Lea Michele Sidelined From Broadway's Funny Girl With Son's 'Scary Health Issue' | Playbill

Broadway News Lea Michele Sidelined From Broadway's Funny Girl With Son's 'Scary Health Issue'

The Glee star will miss both performances March 22, according to social media posts.

Lea Michele takes first bow in Funny Girl Bruce Glikas

Lea Michele will miss both the matinee and evening performances of Broadway's Funny Girl March 22, the production has confirmed.

The Glee star posted on Instagram that she was at the hospital with her son "dealing with a scary health issue that I need to be here for." It remains unclear when Michele will be able to return to the production, with standby Julie Benko filling in for Wednesday's performances and the Thursday performance, the latter as previously scheduled.

Funny Girl also stars Ramin Karimloo as Nick Arnstein, 2022 Tony nominee Jared Grimes as Eddie Ryan, Tovah Feldshuh as Mrs. Brice, Peter Francis James as Florenz Ziegfeld, Ephie Aardema as Mrs. Nadler, Debra Cardona as Mrs. Meeker, Toni DiBuono as Mrs. Strakosh, and Martin Moran as Tom Keeney.

The ensemble features Amber Ardolino, Daniel Beeman, Kurt Csolak, Leslie Donna Flesner, Afra Hines, Masumi Iwai, Aliah James, Stephen Mark Lukas, John Thomas Manzari, Katie Mitchell, Justin Prescott, Mariah Reives, and Leslie Blake Walker. Rounding out the company are standbys Liz McCartney and Jeremiah James and swings Colin Bradbury, John Michael Fiumara, Danielle Kelsey, and Alicia Lundgren.

Building upon Jule Styne's original score and Bob Merrill's lyrics, Tony winner Harvey Fierstein revised the book (from Isobel Lennart's original) for this revival of the biomusical tracking real-life singer and comic Fanny Brice. From humble beginnings in Brooklyn, New York, Brice rose to fame and fortune onstage in the Ziegfeld Follies and as a radio and screen performer. The original 1964 production propelled a young Barbra Streisand to international fame; she reprised her stage performance in the 1968 film adaptation, winning an Academy Award and a Golden Globe in the process.

In a rare occurrence, the cast album, released January 20, features the production's replacement stars, Michele and Feldshuh.

 
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