{"id":67658,"date":"2021-08-16T00:26:09","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T07:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=67658"},"modified":"2021-08-16T00:26:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T07:26:09","slug":"latest-funny-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/08\/16\/latest-funny-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Funny Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every decade or so, a revival of <strong><em>Funny Girl<\/em><\/strong> is planned.&nbsp; The show hasn\u2019t had a <em>Broadway <\/em>run since the original production closed in 1967.&nbsp; Due to the close association with <strong>Barbra Streisand<\/strong>, it\u2019s assumed anyone playing <strong>Fanny Brice <\/strong>would suffer by comparison \u2013 although it should be noted that Barbra\u2019s replacement, <strong>Mimi Hines<\/strong>, played the role on <em>Broadway <\/em>longer than Streisand.&nbsp; Back in 2012, a production starring <strong>Lauren Ambrose <\/strong>was announced.&nbsp; Then it looked like <strong>Lea Michele <\/strong>might bring it back to <em>Broadway <\/em>in 2014.&nbsp; So it\u2019s with great trepidation that I announce a revival is scheduled to open on <em>Broadway <\/em>on April 2, 2022.&nbsp; The Fanny will be <strong>Beanie Feldstein <\/strong>\u2013 who played <strong>Minnie Fay <\/strong>in <strong><em>Hello, Dolly!<\/em><\/strong> opposite <strong>Bette Midler <\/strong>and will play <strong>Monica Lewinsky <\/strong>in <strong><em>Impeachment: American Crime Story<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; <strong>Rosie O\u2019Donnell <\/strong>said she\u2019d be in the <em>Broadway <\/em>revival, but producers are still auditioning hopefuls for the role of Mrs. Brice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every decade or so, a revival of Funny Girl is planned.&nbsp; The show hasn\u2019t had a Broadway run since the original production closed in 1967.&nbsp; Due to the close association with Barbra Streisand, it\u2019s assumed anyone playing Fanny Brice would suffer by comparison \u2013 although it should be noted that Barbra\u2019s replacement, Mimi Hines, played<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67672,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67658\/revisions\/67672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}