The Reviews For The Broadway Revival Of “Funny Girl” Starring Beanie Feldstein Are In, And Well….

Fifty-eight years after the original Broadway production premiered in 1964, the first-ever revival of Funny Girl opened last night at the August Wilson Theater. On Barbra Streisand’s 80th birthday, no less! This time, the titular funny girl Fanny Brice is played by Beanie Feldstein, and I’m sure everyone involved with this revival was hoping for the kind of reviews that Babs saw back in the 60s. But alas – a whole bunch of critics had to go and rain on everyone’s metaphorical parade. This is wild, because there’s a song in Funny Girl that explicitly asks you not to do that! But those critics did, or rather – some of them did. Meanwhile, some of them enjoyed what they saw and heard.

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