Funny Face

San Francisco’s award-winning “lost musical” company, 42nd Street Moon, opens its eighth annual season with George and Ira Gershwin’s Funny Face, a beautiful romantic gem from 1927. The rights to this show have not been released for more than 20 years, and 42nd Street Moon will be performing with special permission from the Gershwin estate.
The story is a light-hearted fare, and highly typical of the musicals of its time: featuring a young ingenue Frankie, whose wildly imaginative diary causes trouble for her long-suffering guardian when it is stolen in a jewelry robbery.