Hannah Shankman is stepping into the role of Fanny Brice on national Broadway tour Funny Girl. Was it always meant to be?

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Funny Girl’s Fanny Brice heads to Spokane.

Having recently been cast in the lead role of Fanny Brice in the nationally touring production of Funny Girl, which comes to Spokane this weekend as part of the Best of Broadway lineup, Hannah Shankman describes the experience in ways that you might expect: “thrilling,” “incredible” and “crazy.” But she also uses another, less common word that’s much more revealing: beschert.

Beschert is a Yiddish word that means “preordained” or “destined.” And for Shankman, there’s a sense that Fanny is

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