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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.

The 37-year-old actress, who is pregnant with her second child, cradled her baby bump while walking the red carpet at the 2024 Hope Rising Benefit on Thursday night (April 4) at the Ziegfeld Ballroom in New York City.

Lea was joined by Anna Wintour at the event.

One night earlier, the Funny Girl tour had its opening night performance in Los Angeles at the Ahmanson Theatre.

Newcomer Katerina McCrimmon is leading the production and she got rave reviews and standing ovations for her work as Fanny Brice. “The best thing about Katerina McCrimmon’s dazzling performance is that she makes the character her own,” a review in the Los Angeles Times said, adding that she “brings the house down in Fanny’s poleaxing first-act numbers.”

Funny Girl is playing at Center Theatre Group’s Ahmanson Theatre through April 28. Get tickets now!

FYI: Lea is wearing Michael Kors with a Brilliant Earth Cuff Bracelet.

An interesting detail about the Broadway revival of Funny Girl, starring replacement actress Lea Michele, was buried into a new report about Taylor Swift‘s concert movie.

The Hollywood Reporter did an in-depth analysis into how Taylor‘s movie for The Eras Tour concert is setting the stage for more concert and event films in the future.

The article had a brief mention of live theatre being filmed for the masses, including how HBO filmed a performance of David Byrne‘s recent Broadway musical American Utopia.

So, what happened with Funny Girl? And why wasn’t it ever filmed? Lea expressed interest in making a movie back in April, about five months before the show closed.

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UPDATE: James Brolin has released a statement confirming he did misspeak.

“To My Wife Barbra and all her fans, Drinking tequila with Bill Maher on his ‘Club Random’ podcast recently, I mistakenly mentioned the wrong film. I meant to say my wife was working on The Way We Were. Apologies for all the confusion … Jim Brolin,” he said.

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Legendary actor James Brolin says that his wife Barbra Streisand is working on a new ending for her classic movie Funny Girl, but some people think he misspoke.

The 83-year-old actor appeared on a new episode of Bill Maher‘s Club Random podcast and chatted about Barbra’s beloved musical film.

Funny Girl was released 55 years ago, but James said that Barbra‘s working on a new ending for the film to celebrate its 50th anniversary. So, did he get the film wrong?

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

The 37-year-old has led the revival since September of last year and marked her goodbye with a rendition of “My Man” on stage.

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

The 37-year-old Glee alum took to social media on Monday (August 28) to reveal that the 76-year-old screen icon attended one of her final shows in the role of Fanny Brice.

They even got a photo together on the Broadway stage!

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There’s only one more week of performances until Funny Girl closes on Broadway and Lea Michele ends he run as Fanny Brice.

The 36-year-old actress has been fulfilling a storyline that happened on Glee when her character Rachel Berry starred in the first-ever Broadway revival of Funny Girl after idolizing Barbra Streisand while growing up, just as Lea herself did.

Some of Lea‘s Glee castmates have already rushed to see her in the musical during the first two months of her run, while some other former co-stars have publicly voiced that they will not be attending the show.

Browse through the slideshow to see who attended the show already, and who probably never will…

Funny Girl has hit a major milestone.

On Monday (August 7), the producers of the Broadway revival – which stars Lea Michele as Fanny Brice – announced that the show had recouped its $16.5 million capitalization.

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