Julie Benko as Fanny Brice: A Star is Born

BW’s 2022 ‘Funny Girl’ Revival & the “Star is Born” Glow of Julie Benko

https://ff2media.com/blog/2022/07/14/star-is-born-glow-of-julie-benko-in-funny-girl/

On May 4th (~ 2 months ago), FF2 posted my review of standby Julie Benko’s opening night performance as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl.

Although I have seen many Broadway performances, Julie’s performance was a rare chance to actually see a star being born, and watching her debut is a memory I will always treasure. Since then, Julie has earned many more fans. The Broadway community is nearly united in their enthusiasm for Julie, and my review for FF2 is currently my top performing piece of published writing ever.

My question is: will they update key art (and everything that features it from Playbills to merch to the marquee) to be Julie or not? My guess is not and it will be totally bull**** if that's the case! She deserves to have her name and picture on everything too!

Six Funny Girl threads (and counting) on the main page alone.

Not since Cats has there been so much made over something so mediocre.

Auggie27 said: "So far, the Benko performances are not on TDF. As TDF users like me know well, it’s a very fluid discount site with hourly changes. The final Feldstein shows were on for a few days but came down."

It is literally on TDF from 8/2-8/7, every performance next week.

Uncle Charie advises:

"LOL. If there was any actual moderation being done, this thread would have been merged into the existing 283 post Julie Benko as Fanny Brice thread within 15 minutes of it being created. But, whatever. Welcome to the Department of Redundancy Department."

It will all be over soon, thank God.

Updated On: 7/29/22 at 12:19 AM

I think it’s great that a no name talented actress is getting her due!! But…a star is born…is a bit of a stretch. Will she be a household name after her month of playing the lead? No, I doubt it

I appreciate everyones excitement for her. I just think that if she gets officially reviewed some of you will be very disappointed with what is said about what was to me ( my opinion), a regional theater level performance. A performance that while much better and preferable to Beanies.. is just not at the level at which we should have.

As far as new art work for the show and playbill.. I would love to see just a picture of the actress playing the role. I think that would be so classy. Maybe one of the actress with her Nick over a piano. A throwback to the original.

Papi2013 said: "I appreciate everyones excitement for her. I just think that if she gets officially reviewed some of you will be very disappointed with what is said about what was to me ( my opinion), a regional theater level performance. A performance that while much better and preferable to Beanies.. is just not at the level at which we should have.

As far as new art work for the show and playbill.. I would love to see just a picture of the actress playing the role. I think that would be so classy. Maybe one of the actress with her Nick over a piano. A throwback to the original."

Bring on Julie Benko...Go!