Fanny Brice: Last News

It was an emotional week for Lea Michele.

Kristin Chenoweth is heading to Broadway in late 2025 with her new musical The Queen of Versailles, but you have a few weeks left to catch the show in Boston during its world premiere run!

Jane Lynch is gushing over her former Glee co-star!

Lea Michele starred in the Funny Girl revival on Broadway, but she isn’t leading the national tour production that is traveling around the country right now.

Barbra Streisand, the Oscar- and Emmy-winning actor, singer, producer, writer and director, has been selected to receive the 2024 SAG Life Achievement Award.

Lea Michele has injured her arm!

Lea Michele bid goodbye to Funny Girl with a very special performance during the final curtain call.

Lea Michele is saying goodbye to Funny Girl ahead of her final show!

Lea Michele, the star of Funny Girl, ends her stay today in the Broadway revival. She noted the milestone with an Instagram post that touted thhe show’s recoupment of its $16.5 million capitalization.

Lea Michele had an icon cheering her on in the audience at a recent Funny Girl performance – Glenn Close.

Lea Michele is celebrating her son Ever's birthday months after a «scary health issue» sent him to the hospital.The star took to Instagram to share a family photo of her, Ever, and her husband, Zandy Reich. The sweet portrait saw the family dressed in white and tan, with the 36-year-old actress dressed in a white, flowing summer dress, Ever in a white shirt and cream shorts, and Reich in white tee and tan slacks.Michele and Reich smile back at the camera while each hold Ever's hand, as he stood in the middle of his proud parents, his back to the camera.The photo slideshow also included some solo shots with mom and the toddler, including a black-and-white pic of Michele cradling the little one, and one in color of the mother of one holding her baby boy as she smiled for the camera.«Happy 3rd Birthday to our beautiful son! Ever we love you so much!,» Michele, who plays Fanny Brice in the Broadway production captioned the post.A post shared by Lea Michele (@leamichele)Michele shared more pics of Ever's third birthday party on her Instagram Stories, including his -themed birthday cake and cookies.«Happy 3rd Birthday Ever,» she wrote over a shot of the treat display, which saw Ever's name spelled out on dog bone shaped cookies.The birthday party comes after a scary few months for the little one, who was hospitalized on multiple occasions this year.

Lea Michele is getting in some quality time with her best friend Jonathan Groff.

Funny Girl has hit a major milestone.

Funny Girl, the Broadway revival with one of the strangest casting histories in recent theatrical memory, has recouped its $16.5 million capitalization, producers announced today.

Brent Lang Executive Editor After one major cast change and a lot of off-stage drama, “Funny Girl” has recouped its $16.5 million capitalization, the producers of the Broadway revival announced on Monday. At one point, that kind of news would have seemed very unlikely. When “Funny Girl” opened in April 2022 at the August Wilson Theatre, Beanie Feldstein had the starring role of Vaudeville legend Fanny Brice, a part that had originally been filled by Barbra Streisand.

Lea Michele had a busy night at the 2023 Tony Awards on Sunday (June 11) in New York City, but she still managed to pack in some meaningful reunions with special people from her past.

Lea Michele brought the house down with her performance at the end of the night at the 2023 Tony Awards!

Lea Michele has arrived at the 2023 Tony Awards!

Lea Michele is one of the performers hitting the stage tonight at the 2023 Tony Awards, but she’s not nominated for an award.

Lea Michele has enjoyed monumental success since formally joining the cast of the Broadway hit Funny Girlin September 2022.

Lea Michele has enjoyed monumental success since formally joining the cast of the Broadway hit Funny Girlin September 2022.But while she's earned praise for deftly portraying the coveted role of the beloved character Fanny Brice, there's a simple reason why she's not eligible for a Tony Award. According to the Tony Awards' rules and regulations under eligibility requirements, «in order to be eligible, an actor or actress must perform in the role on the production's opening night and must perform in the minimum number of performances to which the producer of such production must invite and make tickets available to Tony voters as required by Rule 2(a)vi).»And therein lies the issue — the original actress who performed on opening night was Beanie Feldstein, who left in the wake of the show being at risk of closing due to poor reviews and lackluster ticket sales. That all changed after Michele formally replaced Feldstein in September.Michele and the cast of are still set to take the stage during Sunday night's ceremony as one of the evening's running list of performers.

Lea Michele has enjoyed monumental success since formally joining the cast of the Broadway hit Funny Girlin September 2022.But while she's earned praise for deftly portraying the coveted role of the beloved character Fanny Brice, there's a simple reason why she's not eligible for a Tony Award.According to the Tony Awards' rules and regulations under eligibility requirements, «in order to be eligible, an actor or actress must perform in the role on the production's opening night and must perform in the minimum number of performances to which the producer of such production must invite and make tickets available to Tony voters as required by Rule 2(a)vi).»And therein lies the issue — the original actress who performed on opening night was Beanie Feldstein, who left in the wake of the show being at risk of closing due to poor reviews and lackluster ticket sales. That all changed after Michele formally replaced Feldstein in September.The former star's debut came on Sept.