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Lea Michele Addresses Past Work Allegations & "Illiterate" Rumors
Lea Michele is the top prima connected her Funny Girl opening night.
The Glee alum wowed audiences connected Sept. 6 arsenic she stepped into the shoes Fanny Brice for the archetypal clip aft replacing Beanie Feldstein, who near the broadway amusement sooner than expected successful July.
Lots of large stars showed up to spot Michele's debut. An eyewitness tells E! News that Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy and Drew Barrymore were successful attendance, and that Lea received 4 lasting ovations during the archetypal act.
The eyewitness added, "The applause and cheering person been nonstop since Lea archetypal came connected stage."
Variety reporter Rebecca Rubin noted that Glee histrion Jonathan Groff and Zachary Quinto were besides successful the crowd. The newsman shared a video connected Twitter of Ryan and Jonathan hugging during the show's intermission.
Rubin uploaded a snapshot of Lea's bio connected the show's playbill, wherever it work that the Les Misérables performer "is thrilled to beryllium returning to Broadway."
E!'s eyewitness says that it was "phenomenal" to spot Michele enactment her magic "in specified an iconic and perfectly fitting role."
Another eyewitness tells E! News the vigor successful the country "was crazy," adding, "The assemblage was losing their minds astatine beauteous overmuch thing Lea did."
Michele's instrumentality truthful acold could beryllium marked arsenic a success, with Wall Street Journal social media exertion Gianna Barberia penning connected Twitter that the Scream Queens actress "brought the location down during 'His Love Makes Me Beautiful' and 'You Are Woman, I Am Man.'"
Barberia besides tweeted astir an speech during the show, which prompted a effect from the assemblage acquainted with the net rumor that Michele can't work oregon write.
"I'm praying that idiosyncratic has a video of Fanny saying 'I don't work galore books' to Nick close earlier 'People,'" the exertion wrote. "The laughter and gasps from the assemblage has energized maine for the week."
Mary Ellen Matthews
In effect to the rumors, Lea told the New York Times in an interrogation published Sept. 1 that the allegations were "sad."
"I went to Glee every azygous day; I knew my lines each azygous day," she told the publication. "And past there's a rumor online that I can't work oregon write? It's sad. It truly is. I deliberation often if I were a man, a batch of this wouldn't beryllium the case."
— Reporting by Charles O'Keefe
This communicative was primitively published connected Sept. 6, 2022 astatine 7:17p.m. PT and updated astatine 7:35 p.m. PT with further eyewitness information.
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