Lea Michele Closes The Tony Awards With Epic ‘Funny Girl’ Performance: Watch

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The biggest stars successful Broadway gathered for the Tony Awards successful New York City connected June 11, and Lea Michele gave viewers a sensation of Funny Girl arsenic she performed to adjacent the show. Lea dressed successful quality arsenic Fanny Brice and sang an unthinkable rendition of “Don’t Rain On My Parade.” She was surrounded by respective of her co-stars from the show, arsenic well, for the precocious vigor performance.

Lea MIchele performs "Don't Rain On My Parade" to adjacent retired the 2023 #TonyAwards pic.twitter.com/0OOLWhVy0T

— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) June 12, 2023

Lea began her tally arsenic Fanny Brice successful Sept. 2022, and will beryllium with the show until it closes connected Broadway successful Sept. 2023. Despite receiving large appraise for her show successful the role, though, Lea was not nominated astatine the 2023 Tonys, and she was not eligible to person a information either. Since Lea was not the archetypal prima of the production, she was not capable to get nominated.

Lea took implicit for the archetypal prima of Funny Girl, Beanie Feldstein, erstwhile she joined the cast. Beanie starred arsenic Fanny erstwhile the revival archetypal opened successful April 2022 and was successful the amusement until that July. She coiled up leaving the formed 2 months earlier her archetypal planned September departure, and Julie Blenko took connected the relation of Fanny earlier Lea’s arrival. The accumulation squad for Funny Girl could person filed a petition with the Tonys for Lea to beryllium nominated. However, they did not bash so.

Lea Michele astatine the Tony Awards. (Andrew H. Walker/Shutterstock)

The casting of Lea successful a real-life revival of Funny Girl is reminiscent of a storyline on Glee, wherever her character, Rachel Berry, joined a Funny Girl production. She has agelong talked astir her emotion of the amusement and tendency to play Fanny Brice. “I consciousness much acceptable than I ever person before, some personally and professionally,” Lea said successful a Sept. 2022 interrogation with The New York Times. “I person an borderline to me. I enactment truly hard. I person nary country for mistakes. That level of perfectionism, oregon that unit of perfectionism, near maine with a batch of unsighted spots.”

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