On the Town with Chip Deffaa: On Fanny Brice and "Funny Girl"
I've often told friends what an impact "Funny Girl" had on me. That was the show that made me fall completely, utterly, and permanently in love with Broadway. I was a teenager when I saw it"not quite 15. I started taking  odd jobs to make some extra money; I stopped buying comic books;  I began skipping school lunches, too"I was trying to save every possible penny so I could  buy Broadway the…