Posted by Claudia Draper 2013-02-08 11:25:30
on last night episode, all the kids at NYADA were excitied for and signed up for the revival of Funny Girl. Rachel says there is only one fanny brice. Let hope she keeps her mouth shut. Does anyone know if they are going to make this a storyline... I hope not. is GLEE going to do FUNNY GIRL ??
Posted by nasty_khakis 2013-02-08 11:37:06
What I assumed is going to happen is both Rachel and Santana will get callbacks with Santana getting it. Even if it's not "Funny Girl" I see Santana getting a big break really quickly and that bothering Rachel.
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Posted by OperaBwayLover 2013-02-08 12:57:42
Back when there was talk of a real Funny Girl revival, a few months ago, I believe, I remember reading somewhere that Ryan Murphy thought, if Lea Michele got cast as Fanny, that the billing should be "Lea Michele as Rachel Berry as Fanny Brice." No joke.
Obviously that didn't happen (thank God). I'm really hoping it was just a throwaway line. Did they ever follow up on her auditioning for "The Glass Menagerie"?
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Posted by luvtheEmcee 2013-02-08 13:42:23
To continue its slow march on the road toward conflating Rachel Berry with Lea Michele, probably yes.
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Posted by SonofRobbieJ 2013-02-08 13:59:03
I know this means admitting that I still watch GLEE, but did anyone else hear the BroadwayWorld shout-out on last night's episode?
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Posted by CarlosAlberto 2013-02-08 14:04:57
^ That's it! You are DED TO ME mister!! y'here me?!!! DED!! D-E-D: DED!!!
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Posted by Gothampc 2013-02-08 14:09:48
I want to know what role Kurt thinks he can get in Funny Girl? What NYADA should be teaching them is what roles they can believably play.
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Posted by SonofRobbieJ 2013-02-08 14:19:22
Oh come now...he could, in fact, play Eddie Ryan.
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Posted by nasty_khakis 2013-02-08 14:31:45
Kurt could be in the ensemble. I don't think he had ambitions of Nicki Arnstein. Sometime people do just audition for chorus roles.
But when Rachel said "You'll make a wonderful Fanny Brice" I said to myself "Oh girl just read you."
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Posted by Gothampc 2013-02-08 14:39:50
But the characters of Rachel and Kurt continually push to be the stars of the show, the divas if you will. Is Kurt really going to accept a part as a member of the chorus or a one scene Eddie Ryan when Rachel will no doubt be Fanny Brice?
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Posted by nasty_khakis 2013-02-08 14:43:04
Yes, Kurt and Rachel feel they are big fish in a small pond aka the stars of Lima and NYADA, but I think they'd accept a small part in a broadway show right out of high school. I mean, they may turn it down to "continue their education and get a degree" but I think they'd realize a Broadway credit is a Broadway credit. Especially Kurt, because no matter how talented he is, he's a very very specific type vocally and acting wise. Take what you can get!
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Posted by Patash 2013-02-08 16:34:57
When Lea Michele as Rachel said she wasn't really interested in doing Funny Girl because there is only ONE Fanny Brice, for the first time I realized that girl can actually act. I believed her -- and we all know what acting it took for Lea Michele to pretend she doesn't want to do Funny Girl.
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Posted by Owen22 2013-02-08 16:41:07
You know, when Funny Girl was in talks last year and Lea Michele (the only person who is right for the role and with the star power to play Fanny at the moment)couldn't do it as she was contractually obligated to GLEE, I wondered, why doesn't Rachel get cast when Michelle does, and the cameras could follow Rachel/Lea as a reality show within GLEE, a boost to the TV show and to the revival commercially.
The bitches on here would hate it (which is one of the reasons I'm SO hoping I'm accidentally precognitive), but its great synergy.
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Posted by Gothampc 2013-02-08 16:45:39
"Yes, Kurt and Rachel feel they are big fish in a small pond aka the stars of Lima and NYADA, but I think they'd accept a small part in a broadway show right out of high school."
Wait!! This is for a Broadway production? Kurt said he went down and signed both of them up. Where did they get their Equity cards? Or is NYATA so great that producers just see them without Equity cards?
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Posted by luvtheEmcee 2013-02-08 17:03:43
Since when have we come to except realism from this hotbed of ridiculous?
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Posted by TheatreDiva90016 2013-02-08 17:14:26
"I want to know what role Kurt thinks he can get in Funny Girl?"
I can picture him as 'the looney who teaches voice' on Henry Street.
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Posted by Addison D. 2013-02-08 17:16:50
"You know, when Funny Girl was in talks last year and Lea Michele (the only person who is right for the role and with the star power to play Fanny at the moment)...."
Whaaaa?
Oh--wait. I see. You meant the only person currently starring in "Glee" at the moment with the star power to play Fanny. Got it.
THAT makes some sense ish...
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Posted by nasty_khakis 2013-02-08 17:47:11
The friends said "the broadway revival of Funny Girl is back on"
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Posted by Owen22 2013-02-08 17:51:15
Oh Addison. You're so silly.
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Posted by Gothampc 2013-02-08 17:53:24
"The friends said "the broadway revival of Funny Girl is back on"
That's what I thought, but Kurt and Rachel just can't show up and audition. They would need Equity cards or extraordinary agents. Or maybe Madame Whoopi Goldberg's character just pulled a few strings? Or maybe Kate Hudson offered the producers a bit of bippie to give the David Schwimmer girl an audition?
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Posted by nasty_khakis 2013-02-08 18:29:07
They said it was an open call. Or it's a tv show and it's easier for writers to say they signed up for spots for general auditions. This show isn't real and hardly plants itself in reality.
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Posted by all that jazz 2013-02-08 18:31:05
I'd love to see Lea as Fanny, even if they don't do funny girl she has got to sing People!! And sorry to change the subject but I thought Bring Him Home was just spectacular
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Posted by Gothampc 2013-02-08 18:43:03
"They said it was an open call."
Open calls are usually only for Equity actors. A non-equity person can't just "sign up". If anything, they would have to show up on the day of the audition and wait until every Equity actor has been seen.
If they are doing an open call for non-Equity actors, it's usually for a difficult to fill role like the little boy in Miss Saigon.
I know Glee isn't in the realm of reality, but we don't need thousands of "Gleek of the Week" kids descending on the city thinking they will immediately be cast in a Broadway show.
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Posted by trentsketch 2013-02-08 18:54:21
Maybe it was an open call like the Godspell revival's open call. Then we can have the hilarious scene where Rachel Berry falls flat on her butt because she got blinded by the cellphones in the Twitter row.
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Posted by henrikegerman 2013-02-08 19:03:33
Eddie is not a one scene role. He has a lot to do in the show and has two big numbers, Who Taught Her Everything and RataTatTat, neither of which were in the movie.
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Posted by Gothampc 2013-02-08 20:21:58
"He has a lot to do in the show and has two big numbers, Who Taught Her Everything and RataTatTat, neither of which were in the movie."
Explain that to:
Cliff in the last Cabaret revival who saw "Why Should I Wake Up?" put to bed
Annie in the last Annie Get Your Gun revival who saw "I'm An Indian Too" axed
Gavroche in the last Les Miserables revival who saw "Little People" orphaned
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Posted by broadwayjim42 2013-02-08 20:52:45
If the show doesn't get renewed, I could see them ending Rachel's character arc by casting her in Funny Girl, but I bet it would be as Fanny's understudy:)
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Posted by ClumsyDude15 2013-02-09 01:30:53
"If the show doesn't get renewed, I could see them ending Rachel's character arc by casting her in Funny Girl, but I bet it would be as Fanny's understudy:)"
A deal for season five and beyond is being worked out or has been pretty much confirmed.
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Posted by CJR 2013-02-16 17:49:11
SoaRJ - I just saw last weeks episode because Im lame, and watch all my shows on Hulu, but I was VERY excited for that shout out lol :)
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Posted by It's a fine life! 2013-02-16 17:50:39
To be perfectly honest, I cannot stand this show. But I might just change my opinion if there is a Funny Girl episode. We deserve something after the revival falling through.
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Posted by TheColorOfFlame 2013-02-16 21:28:31
I'm not even a Lady Gaga fan, but I have to bring her up. Somebody said Lea's currently the only person with the star power and the talent to take on the role, and while Gaga probably wouldn't take on Broadway now, I have a feeling she will in a few years.
I think she would be leagues better than Lea as Fanny Brice. Vocally rich, committed and theatrical, yet soulful and funny.
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Posted by broadwayjim42 2013-02-16 21:33:13
If there's a Season 5, why no word of a Glee Project 3 yet? Given the fact that the runner-ups have shone brighter than the winners, I can understand why it may not be a priority, but curious. And for purely selfish reasons, I'd like my daughter to have another chance to try out for it. She made a couple cuts for Season 2...her photo was visible on the casting special.
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Posted by ClumsyDude15 2013-02-17 00:59:48
broadwayjim - The article I read said the confirmation will be happening shortly to accommodate the beginning of The Glee Project auditions shortly. I made a video last year due to being unable to attend the actual auditions, and I too would like a chance to be seen again.
