FUNNY GIRL

Composer: Jule Styne
Lyricist: Bob Merrill

Opened: March 26, 1964, Winter Garden Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 1348

Note: Only numbers not found on the original Broadway cast album and the soundtrack are noted below.

Absent Minded Me (cut):

1. 45/Columbia (M) 4-43127 (Barbra Streisand with orchestra conducted by Peter Matz) [also issued on stereo on People, Columbia (S) CS-9015; reissued as CD/Sony 86103]
2. Sophisticated Lady, Liberty (S) ST-7203 (Julie London) (M: Bob Merrill) [reissued as Sophisticated Lady/For The Night People, CD/EMI 94992]
3. Simply Styne, CD/DRG 91506 (Karen Akers with music direction by Don Rebic)


Baltimore Sun (unused):

1. Composer Demo (Jule Styne and Bob Merrill)


Bows:

1. Funny Girl, CD/Decca 4793670 (orchestra with musical direction by Alan Williams)


Do Puppies Go To Heaven? (unused):

1. Composer Demo (Jule Styne and Bob Merrill)


Finale:

1. Composer Demo (Jule Styne and Bob Merrill)
2. Funny Girl, CD/Decca 4793670 (Sheridan Smith with musical direction by Alan Williams)


Funny Girl (unused; different than film title song; reinstated in the 2016 London production):

1. 45/Columbia (M) 4-43127 (Barbra Streisand with orchestra conducted by Peter Matz) [also issued in stereo on The Head-Liners '65, Columbia Record Club (S) DS-80]
2. Lost Broadway And Moore Volume 5: Comden/Green/Styne, CD/Original Cast (Leslie Kritzer with Michael Lavine, piano)
3. Funny Girl, CD/Decca 4793670 (Sheridan Smith with musical direction by Alan Williams)


He (unused):

1. Composer Demo (Jule Styne and Bob Merrill)


He's Got Larceny In His Heart (unused):

1. Composer Demo (Jule Styne and Bob Merrill)


I Did It On Roller Skates (unused):

1. Composer Demo (Jule Styne and Bob Merrill)
2. Lost Broadway And Moore Volume 5: Comden/Green/Styne, CD/Original Cast (Christine Pedi with Michael Lavine, piano)


Individual Thing (cut; subsequently used in PRETTYBELLE):

1. Prettybelle, Original Cast 8238 (Peter Lombard with orchestra conducted by Milton Rosenstock) [reissued as CD/Varese Sarabande VSD-5439]
2. Prettybelle Commercial Demo, CRP (S) 1001 (Peter Allen)
3. Love Story, Columbia (S) C 30558 (Tony Bennett with orchestra conducted by Torrie Zito)


It's Home (cut):

1. Composer Demo (Jule Styne and Bob Merrill)


Locked In A Pink Velvet Jail (written for but cut from the film version):

1. Selections From The Columbia Picture 'Funny Girl," Private label DC42268 (Omar Sharif with orchestra conducted by Walter Scharf)


My Daughter Fanny The Star (unused):

1. Composer Demo (Jule Styne and Bob Merrill)


Racing Form Lullaby (unused):

1. Composer Demo (Jule Styne and Bob Merrill)


A Temporary Arrangement (cut; reinstated for the 2016 London production):

1. Composer Demo (Jule Styne) [reissued on Freedomland U.S.A., CD/Sepia 1291]
2. Commercial Demo, Private LP (M) AR-12763 (unknown singer) [also found on The Unknown Theatre Songs Of Jule Styne, Blue Pear BP 1011]
3. Lost Broadway And Moore Volume 5: Comden/Green/Styne, CD/Original Cast (John Jeffrey Martin with Michael Lavine, piano)
4. Funny Girl, CD/Decca 4793670 (Darius Campbell, Philip Bertioli, Luke Fetherston, and Matthew Goodgame with musical direction by Alan Williams)


What Do Happy People Do? (used in the 2016 London production):

1. Funny Girl, CD/Decca 4793670 (Sheridan Smith and Company with musical direction by Alan Williams)

Unrecorded Numbers:

Downtown Rag (cut; reinstated for National Tour as "Rehearsal (Downtown Rag)")
Eddie's Fifth Encore (cut)
A Helluva Group (cut)
Home (cut)
I Tried (unused)
Nicky Arnstein (ASCAP/Library of Congress only)
Poker Chant
Sleep Now, Baby Bunting (cut)
Something About Me (cut)
Took Me A Little Time (cut)
When I Talk About You (unused)

Note: I have not attempted to provide discological information for the well-known standard "Second Hand Rose" (M: James Hanley; L: Grant Clarke), which was interpolated into the film score although omitted from the soundtrack.