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‘Funny Girl’ review: Beanie Feldstein’s Broadway show falls flat
25.04.2022 - 05:35 / nypost.com
Beanie Feldstein, who was a smash as Monica Lewinsky in “American Crime Story: Impeachment” last year, takes on the Brooklyn comic legend who sings classic hits like “People” and “Don’t Rain On My Parade.” She is supposed to steal our hearts and sprain our funny bones. No dice.Ticket-buyers are walking in forgivingly, with an understanding that we don’t expect any Broadway performer to match up to one of the greatest American vocalists of all time. Feldstein, however, barely muddles through the beloved songs.
The best performed numbers (“Sadie, Sadie”) are merely capable; the worst (“People”) are awkward letdowns. In the spoken scenes, the jokes are pushed harder than a broken-down Hummer on a highway and few of them earn more than polite giggles. Feldstein is, I’m sorry to say, not giving a Broadway-caliber performance.Fanny has nowhere to hide in “Funny Girl,” since it’s about as far from an ensemble piece as you can get without being a one-woman show.
There are only a handful of supporting characters, who do next to nothing. Just Jared Grimes brings a smile to our face as Eddie, a pal who pines for Fanny, with his marvelous tap dancing. Really, though, the musical is all about Fanny, and therefore all about Beanie.The biographical show with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Bob Merrill and a book by Isobel Lennart tells how Fanny went from a talented, under-appreciated Brooklyn dreamer with a nagging mother (Jane Lynch, adequate) to starring in the Ziegfeld Follies and then to international fame.
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