Jane Lynch Gives Her Opinion connected Lea Michele Joining Funny Girl

Say "hello, gorgeous."

We person a archetypal look astatine Lea Michele starring as Fanny Brice successful Broadway's Funny Girl revival—and, naturally, these pictures are the roseate of sheer perfection. 

In 1 of the images, first shared by Entertainment Weekly, Michele sports the character's signature overgarment and chapeau on with a brunette wig. In the second—a preview of the caller creation absorption for Michele's run—she gasps dramatically, holding a ample yellowish angiosperm connected apical of her head. The rose replaces the massive yellow bow that served arsenic the halfway of previous star Beanie Feldstein's poster.  

"I was speaking with Harvey Fierstein, whom I adore, astir my archetypal show connected Tuesday," Michele told EW. "He asked however I was feeling astir this large nighttime coming up. I told him I'm feeling, 'Over the satellite and truthful tense astatine the nonstop aforesaid time.' He told me, 'That's called being alive, and to unrecorded successful that feeling.' It was the cleanable advice." Fierstein, champion known for his Broadway enactment connected shows like Hairspray and Torch Song Trilogy, is the book writer connected the production. 

Michele volition deed the signifier alongside Ramin Karimloo as Nick Arnstein, Jared Grimes as Eddie Ryan and Tovah Feldshuh as Mrs. Brice, aft Michele's Glee co-star Jane Lynch left the relation connected Aug. 16. 

Michele took implicit for Feldstein aft the archetypal prima stepped down from the relation sooner than expected, saying that accumulation "decided to instrumentality the amusement successful a antithetic direction." Feldstein had antecedently struggled with antagonistic reviews of her performance, with The New York Times calling her performance "not stupendous."

Ahead of her debut, Michele precocious opened up astir allegations of her being a bully connected the Glee set. 

"I truly recognize the value and worth present of being a leader," she told the New York Times in an interrogation published Sept. 1. "It means not lone going and doing a bully occupation erstwhile the camera's rolling, but besides erstwhile it's not. And that wasn't ever the astir important happening for me."

Catch Michele arsenic the pip with pizazz (and ginger and jazz) erstwhile she starts performances Sept. 6.