Lea Michele will replace Beanie Feldstein in Broadway's Funny Girl

Glee star Lea Michele will replace Beanie Feldstein in Broadway's Funny Girl

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The show announced Monday that the Emmy Award-nominated Michele

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would replace Beanie Feldstein in the titular role starting in September.

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Tony Award-nominated Tovah Feldshuh will step in as Mrs. Brice, currently played by Jane Lynch, another Glee alum.

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The announcement came less than a day after Feldstein took to Instagram to tell her followers that "once the production decided to take the show,

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in a different direction" she would step away two months earlier than anticipated on July 31st.

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The production's current understudy, Julie Benko, will play Fanny until Michele comes on.

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But when it came to the vocal chops and depth needed for songs like “My Man” and “Don’t Rain on My Parade,” some critics noted Feldstein didn’t have the range.

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