins thrown by appreciative passers-by, then singing onstage with her brother, again for coins, until she got a paying job in a burlesque revue.

One of the nicest elements of “One Night With Fanny Brice” is the way Deffaa brings Fanny’s historical contemporaries to life: Flo Ziegfeld, Eddie Cantor, Gypsy Rose Lee, Billy Rose, W.C. Fields, Al Jolson and all the lowlifes associated with Nicky Arnstein, Fanny’s one true love. Deffaa also emphasizes Brice’s abilities as a comedian, allowing her to sing some funny songs, like Irving Berlin’s “Grizzly Bear,” and to re-create some of the curious characters who peopled her life.

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