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Funny Girl [Original Soundtrack]
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Funny Girl [Original Soundtrack]
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Funny Girl [Original Soundtrack]
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The film adaptation of the Broadway
arrived in theaters four years after the show had opened, again starring
, but much had changed in the interim, and that's reflected in the
album. While the stage show had been dominated by
, there had still been room for character songs performed by other people, and the cast album contained 15 different numbers, all written by
and
. For the film, eight of those songs were dropped, replaced by three new
-
numbers and two period tunes, one of them the torch song
which was associated with
star
, of whom the film was nominally a biography. There were still a few moments for secondary characters to burst into song, notably the comic
and a verse of
for co-star
(who proved to have an adequate conversational tenor). But the movie version of
was even more of a showcase for
than the stage production had been. She responded with a more mannered performance than the one she had given on the cast album, broader and full of spoken interjections. In part, that was necessary -- when you're singing
from a tugboat in New York harbor, you'd better oversing just to keep up with the production values. But the third time around with it (including the hit single rendition), she loaded
with vocal effects that bordered on self-parody. With a full movie orchestra, this version of the score is generally bigger and glossier, and
holds her own and then some. But the result is that this drastically revised rendering of the score is less successful than the previous one. ~ William Ruhlmann