{"id":90569,"date":"2022-07-17T19:13:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T02:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=90569"},"modified":"2022-07-17T19:14:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T02:14:38","slug":"all-about-lea-michele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/07\/17\/all-about-lea-michele\/","title":{"rendered":"All About Lea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It finally happened \u2013 <strong>Lea Michele <\/strong>got cast as Fanny Brice in <strong><em>Funny Girl<\/em><\/strong>, which might more accurately be termed <strong><em>Funny Lady<\/em><\/strong>, since the 35-year-old Michele will play a teenager.&nbsp; It\u2019s been alleged that shortly after <strong>Beanie Feldstein<\/strong>\u2019s reviews came out, Lea let the powers know that she was available to take over the role.&nbsp; We\u2019re told she\u2019s having new costumes made to align with her interpretation \u2013 which I\u2019m told is basically a <strong>Streisand <\/strong>impersonation.&nbsp; Perhaps it will save the show.&nbsp; Ticket sales recently dropped from 85% to 65%.&nbsp; The hope is that the \u201cGleeks\u201d will come out <em>en masse <\/em>once Michele debuts on September 6<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp; However, <strong><em>Glee<\/em><\/strong> went off the air seven years ago, and most of the fans have moved on \u2013 some are already receiving a pension!&nbsp; Add in that Lea is a polarizing figure \u2013 beloved by many, but widely painted as a \u201cmean girl\u201d by colleagues.&nbsp; If anyone would know, it would be the current Mrs. Brice, <strong>Jane Lynch<\/strong>.&nbsp; She was scheduled to leave the show on September 25<sup>th<\/sup> and planned to overlap with the new Fanny for a few weeks.&nbsp; People anticipated a joyous <em>Glee<\/em> reunion.&nbsp; However, once Lea was announced, Lynch pushed up her departure to September 4<sup>th<\/sup> \u2013 two days before Michele starts.&nbsp; Coincidence?<\/p>\n<p>As we went to print, Beanie cancelled a few more performances.&nbsp; The reason?&nbsp; Tonsillitis.&nbsp; \u201cYa gotta laugh at a certain point.&nbsp; When it rains, it pours\u2026on your old pal Bean,\u201d said Feldstein.&nbsp; She hopes to do her last two weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It finally happened \u2013 Lea Michele got cast as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl, which might more accurately be termed Funny Lady, since the 35-year-old Michele will play a teenager.&nbsp; It\u2019s been alleged that shortly after Beanie Feldstein\u2019s reviews came out, Lea let the powers know that she was available to take over the role.&nbsp;<\/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-90569","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\/90569","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=90569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90571,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90569\/revisions\/90571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}