Fanny Brice rose from humble origins to become America's highest-paid singing comedienne--a star in the Ziegfeld Follies and on radio's long-running "Baby Snooks Show." ASCAP award-winner Chip Deffaa has written and arranged the lively two-act musical comedy "Presenting Fanny Brice" (published and licensed by Eldridge Plays). This new cast recording features many of the songs Brice introduced or popularized.

The cast includes Emily Bordonaro, Michael Townsend Wright, K. F. Greenberg, Keith Anderson, T. D. DuBoys, Alex Tocco, Gregory Wagner, Allie S. McKay, and more, with music direction by Richard Danley. Through some two-dozen songs, this colorful musical traces Brice's rise from poverty to burlesque, and then Broadway and beyond... along with her romance to smooth-talking confidence-man Nicky Arnstein.

The songs--including "My Man," "Ballin' the Jack," "Rose of Washington Square," "I'm Sorry I Made You Cry," "The Sheik of Araby," "Singin' the Blues," "The Sheik of Avenue B," "Won't You C