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Let's Get This Shaw on the Road
Funny Girl: Sara Farb & Eda Holmes in Conversation
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How do you approach an iconic mega-musical when its original star casts such a massive shadow? Director Eda Holmes and actor Sara Farb join us to talk about pulling Funny Girl out of the history books and staging it with the freshness and urgency of a brand-new piece of theatre.
They share what it’s like to navigate the complex, bittersweet arc of Fanny Brice’s meteoric rise and turbulent personal life, the incredible collaborative energy pulsing through the rehearsal room, and what it takes to guide an enormous cast through such a devastatingly beautiful love story.
Sara Farb makes her Shaw Festival debut this season as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl and in The Wind in the Willows. Her extensive career includes playing Delphi Diggory in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on Broadway and in Toronto, as well as seven seasons at the Stratford Festival with roles such as Rosalind, Juliet, and Cordelia. An accomplished writer, Sara co-created the Dora-nominated original musical Kelly v. Kelly, and her original plays Way Out There and Love Us Most will both premiere later this year.
Eda Holmes returns to the Shaw Festival to direct Funny Girl, adding to an extensive list of past Shaw credits that includes The Apple Cart, Grand Hotel, Arcadia, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Floyd Collins. She is the Artistic Director of Montreal's Centaur Theatre and has directed award-winning productions for companies across Canada, including Buddies in Bad Times and Neptune Theatre. A graduate of the National Theatre School's Directing Program, Eda also enjoyed a distinguished international career as a professional ballet dancer with companies such as the San Francisco Ballet and Frankfurt Ballet.
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