Sheridan Smith's Funny Girl is a masterclass in musical comedy
As the Broadway star Fanny Brice, famously played by Barbra Streisand, Smith draws cheers, tears and gets a laugh out of every single lineIn the queue for the ladies at the Savoy theatre, several older women are wistfully talking of Barbra and how irreplaceable she is. I have to admit I haven't seen the iconic Streisand film but in the stage version of Funny Girl, which is back in the West End for the first time in 5…