![]() ![]() Besides helping to bring out the hankies, Feldshuh turns “Who Taught Her Everything She Knows,” danced alongside the great Jared Grimes, into a genuine show-stopper. ![]() The soap opera of the second act works even better now that Tovah Feldshuh has taken over for Jane Lynch as Fanny’s mother. ![]() ![]() Tovah Feldshuh and Lea Michele in “Funny Girl” (Photo: Matthew Murphy) Lea Michele Fans Kvell Over ‘Funny Girl’ Broadway Debut: ‘Holy S– Yes She’s That Good’ Likewise, Michele sounds great whenever she opens her mouth to sing in this Broadway revival of “Funny Girl.” Her diva instincts really come alive when she rips through “I’m the Greatest Star” and “Don’t Rain on My Parade.” The ambition and the drive are not only fabulous, they are naked, and Michele has the vocal chops to bring down the house without much help from that most overworked piece of equipment on Broadway: the amplification. Streisand sounds great whenever she opens her mouth to sing. Not that “Funny Lady” is completely without merit. “She was under contract!” he apologizes to the bride he has just jilted at the altar when he belatedly comes out of the closet on their wedding day. Even Kevin Kline’s Babs-loving character in “In & Out” had to admit the 1975 movie musical in which the star reprised her Oscar-winning role as an older Fanny Brice is dreadful. Michele’s version of Fanny Brice instead recalls “Funny Lady.” And anyone who knows the career of La Streisand knows that to bring up the 1975 big-screen sequel to the 1968 classic “Funny Girl” is not exactly a compliment. What’s missing is a “girl” who happens to be very “funny.” From the moment she enters the stage at the August Wilson Theatre, Michele is a singing diva hard at work. There is nothing light about her playing Fanny Brice in the current Broadway revival of “Funny Girl,” which opened last spring and now stars Michele in the title role previously held by Beanie Feldstein. On the TV series “Glee,” Lea Michele honed an image of being Barbra Lite. ![]()
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