18 May 1984: The Sheffield born star ignored anti-apartheid campaigners to perform in South Africa
Of course,it was irresistible casting. Marti Caine, popular gritty Sheffield folk heroine, or as Fanny Brice - the laughable Girl battling her way out of the Lower East Side sleaze,to stardom in the Ziegfeld Follies. “Her rise to stardom being impaired only by her disastrous private life,” as the Crucible press release has it.
Caine (who shot to fame when she won New Faces in 1975) had a father who died when she was seven; a mother who gave her to the local authorities when she was nine and committed suicide when Caine retraced her; a husband she married at 17, or lost to her best friend when at last everything seemed to be going fine. With Caine’s special flair for musical comedy,and this uniquely depressing background… how could anybody be better equipped to win on Fanny Brice?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com