Funny Girl (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

For the 2022 Broadway revival cast recording, see Funny Girl (New Broadway Cast Recording).
Funny Girl
(Original Broadway Cast Recording)
Cast recording by
Barbra Streisand / various artists
ReleasedApril 1964
RecordedApril 5, 1964
GenrePop
Length50:14
LabelCapitol
ProducerDick Jones
Barbra Streisand chronology
The Third Album
(1964) 		Funny Girl
(Original Broadway Cast Recording)
(1964) 		People
(1964)
Singles from Funny Girl (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
  1. "People"
    Released: January 1964
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Record Mirror[2]

Funny Girl is the original Broadway cast recording of the musical of the same name, starring Barbra Streisand. The Funny Girl cast album peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 in June 1964,[3] selling 250,000 copies by the following month.[4] The recording went on to beat Fiddler on the Roof and Hello, Dolly! to win the Grammy for Best Original Cast Show Album.

  1. ^ Funny Girl (Original Broadway Cast Recording) – Review AllMusic. Retrieved July 22, 2017
  2. ^ Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (14 May 1966). "Barbra Streisand, Sydney Chaplin: Funny Girl (Original Broadway Cast)" (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 270. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  3. ^ "Funny Girl (Original Broadway Cast Recording)", retrieved July 22, 2017
  4. ^ 'Girl' caster goes up, up. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 11 July 1964. Retrieved October 5, 2021.