Lea Michele to Star as Fanny Brice in FUNNY GIRL Starting 9/6; Beanie Feldstein Departing 7/31 — Page 46

I was surfing around and looked at IBDB. I didn't realize they had the replacements up already. They have all of Julie's dates including when Lea Michele comes on board. And Lea and Tovah there as replacements from their starting date.

I hadn't checked before has that been on the site before today?

binau said: "Out of curiosity is the show sold out tonight and if not how much availability is there? (I can’t see the seating chart on mobile only). Curious if Beanie has fans who want to see her off."

Not even close to sold out. Plenty of availability. Up on TKTS today

Plannietink08 said: "I need the next season of Ryan Murphy’s FEUD to be about Laine and Barbra’s relationship in Funny Girl with Lea playing Barbra and Beanie playing Laine."

Lainie Kazan, not Laine.

I’m curious if the creatives are attending today to normalize this exit. The final five performances landing on TDF surprised me, as did the TKTS availability; it’s still up,

Jane is out today. Very excited to finally see Liz McCartney!

RippedMan said: "That's sad about Jane. I guess she already played her last show then?"

According to the show’s site Jane Lynch doesn’t leave until September 4th

Oh my apologies! Still sucks she didn't get to do Beanie's final show.

angoradebs said: "binau said: "Out of curiosity is the show sold out tonight and if not how much availability is there? (I can’t see the seating chart on mobile only). Curious if Beanie has fans who want to see her off."

Not even close to sold out. Plenty of availability. Up on TKTS today"

The filled seats are likely her fans or vacationers with time constraints who couldn't change their tickets. Can't see anyone rushing to buy tickets to see someone who was fired for not being up to snuff.

They still have Ephie and Julie had COVID pretty recently, so that *probably* protects her for the time being and takes out the biggest reason for missed shows. It's only 4 weeks, so I could see them just playing it risky with only 1 potential Fanny cover instead of training and paying a new person.

I don't think Benko is being replaced. She's still the standby just has one guaranteed performance a week. And then stands by for Lea.

I'm glad the cast and some of the crew as well as the audience gave her a loving send off at her final curtain call. This definitely wasn't her role from what I saw at the preview I attended and it sounds like things were handled poorly as that became increasingly apparent, but she clearly was loved by many of the cast and crew and at the end of the day, being a good person and co-worker matter more. Best wishes to her.

James Kerrigan2 said: "Who will be replacing Julie Benko as Standby while she plays Fanny Full-Time?"

Ephie will be the Fanny understudy. She plays Emma and Mrs. Nadler in the show already. Julie never played any other role in the show which is why she was she was the only standby to Beanie. Don’t know who’s 2nd understudy who would play Fanny if Emma can’t.

I was incredibly moved by that curtain call video, and the kindness shown to someone who's been through the wringer lately. Watching her reaction to Peter Francis James' compliments, all I could see was someone who didn't think she deserved them, and that broke my heart. At this point, how she got the role and what I thought of her performance are irrelevant, and I'm just hoping she bounces back from this, because I'm sure it took an emotional toll on her.