Well, that’s that. After all the controversies and badly handled original castings and headlines and backstage bruisings and firings or resignations or whatever they were, Funny Girl is, as s…
Funny Girl,
a just-adequate musical, needs a lot more from its star, otherwise there’s just way too much adequate begging for attention.
But to suggest that Michele is Streisand 2.0 would be as demeaning as it is inaccurate. To my ears, Michele’s “People” is breathier than the Streisand classic, perhaps a bit warmer. “I’m The Greatest Star” arrives with such force-of-nature gusto that those multiple standing ovations you’ve been reading about seem absolutely spontaneous and heartfelt.
The new Fanny is equally at home during the non-singing segments, nailing the punchlines, such as they are, and finding a comfort level with her cast mates that Feldman didn’t always reach. Michele and Karimloo have an easy chemistry – at one point during the reviewed performance, there was a slight mishap with that famous blue marble egg that Nick gifts Fanny. It slipped from their hands and landed with a thud on the table, prompting laughter in the audience and among the two stars.
Her Fanny clearly took some important lessons to heart. Seems there’s been a lot of that going on over at the Wilson.
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