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ABOUT THE SHOW:<br />2019 MAC Award (female vocalist) and 2017 Margaret Whiting Award Winner, Josephine Sanges, celebrates the legacy of Fanny Brice by recalling her own experience playing the leading role in the 1995 Diocesan Theater Guild production of FUNNY GIRL. She puts her own personal stamp on songs from both FUNNY GIRL and FUNNY LADY as well reinvigorating a few of Fanny’s original, trademark songs from the Ziegfeld Follies and Hollywood films.<br /><br />Music Director John M. Cook is an acclaimed arranger, pianist and musical director, and the co-producer of Josephine Sanges’ LaMott/Friedman Award winning album “Finding Beauty: a Celebration of the Music of Ann Hampton Callaway.”<br /><br />Director Jeff Harnar is a Broadway World, MAC and Bistro Award winning director who has directed critically acclaimed shows for Tovah Feldshuh and Rita Gardner, among many others, and “Come Rain or Come Shine: Josephine Sanges sings Harold Arlen.”<br /><br />“…one of the best, most seamlessly crafted and executed tribute shows this writer has ever seen.” Stephen Mosher-Broadway World<br />Review: https://www.broadwayworld.com/cabaret/article/BWW-Review-Triumphant-THE-FUNNY-GIRL-IN-ME-JOSEPHINE-SANGES-SINGS-FANNY-BRICE-Debuts-at-The-Laurie-Beechman-Theatre-20220507