is GLEE going to do FUNNY GIRL ??

[Claudia Draper]

Posted: 2/8/13 at 11:25am

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.

[nasty_khakis]

Posted: 2/8/13 at 11:37am

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.

[OperaBwayLover]

Posted: 2/8/13 at 12:57pm

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"?

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 2/8/13 at 1:42pm

To continue its slow march on the road toward conflating Rachel Berry with Lea Michele, probably yes.

Updated On: 2/8/13 at 01:42 PM

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 2/8/13 at 1:59pm

I know this means admitting that I still watch GLEE, but did anyone else hear the BroadwayWorld shout-out on last night's episode?

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 2/8/13 at 2:04pm

^ That's it! You are DED TO ME mister!! y'here me?!!! DED!! D-E-D: DED!!!

[Gothampc]

Posted: 2/8/13 at 2:09pm

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.

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 2/8/13 at 2:19pm

Oh come now...he could, in fact, play Eddie Ryan.

[nasty_khakis]

Posted: 2/8/13 at 2:31pm

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."

[Gothampc]

Posted: 2/8/13 at 2:39pm

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?

[nasty_khakis]

Posted: 2/8/13 at 2:43pm

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!

[Patash]

Posted: 2/8/13 at 4:34pm

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.

[Owen22]

Posted: 2/8/13 at 4:41pm

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.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 2/8/13 at 4:45pm

"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?

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 2/8/13 at 5:03pm

Since when have we come to except realism from this hotbed of ridiculous?

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 2/8/13 at 5:14pm

"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.

[Addison D.]

Posted: 2/8/13 at 5:16pm

"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...

[nasty_khakis]

Posted: 2/8/13 at 5:47pm

The friends said "the broadway revival of Funny Girl is back on"

[Owen22]

Posted: 2/8/13 at 5:51pm

Oh Addison. You're so silly.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 2/8/13 at 5:53pm

"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?

[nasty_khakis]

Posted: 2/8/13 at 6:29pm

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.

[all that jazz]

Posted: 2/8/13 at 6:31pm

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

[Gothampc]

Posted: 2/8/13 at 6:43pm

"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.

[trentsketch]

Posted: 2/8/13 at 6:54pm

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.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 2/8/13 at 7:03pm

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.

Updated On: 2/8/13 at 07:03 PM