After news broke that Funny Girl would return
to Broadway and that Beanie Feldstein [left]—who played Monica Lewinsky in Impeachment: American
Crime Story—will star as Fanny Brice, one former Glee star, Lea
Michele [right] , was said to be devastated.
You see, Ryan Murphy, who produced Glee and, ironically, Impeachment: American Crime Story, wanted to buy the
rights to Funny Girl for Michele, but his deal fell through, and the new
producing team probably heard stories about Michele’s horrible reputation and
went with Feldstein, after which Lea, trying to save her already horrid
reputation, rather than sh*tting in Feldstein’s ‘Monica’ beret—something she wanted
to do to a Glee extra—Michele replied to Beanie’s Instagram post about
her new gig:
“Yes! YOU are the greatest star! This is going to be epic!”
Actually, my guess is that Lea had someone else type that
while she was screaming and tearing her hair out. Anyway, more time has passed
and Lea wants y’all to know that she is
still super happy about Beanie getting the role; it’s fine, y’all,
really. And we know this because Lea said so in a podcast:
“There’s been so much talk about me coming to Broadway—and
not coming to Broadway! Listen, I am so unbelievably excited to see Funny Girl
on Broadway. I cannot wait. I had drinks with [director] Michael [Mayer] the
other day, and I just think that Beanie is an incredible choice for the
production, and I think it’s going to be so wonderful. I can’t wait to see Jane
[Lynch] in it as well. I think that a lot of people always put me in the lane
with Funny Girl because, of course, I love the show and the music.
But I did get to do a lot of it on Glee.”
Wow, the thirst is real; first she does “drinks” with the
director, and then of course mentions how many people thought she should play
Fanny and how many times she’s sung the role. And then she adds:
“There were so many shows and so many roles that I would
love to play, and I’m so grateful that Broadway is back now. But for me to come
back to Broadway… Maybe I am coming
back to Broadway!”
If I were Beanie I’d be looking for marbles on the stairs or
baby oil drizzled on the stage because Lea is coming to Broadway … though she’ll
need a ticket.
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