Lea Michele will be celebrating her 36th birthday on Monday and the cast and crew of Funny Girl helped ring in the occasion a few days early!
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Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterJane Lynch will leave the Broadway revival of “Funny Girl” on Aug. 14, ending her run as Mrs. Brice about three weeks earlier than expected.Lynch was initially scheduled to leave the show on Sept.
5, but travel complicated those plans. According to producers, she had a long-scheduled vacation set to begin on Monday, Aug. 15 with plans to return to the stage on Tuesday, Aug.
23 before traveling to Los Angeles for the Emmys on Thursday, Sept. 1. But rather than return for one week of performances, Lynch arranged to adjust the date of her final show over the weekend.Liz McCarthney, who is the standby for Mrs.
Brice, will assume the role from Tuesday, Aug. 16 through Sunday, Sept. 4 at the August Wilson Theatre.
Tovah Feldshuh, a Tony-winner for “Yentl,” will star as Fanny Brice’s mother beginning Tuesday, Sept. 6. “With my long-planned vacation on the books and then the Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony in L.A.
on Thursday, Sept. 1, I will take my final curtain call on Aug. 14,” Lynch said in a statement.
“As I embark upon my last week in ‘Funny Girl,’ my heart is filled with gratitude for this wildly talented company led by Beanie Feldstein and our wonderful audiences for keeping theater alive! I offer a special thanks to my current scene partner Julie Benko and will be back to see my friend Lea Michele light up the lights.”As previously announced, Lea Michele is replacing Beanie Feldstein as Fanny Brice starting on Sept. 6. Standby Julie Benko is currently starring in the title role through Sunday, Sept.
4. She will play Fanny Brice on Thursday performances beginning on Sept. 8.They are joined by Ramin Karimloo as Nick Arnstein, Jared Grimes as Eddie Ryan and Peter Francis James as
.Lea Michele will be celebrating her 36th birthday on Monday and the cast and crew of Funny Girl helped ring in the occasion a few days early!
Producers offered a first look today at Lea Michele rehearsing the role of Fanny Brice for the current Broadway production of Funny Girl.
Lea Michele as Fanny Brice. On Friday, the Twitter account for Broadway's shared a promo of Michele embodying the iconic role, which she's stepping into after Beanie Feldstein's shortened run. In the promo, Michele sings a portion of «I'm the Greatest Star,» as footage rolls of her at rehearsals for the show. Michele dances, looks over her script, practices her blocking, and chats with her castmates in the video.«Who is the pip with pizazz? / Who is all ginger and jazz? / Who is as glamorous as? / Who's an American Beauty rose With an American Beauty nose / And ten American Beauty toes,» Michele sings as the footage plays, before the camera turns to the actress herself as she belts out the final line.«Hey, Mr.
Lea Michele is Broadway bound, and a new video features our first look at the “Glee” alum as Fanny Brice in “Funny Girl”.
The first promo video for Lea Michele‘s run in Funny Girl has been released!
Ellise Shafer Hey Mr. Ziegfeld, here she is.On Friday, Broadway’s “Funny Girl” officially revealed the first footage of Lea Michele as lead Fanny Brice.
Lea Michele took a break from rehearsing for her upcoming Broadway return in Funny Girl to hand out some cosmetics to fans.
Lea Michele is giving fans a look at her take on the beloved character Fanny Brice.The singer and alum took to her Instagram story on Sunday to share a behind-the-scenes snapshot showing her and the cast belting out «Don’t Rain On My Parade» while rehearsing for her forthcoming run on the Broadway revival of “The incredible @ephieaardema got a photo of me singing Don’t Rain On My Parade on a Broadway stage for the first time ever today," Michele captioned the post, and tagging understudy Ephie Aardema. “@ephieaardema you are amazing I [love] you!!!«Lea Michele shares a photo of herself singing “Don’t Rain On My Parade” for the very first time on the Broadway stage of 'Funny Girl.' pic.twitter.com/6cbgyMGSXPIt was announced in July that Lea Michele has been cast to take over for Beanie Feldstein, who left the Broadway revival of two months early.Michele, who previously starred in the original cast of , is expected to formally take over the role starting Sept.
Lea Michele is giving fans a look at her take on the beloved character Fanny Brice.The singer and alum took to her Instagram story on Sunday to share a behind-the-scenes snapshot showing her and the cast belting out «Don’t Rain On My Parade» while rehearsing for her forthcoming run on the Broadway revival of “The incredible @ephieaardema got a photo of me singing Don’t Rain On My Parade on a Broadway stage for the first time ever today," Michele captioned the post, and tagging understudy Ephie Aardema. “@ephieaardema you are amazing I [love] you!!!«Lea Michele shares a photo of herself singing “Don’t Rain On My Parade” for the very first time on the Broadway stage of 'Funny Girl.' pic.twitter.com/6cbgyMGSXPIt was announced in July that Lea Michele has been cast to take over for Beanie Feldstein, who left the Broadway revival of two months early.Michele, who previously starred in the original cast of , is expected to formally take over the role starting Sept.
Sarah Paulson is close friends with Beanie Feldstein and she was just asked to comment on the drama surrounding her exit from the Broadway revival of Funny Girl.
Casting drama is not the reason Jane Lynch is leaving the Broadway production of Funny Girl early.
Jane Lynch is opening up about her early Funny Girl exit.
Jane Lynch will depart Broadway’s Funny Girl even earlier than expected, producers announced today. The former Glee actor will end her run as “Mrs. Brice” on Sunday, August 14, several weeks earlier than the Sept. 4 date most recently announced (that date, too, was earlier than the originally planned Sept. 25 exit).
Jane Lynch is departing Funny Girl on Broadway earlier than anticipated.
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