My rumor - Jessie Mueller to play Fanny Brice ~ Funny Girl/Whoppi called it

That's not a rumor. It's wishful thinking.

^like.

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Whoppi. EL OH EL

Jessie Sings very nicely but she doeesn't have the comedy chops to pull Brice off.

She is very honest, sincere and likable in her She Loves Me Clips from Chicago but Fanny Brice?
I do not think so.

If you look at her work on line, (Amalia in She Loves Me) it is on the lines of
an ingenue.

She is closer to Laura Osnes or a Susan Watson or an Anna Maria Alberghetti than to a character musical actress the likes of a Mimi Hines, Barbra Streisand, Lainie Kazan, Andrea Martin, to name a few. Leah Michelle could go either way...ingenue or character. I don't think Jessie Mueller can.

I suspect (and willing to be proven wrong) that she could not pull it off.

She just looked good in On a Clear Day because her voice was very good, there were few other woman and she had the best costumes.

I think it's safe to say from all these "Clear day" clips that Jessie can belt her face off with the best of them.

Jessie would make a glorious Fanny Brice. She can do ANYTHING. but we would love her back in Chicago. Take care of her NYC.

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I saw Jessie a couple years back do All Shook Up and more recently saw her in Guys and Dolls. To say she doesnt have the comic chops in my estimation would be wrong. I think shed be a lovely Fanny Brice however, I think at this point as it was stated without a big name it wont happen.

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I like Jessie and think she did a fine job in ON A CLEAR DAY, but aren't we going a little too far? Plus I'm still one who thinks Lauren - whom I sincerely think could have been wonderful - wasn't the problem in getting FUNNY GIRL going. I think the problem is FUNNY GIRL, a not great show forever enshrined to Barbra, which, most importantly, to be done right, is prohibitively expensive. If the show within a show numbers authentically even suggest The Ziegfeld Follies, and if fairly un-lavish shows like Promises and On A Clear Day can cost up to 9 million, then FUNNY GIRL, to be done justice, is a huge risk perhaps not worth taking.

Also, you'd have to wonder why the seeming multitudes with such facile objections to Ambrose - too Goyish, too pretty, not a big enough name, not known as a comic or a belter (whether she has those gifts or not) - to Ambrose, would jump on a - of all people, Jessie Mueller - bandwagon.

Updated On: 12/18/11 at 09:19 AM

"I saw her in "Baby" in the Liz Callaway role around five years ago, and she was very disappointing. She could not belt the "money notes" on THE STORY GOES ON and had to switch to her head voice."

Neither could Liz Callaway, who also had to switch to her head voice for the end. What's your point?

Wasn't Jessie out last night?

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I'm gonna Whoppi some ass unless this thread title gets fixed.

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Jessie mueller will be playing gypsy in Streisand's GYPSY ...