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

[ThatBitc]

Posted: 12/15/11 at 1:01pm

Whoppi said what i was thinking, "whenever Funny girl comes to Bway Jessie should play Fanny"

Bob Boyett & Bartlett should strike while the irons hot.

[ljay889]

Posted: 12/15/11 at 1:04pm

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

[newintown]

Posted: 12/15/11 at 1:04pm

That iron has been on the scrap heap for some time now.

[Pippin]

Posted: 12/15/11 at 1:04pm

^like.

[MadonnaMusical]

Posted: 12/15/11 at 1:08pm

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!! This girl is the next barbra/liza YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!!

YES.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 12/15/11 at 1:09pm

Whoppi. EL OH EL

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 12/15/11 at 1:17pm

Jessie Mueller who? That's what 99% of the ticket buying public would be asking.

If Lauren Ambrose, well-known for her TV work and with some mainstream public exposure couldn't keep from investors pulling out of the 2012 Broadway revival of FUNNY GIRL, Jessie Mueller most definitely won't get them even a return phone call.

Sadly, looks like Lea Michele is the only name at this point that would bring back investors on any possible FUNNY GIRL revival.

[goldenboy]

Posted: 12/15/11 at 4:09pm

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.

[emilyfaye48]

Posted: 12/15/11 at 4:19pm

How could you possibly know she doesn't have the comedy chops? Have you seen her in a comedy? Personally I'm still dreaming of sjb or kritzer but it's all just a fantasy, we all know Barbra had Laurents killed so she could move Gypsy along, and she had hentch men threatening producers in seedy back alleys to pull out of Funny Girl. No one is Barbra,NO ONE

[goldenboy]

Posted: 12/15/11 at 4:32pm

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.

[Jon]

Posted: 12/15/11 at 6:36pm

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.

[StephanietheStar]

Posted: 12/15/11 at 10:02pm

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.

[AwesomeDanny]

Posted: 12/15/11 at 10:05pm

I think she is a very talented performer. I just saw her as Mary in a production of Merrily this spring, and she was great in the role. Judging from that performance, she is definitely more than just an ingenue.

[Theatreboy49]

Posted: 12/15/11 at 10:39pm

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.

[Huss417]

Posted: 12/16/11 at 8:37am

Who or what is a "Whoppi"?

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 12/16/11 at 9:19am

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

[goldenboy]

Posted: 12/18/11 at 1:20am

Here here Heinrickegerman!!

[sondhead]

Posted: 12/18/11 at 12:44pm

"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?

[steven22]

Posted: 2/1/15 at 8:56am

I know this thread is super old...but I saw Beautiful last night....the entire time I couldn't stop imagining Jessie in Funny Girl...needs to happen

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 2/1/15 at 4:05pm

Wasn't Jessie out last night?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 2/1/15 at 4:06pm

Was Whoppi there?

[GiantsInTheSky2]

Posted: 2/1/15 at 10:16pm

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

[haterobics]

Posted: 2/1/15 at 10:17pm

This thread started in 2011 by someone who hasn't been on here since July, so... probably not going to get changed.

[Claudia Draper]

Posted: 2/1/15 at 10:27pm

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

[GiantsInTheSky2]

Posted: 2/1/15 at 10:39pm

Yes, haterobics, because that comment was clearly 100% serious. Gimme a break.