This perfectly illustrates something I and lots of others have often said- Funny Girl didn’t make Barbra, Barbra made Funny Girl. Without her this is what it can become.
Ms. Perryman performance actually reminded me a lot to the fanny brice, so i think she is on point, but still no one can beat the Ms. Streisand in this role
Streisand managed to be funny, sexy, vulnerable, calculating and charismatic in this scene - none of which Perryman manages. BS also managed to make the sometimes contrived, at times clunky dialogue seem utterly natural and believable. By contrast Perryman is entirely without charm and even manages to kill most of the jokes. It's astonishing that she had a reasonably long and successful theatre career, partly on the strength of this starring role.
Ms. Perryman’s performance is painful to see and hear - she plays the role as if she were a cut-rate version of Carol Burnett mugging through a satiric sketch on her old TV variety show. This can’t possibly be all Ms. Perryman’s fault; the Australian production’s director deserves much of the blame.
SO WRONG...Barbra got it right for so many reasons ..One o which is understanding that this is a love story & needs heat displayed. This is more broad Betty Hutton than Fanny Brice.He's on the right track Shes all wrong imo
Bruce Barry is wonderful here. As for Perryman...well, she looks too old and sounds way too loud and brassy to be Fanny, who was actually subdued and serious offstage (as Streisand is in the film version of this scene).