Broadway's' "Funny Girl" to Lea Michele: "GO TO HELL!!!"

I'm kind of shocked they went with.... this.

Lea Michele would have been much more flattering (physically) to Barbra Streisand, than this person.

[...]

[quote] she had a Funny Girl–themed party when she was 3 years old

Boy, they’re really laying it on thick.

BF is short and heavy....Brice was tall and thin....how can she play her convincingly ?

Here, R2.

And another, R2.

Why another thread on this fat cunt?

And just one more for you, R2.

Anything to keep the part away from her.

Lea must have understood that with her reputation in the toilet, she had no chance of playing this role. But now she's doing damage control.

I can't nepotist brat Beanie or cunt Lea. But, I think cunt Lea would have been better.

R11 A pile of shit would be better, and thinner than Beanie.

R12 = Mean Girl Lea Michele.

R2 she's an entitled witch who's only accomplishment is she sounds good under the guise of auto tune.

Poor Lea.

It looks like she's permanently PUNISHED.

If Beanie has been wanting to be in showbiz since she was wee, why did she let herself get so fat?

Someone should buy Lea a beanie with a propeller on it. That would be funny, girl.

[quote] If Beanie has been wanting to be in showbiz since she was wee, why did she let herself get so fat?

There have been fat people in show business for years: Jackie Gleason, Tessie O'Shea, William Frawley, Totie Fields, Carroll O'Connor, Fred "Rerun" Berry, Nell Carter, John Candy, Oprah Winfrey, Larry Mondello from [italic]Leave it to Beaver[/italic], and now Chrissy Metz who outweighs her by at least a metric ton. Even Walt Disney packed on the pounds in his later years when he was doing his Sunday night TV show.

R18 Did any of those fatties play Fanny Brice?

Did you, R19, aka the poster child for anorexia nervosa? Go barf some more chow with Kimberly Drummond, flagpole!

R20 Oh, you really are a fatty Mcfat fuck, aren't you? Fanny Brice was tiny. It looks like Beanie ate her.

Closes in six months.

I hope this revival closes in previews and loses a ton of money.

R23 = Bitter Lea.

Either that, or her little minion Jonathan whatshisface.

Look, I found R21:

Body positive casting will be the death of the Broadway. No one wants to pay $400 to see a bunch of fat asses.

Wonder who's flicking Beanie's bean?

[quote]Body positive casting will be the death of the Broadway. No one wants to pay $400 to see a bunch of fat asses.

That comes out to about a dollar a pound in this case.

Quite a few broadway performers have packed on Covid weight. They don’t give a fuck because they know they can’t get fired over it. Seamstresses will be busy letting out those fishnet leotards and spandex tuxedo pants over at Chicago.

[quote] Body positive casting will be the death of the Broadway. No one wants to pay $400 to see a bunch of fat asses.

They pay even more than that to hear the same shitty pseudomusic you can hear blasted out of cars in ghettos for free.

Love Leah or hate her,but theres no denying she absolutely killed Dont Rain on My Parade on Glee. She would be perfect as Fanny Brice.

Beanie's a bit of a mean girl herself. She tormented a colleague of mine when they were in school together.

r27 probably not Lea

r32 do go on

[quote] Beanie's a bit of a mean girl herself. She tormented a colleague of mine when they were in school together.

How, by sitting on her?

I would have agreed a decade ago that racist cunt terrors Leah would have been perfect as Fanny, but I noticed a few years ago that she simply can't sing live without autotune and that is just fucking tragic.

terror*

There is a very small space for fat Jewish girls in showbiz. It seems stupid to limit yourself to that niche. (I just remembered the Melissa Beth Miller threads!)

I guess, why not? Ricki Lake, Kathy Najimy, Melissa McCarthy.

Melissa McCarthy is Jewish? Huh?

R39, nope. More room for me!

OP, your thread title made me laugh. Thanks!

[quote] There is a very small space for fat Jewish girls in showbiz. It seems stupid to limit yourself to that niche.

[quote] I guess, why not? Ricki Lake, Kathy Najimy, Melissa McCarthy.

Don't forget me!!!

Is Nikki Blonsky really a lesbian now?

What am I, chopped liver?

I don't care that Beanie Feldstein is a tub so much as I care that there's nothing New York or Jewish about her, a major part of the character. And she sings pretty well, nothing special. There must be something we don't know about that made them hire her. This is a big production that'll cost $$$.

Nikki Blonsky auditioned for the part, but they thought she didn't have the right "look."

Never watched Glee. Can understand why she's disliked from posts above, but honestly I'd rather watch Lea Michele in the role than Beany. You need a Diva for the role and somebody who can actually sing. Not merely nice and adequate.

[quote]"The first time I played Fanny Brice was at my third birthday party, in a head-to-toe leopard print outfit my mom made for me," Feldstein said in a release last week.

They flew down to Georgia Tent and Awning for the fabric.

Wow.

That video at R5 says it ALL about Lea Michele.

No wonder she can't get hired now.

Who in the hell would want to work with someone like that??

Beanie Feldstein is less talented than her untalented brother. Gross.

Funny Girl would have fared better as a limited run at the Roundabout. Expecting it to have a long commercial and financially successful run is foolish.

I don't like Lea Michele but I predict she will have the last laugh on this.

Will Lens be matinee Franny?

Leah Michele will be 35 in two weeks. Streisand was 22 when she appeared in the role on Broadway.

And 105 pounds.

[quote]Leah Michele will be 35 in two weeks.

Fortunately, theater isn't in HiDef.

LOL

R54, Streisand may have been 22, but she looked like 42, like in this video.

Here's Lea singing "My Man" in a Tribute to Barbra Streisand, with Streisand in the audience.

And Lea does an EXACT COPY of Streisand's vocal, down to the "eva" instead of ever. I like it, but she'll never be a star outside of Glee if she's merely an imitation of someone else.

She looks like a dark haired version of Elisabeth Moss. No, not a compliment.

I've got thirty-shix exshpresshionsh--shweet ash pie to tough ash leather.

[quote] I don't like Lea Michele but I predict she will have the last laugh on this.

Yeah, as soon as she finds the Triangle of Zinthar.

Lea Michele might be in her 30s but Beanie Feldmanstein looks like she's in her 50s.

Not only is she too fat for the role, she looks like someone's old aunt who should be playing Mrs. Brice in a community theater production of Funny Girl in some tragic suburb outside Cleveland.

Beanie Feldmanstein is fine for act I, but not for act II. We are supposed to believe that Nicky married Fanny because he loves her *and* she has money. With Beanie, it will be, "He married the fat girl for her money. There was never any love there."

Michael Mayer was doing woke before there was woke. I suspect this will be as successful as his disastrous On a Clear Day...

I'm worried about her weight.

I can’t believe Beanie is playing Monica Lewinsky let alone Fanny Brice. Monica is quite pretty and shapely. Beanie is round with, I’m sorry, a piggy face.

She could do something surprising and performance enhancing. She could lose weight specifically for this production. Her best friend Ben Platt did it for the movie, Dear Evan Hansen. He lost 15 pounds so that at least his body would look like the body of a teenage nerd.

Is this the girl that wasn't getting any roles because she was heavy and the theater industry fat shames actresses? Good for her.

Wow. There must be a huge crater where Lea Michele’s career used to be…

[quote]She could lose weight specifically for this production.

If she didn't for the Lewinsky role (screen visually adds pounds), she won't for the stage.

No one is going to see this.

Just be glad they don't cast Chris Colfer as Nick Arnstein.

Nepotism most foul. Hate her fat manic pixie facial expressions.

I've never seen them in the same room.

It's a role that will help her lose weight. Look what Rose did for Tyne!

[quote] Her best friend Ben Platt did it for the movie

I think you got the name wrong.

Lea's best gay friend is Jonathan Groff.

Ivanka is Jewish now. She could have reconceived her career and starred in this Revival.

Her husband could pay for it and keep it running more than long enough for Vanky to save face.

Which face, r78?

Sparkle, Beanie, Sparkle!

Beanie Butterface.

[quote]Sparkle, Beanie, Sparkle!

More like Sprinkles, Beanie, Sprinkles.

Maybe Beanie's casting is a production strategy to drum up underground support for Leah Michelle, who they've secretly wanted as their "Funny Girl" all along. As the videos above have shown, Leah's interpersonal relations have nearly undone her. Casting her in a revival to start off with comes off as rewarding bad behavior and bestowing entitlements that have already antagonized her fan and non-fan base.

Casting a mediocre, milquetoast fatty creates a different kind of dissension, as the role of Fanny Brice is all but sacred ground and an unbeatable standard set by Streisand. What if the plan is for Feldstein to screw up in previews, repel audiences, and leave producers with a recast option as the last attempt to salvage the dog? That's where Leah Michelle comes in. In perfect Eve Harrington fashion, she slips into the part, saves the day, gets the haters back on her side, and romps home with great reviews, accolades, and a critical and financial hit!

And P.S. Could Miss Barbra have a covert stake or at least an approval as to the casting of her iconic role? And will the opening coincide with her 80th birthday and the release of her much-anticipated autobiography. "My Search for Beauty?" We shall see....

NOBODY ALIVE knows about "unbeatable standards" set by Streisand on stage. LEA Michelle is too tainted to be called in for anything.

R84 Your latter statement I get. Your former statement qualifies you as either under 12, on the spectrum, or plain dumb as rocks. Streisand is a once in a lifetime talent, unequaled, unrivaled. It's only taken 58 years to mount a revival of "Funny Girl." There's a reason, jackass.

Anyone want to take this ^

R86, not really. I started, but realized it was probably like taking to a brick wall.

Your scenario could be a Broadway musical all on its own, r83.

The whole fucking world is falling apart in real time, but you showmos are gathered together here bitching about a 57 year old shit-poor musical being revived without a star.

God bless you, bitches.

With so little to be sure of If there's anything at all If there's anything at all I'm sure of here and now and us together

R89 = fun at parties

A reguluh laugh riot, r90!

Has Jonathan Groff commented yet?

Wow! This could be Melissa Miller's big break!

As I said in another thread....who ever did the casting must have confused Fanny Brice with Sophie Tucker when they cast Beanie...and who the hell names their kid Beanie ?

What should they have named her, R94, Cecil?

[quote]so really is there anyone out there you queens would like to see as Fanny?

NO. FUNNY GIRL is a terrible Broadway musical that was made into a hit by the star power of its leading lady. Not because of the writing. So, unless you can sign a 24 year old Barbra Streisand to revive, or her equivalent (someone we have not found in the intervening 57 years,) then there is no need to revive this crappy show.

By the time it was filmed, Streisand's star was burning brightly and they recrafted the piece into a star vehicle for his famous and famously talented leading lady. But the Broadway show is very different. And pointless.

R96, I disagree. The Broadway show is definitely B level musical comedy, but it isn't as bad as some like to say. I have seen it several times in Europe. The problem is that in the USA, the show has the Streisand/Brice baggage. In Europe, Fanny, is just a stage character, like Julie Jordan, or Ado Annie. Without that baggage it works much better. Still not perfect, but better.

Uncharacteristically for me, this is one show that I think would be improved with nontraditional casting. If Fanny was a Black actress trying to make it in a largely white world, it would have a bit more weight. Also, the second act would work better with a Black Fanny and White Nick.

Yes, it is going to have plenty of weight with Beanie Feldstein, (yuk, yuk). And yes, I wrote "black fanny". Grow up.

Whatever, R97.

"... definitely B level musical comedy...." You stated it yourself.

I would suggest that it means something that with that terrific overture and songs like "People" and "Don't Rain on My Parade," it still can't get past "definitely B level musical comedy" because of that shitty book built on a bad idea.

R98, yes "B Level", not C level or bottom of the barrel. "B" means good, not great. Were you one of those kids who thought if you got a "B", you failed?

There are plenty of B level musicals that are worthy of production. The book isn't "shitty". Act I is pretty good. It is Act II where it falls apart.

[quote] R11] A pile of shit would be better, and thinner than Beanie.

Oh my

[quote]Act I is pretty good. It is Act II where it falls apart.

Sorry, but that's a good example of a shitty book. A long day's musical journey into a not very compelling night.

No. We have two great recordings of the score. The OBC and the film soundtrack. On those recordings you'll find the very best FUNNY GIRL has to offer. There is no reason to invest millions of dollars into a stage production of FUNNY GIRL. Girl meets boy. Girl sings "Don't rain on my parade." Boy does so. Girl whines about it then shrugs it off. "That's life in the the-ay-ter." Curtain.

No. It starts with a bad idea which has no where to go. And does so.

There are plenty worse musicals than Funny Girl. Would I see it without Streisand? No.

Lea IS Funny Girl.

"I'm the greatest star!"

Actually, here's a better version of the video at R103 without the stupid subtitles.

Here's one of Barbra singing the same song. I really don't see why people compare Lea Michelle to her at all.

Lea is karaoke Barbra.

Good karaoke Barbra, but still karaoke Barbra.

Melissa Miller can play Beanie in the eventual Ryan Murphy miniseries, "Whatever Happened to Beanie Feldmanstein?"

Lea Michelle has no creativity. Her versions are note by note copy of Ms B's, just like a 14 year old high school student.

Her rival only in the area of ego, narcissism, and entitlement. Both have run their course.

R92 Who the fuck cares about Jonathan Groff. He has like two modes of acting, shitty and very shitty. He's the Parker Posey of the posey set.

Groff's bubble butt has seen much traffic.

Anyone else who absolutely H-A-T-E-S the song "Don't Rain on My Parade"?

R83 Insightful and quite psychic.

And yet, Funny Girl weekly grosses have surpassed the weekly grosses from the ENTIRE RUN.