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While BottleRock takes over this week, something ‘Funny’ opens at the Opera House BY DAVID TEMPLETON
his is a role I’ve dreamed of playing my entire life,” says actress Taylor Bartolucci of Napa, describing her lifelong goal of playing Fanny Brice in the 1964 musical Funny Girl. “When I was a little girl,” reveals
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a two-week run of Funny Girl at the Napa Opera House. It’s Lucky Penny’s most ambitious and costly production since its inception in 2009, and its most high-profile effort since becoming a nonprofit in 2011. “It’s a little scary to me,” Bartolucci says, “because the show is very different from the Streisand movie, which everyone ) 10
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