{"id":90337,"date":"2022-05-01T22:50:54","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T05:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=90337"},"modified":"2022-05-01T22:50:54","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T05:50:54","slug":"funny-how-it-aint-so-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/05\/01\/funny-how-it-aint-so-funny\/","title":{"rendered":"Funny How It Ain&#8217;t So Funny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like <strong>Beanie Feldstein<\/strong>.&nbsp; I really do.&nbsp; In <strong><em>Hello, Dolly!<\/em><\/strong>, she was fantastic.&nbsp; But a funny foil is a far cry from fronting a fractured fable like <strong><em>Funny Girl<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Before rehearsals even began, it was a foregone conclusion that the first <em>Broadway <\/em>revival of the show indelibly linked with <strong>Barbra Streisand <\/strong>was doomed \u2013 and scheduling opening night on Babs\u2019 80<sup>th<\/sup> birthday seemed almost cruel.&nbsp; Reportedly, Feldstein pulls off the novelty numbers.&nbsp; But most critics feel the vocal demands of the score are beyond her.&nbsp; Blaming Beanie (who, by the by, identifies as queer) seems wrong.&nbsp; Obviously she\u2019s been let down by the producers.&nbsp; Surely someone heard her sing \u201cPeople\u201d before hiring her.&nbsp; Now what?&nbsp; The big guessing game on the Rialto is who will replace Beanie\u2026should the show last long enough for a replacement.&nbsp; <strong>Idina Menzel <\/strong>was in the mix before Beanie was announced; <strong>Lea Michele <\/strong>before that; and <strong>Lauren Ambrose <\/strong>even earlier.&nbsp; I wouldn\u2019t want any of them cast in a role that requires powerhouse vocals plus a unique and quirky personality.&nbsp; Frankly, none of them could convince me that they\u2019re the greatest star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like Beanie Feldstein.&nbsp; I really do.&nbsp; In Hello, Dolly!, she was fantastic.&nbsp; But a funny foil is a far cry from fronting a fractured fable like Funny Girl.&nbsp; Before rehearsals even began, it was a foregone conclusion that the first Broadway revival of the show indelibly linked with Barbra Streisand was doomed \u2013 and<\/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-90337","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\/90337","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=90337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90346,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90337\/revisions\/90346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}