Editing Barbra Streisand (section)

==== Early theatre roles and Broadway debut ====
Streisand accepted her first role on the New York stage in ''Another Evening with Harry Stoones'', a satirical comedy play in which she acted and sang two solos. The show received terrible reviews and closed the next day. With the help of her new personal manager, [[Martin Erlichman]], she had successful shows in Detroit and St. Louis. Erlichman then booked her at an even more upscale nightclub in [[Manhattan]], the Blue Angel, where she became a bigger hit during the period from 1961 to 1962. Streisand once told [[Jimmy Fallon]], with whom she sang a duet,<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEa_deCZaNA "Jimmy Fallon and Barbra Streisand"], fair use clip {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312122355/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEa_deCZaNA|date=March 12, 2016}}</ref> on the ''[[The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon|Tonight Show]]'', that Erlichman was a "fantastic manager" and still managed her career after 50 years.<ref>video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY_LpxYuGg4&t=4m Barbra Streisand on the ''Tonight Show'', 2014]. fair use clip</ref>

While appearing at the Blue Angel, theater director and playwright [[Arthur Laurents]] asked her to audition for a new musical comedy he was directing, ''[[I Can Get It for You Wholesale]]''. She got the part of secretary to the lead actor businessman, played by then unknown [[Elliott Gould]].<ref name="Nickens" />{{rp|9}} They fell in love during rehearsals and eventually moved into a small apartment together. The show opened on March 22, 1962, at the [[Shubert Theatre (Broadway)|Shubert Theater]], and received rave reviews. Her performance "stopped the show cold", wrote Nickens.<ref name="Nickens" />{{rp|9}}<ref name="Nickens" />{{rp|10}} [[Groucho Marx]], while hosting the ''Tonight Show'', told her that 20 was an "extremely young age to be a success on Broadway".<ref>video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoAX-pgMHZI Barbra Streisand on ''The Tonight Show''], hosted by Groucho Marx, August 21, 1962 – fair use clip</ref> Streisand received a [[Tony Award]] nomination and New York Drama Critic's prize for Best Supporting Actress.<ref>video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bQ62sL8JtU Barbra Streisand on the ''Tonight Show'', hosted by Johnny Carson], October 4, 1962 – fair use clip</ref> The show was recorded and made into an album.<ref name="Nickens" />{{rp|10}}