Lea Michele to Star as Fanny Brice in FUNNY GIRL Starting 9/6; Beanie Feldstein Departing 7/31 — Page 25

Besides the Great Comet fiasco, Many Patinkin was also welcomed back with open arms in the theatre community after his disgusting antics in The Wild Party.

babyjunegem said: "It's interesting that people only care about morals when that person's behavior is made public. There's another Broadway lady who has dominated awards season and has gotten away with nightmarish backstage behavior. If you know, you know. Everyone continues to kiss her ass, but if you were watching closely, her former co-workers have been mostly silent about her recent success. I wonder if she too has changed or if she's been emboldened to be an even bigger bully. Lea Michele currently has no career because of her bad reputation. It'll be interesting if she makes an effort here."

The only way for people to care is if the behavior is made public. Otherwise people don't know about it. I genuinely don't know who you're talking about, so I can't care.

An Oscar winning tony host

Just saw some tickets for FG on TDF...with all artwork of Beanie's face gone (her name is still there). It looks...sad. Kinda like this whole situation.

BroadwayGirl107 said: "nativenewyorker2 said: "An Oscar winning tony host"

Never heard anything but great things about her from friends in the industry, but I do think she's boring AF and doesn't deserve to be a big of a deal as she is based on that, lol."

im only tangentially connected to the theater community and i have heard lots of negativity about her, for years. and her demeanor (while shes certainly talented) seems to confirm it imho

Beanie should use some of the family cash to build herself a time machine, go back to when she was 3 or whatever, and convince mini-Beanie to drop the Streisand obsession and find a new idol. She got herself into this mess - “I’ve wanted to play Fanny Brice forever, and this is my dream-come-true, pinch-me moment!” bla bla bla - and now is mad at OTHER people for how this has turned out?
She was given the chance to succeed. She failed miserably. I had her number from the first scream in Hello, Dolly.

PipingHotPiccolo said: "Haven't read the article yet but its WILD to me that the producers have the gall to consider firing her during previews. Why? She sounded different than she did throughout rehearsals? They hadnt noticed? I can understand if the sales werent there but they were clearing $1m/week through summer. Firing someone who is 100% performing AS YOU KNEW SHE WOULD seems outrageous to me and again, contractually impossible assuming lawyers had any say in this."

In the Golden Age of Broadway, Beanie would have been fired in previews (or Out-of-Town). She was not good enough for a ticket-paying audience. There's a lot of reasons Broadway has declined and they all center around cowardly producers who refuse to change anything during rehearsal and previews. Beanie should have been gone by week two and those dreadful rewrites should have been cut or rewritten so they were good.

To paraphrase Ethel Merman: This ain't Broadway.

The Inside Source: “This is partly our fault, because if we had done what we were supposed to do at the beginning we wouldn’t be here. We didn’t take swift enough action to remove her.”

Translation: being nice at the start and giving Beanie a chance was a mistake.

But can you imagine how mad the Beanie people would have been if they’d fired her after opening? The producers can’t win. Damned if they do, damned if they don’t. The common denominator is the sub-par Beanie.

The Inside Source: “This is partly our fault, because if we had done what we were supposed to do at the beginning we wouldn’t be here. We didn’t take swift enough action to remove her.”

Uhhh....why did you guys put her there in the FIRST place? One uncomfortable conversation before previews started would have saved everyone a lot ot time and pain. Are we that "nice" a society now that no one can have a tough conversation? Best just to avoid it?

Jesus.

Agreed. It's a press statement that was done in a very professional manner. Now that doesn't mean I think Lynch has anything against Michelle, but... I think the answer is still in the "it's anyone's guess" realm.

Patti LuPone FANatic said: "DAME said: "VotePeron said: "Very notable that Julie was being perceived as agitating the situation by posting she was on, although never told to stop. Interesting to keep in mind when solely blaming the producers for Beanie’s hurt feelings."

I thought Benko's posts were in poor form. I asked about that here but the consensus was that in this age of social media this is the way it goes. I wonder if with Lea coming in they will go to an imposed social media blackout... like they did with Bette in Dolly. I think they should."



I absolutely disagree with this assessment. Julie has been wonderful in all of this. There is nothing wrong with keeping people informed about her "opportunities" in performing the role. She is always happy and excited to get those chances. I am mystified why there are those who would prefer a social media blackout. I think they SHOULD NOT.

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A little of the magic is gone with all the social media backstage stuff. I miss the mystique.