Funny Girl (film) - Musical Numbers

Musical Numbers

  1. "Overture"
  2. "If a Girl Isn't Pretty" - Fanny, Rose, Mrs. Strakosh
  3. "I'm the Greatest Star" - Fanny
  4. "Rollerskate Rag" - Fanny, Rollerskate Girls
  5. "I'd Rather Be Blue Over You (Than Happy With Somebody Else)" - Fanny
  6. "Second Hand Rose" - Fanny
  7. "His Love Makes Me Beautiful" - Fanny, Follies Ensemble
  8. "People" - Fanny
  9. "You Are Woman, I Am Man" - Nick, Fanny
  10. "Don't Rain on My Parade" - Fanny
  11. "Entr'acte"
  12. "Sadie, Sadie" - Fanny, Nick
  13. "The Swan" - Fanny
  14. "Funny Girl" - Fanny
  15. "My Man" - Fanny
  16. "Exit Music"

In the 1985 book Barbra Streisand: The Woman, the Myth, the Music by Shaun Considine, composer Jule Styne revealed he was unhappy with the orchestrations for the film. "They were going for pop arrangements," he recalled. "They dropped eight songs from the Broadway show and we were asked to write some new ones. They didn’t want to go with success. It was the old-fashioned MGM Hollywood way of doing a musical. They always change things to their way of vision, and they always do it wrong. But, of all my musicals they screwed up, Funny Girl came out the best."

Because the songs "My Man," "Second Hand Rose," and "I’d Rather Be Blue" frequently were performed by the real Brice during her career, they were interpolated into the Styne-Merrill score.

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