Early tweets regarding Lea Michele's Funny Girl debut

[genbu_no_miko24]

Audience at Lea Michele’s ‘Funny Girl’ debut gasped and laughed when she delivered the line “I haven’t read many books.”

🔗: https://t.co/wqspu3CdIp pic.twitter.com/TUpXxbWpNF
- Pop Crave (@PopCrave) September 7, 2022

DWD 🤝🏻 Funny Girl pic.twitter.com/AWl4GM11p6
- Marissa Longo (@missabowbissa) September 6, 2022
It's overwhelmingly positive lol

Comments

[emmanium]

I read she got SEVEN standing ovations in total. Which seems absolutely insane to me, but means that she did really well.

[silverstarry]

Or that the audience was packed with her friends/family/fans.

[yeah_banana]

I think this has become de rigueur for first/last performances for celebrities in musicals on Broadway.

I saw Hello, Dolly! with Bette Midler (too many times to count) and there was always a standing o after the title number (which was totally unnecessary in my mind and I looooved the show and the number). At her first performance back in the show after Bernadette Peters and at the last performance there was a standing o after almost every song. It’s too much.

[cassismagic]

[green_monsterx]

She sounds incredible. She has a magnificent voice tbh and I didn’t expect anything less of her. I saw it with Beanie and liked her but thought the play itself was the problem. I’m sure that’s still true, but I’d love to go back and see Lea in it

[winx]

Lukewarm take, but the book of the show has always been the primary problem. It drags so much you need someone with a voice that’ll make you forget how long the show is taking and even enjoy sitting through the dull bits

[evilmaidel]

omg totally. i went on sunday and saw it with julie benko. she was adorable and charismatic, hilarious with a great voice. act 1 was pretty entertaining and fun, so i was wondering why so many people trashed the show. but then act 2 was so terrible the only saving grace really was her voice, and that i was invested in her as a person because of act 1.

[green_monsterx]

yeah, i hated act 2 and i started to fall asleep at that bc it was also soooo long

[g_lovesbb]

I read on twitter JG was the one leading the standing ovations. But seeing her killing ‘Don’t Rain on My Parade’ 😤. Damn, still a racist tho 😒 and a bully I am like that gif.

[peddlestools]

I hate it here

the second lea walked on stage a twink in opera gloves leapt to his feet and the entire audience followed with a standing ovation
- ✨olivia rodrigo/monkeypox updates✨ (@himerdos) September 7, 2022

[duchello]

I really shouldn't laugh at this but i did, oh boy i did

[loonyluna26]

Was Groff the one in the gloves

[peddlestools]

Can't stand this shiksa playing a Jewish character again

[automaticpeople]

Is this sarcasm, because she is actually Jewish?

[peddlestools]

Wait seriously I thought this was a Rachel brosnahan situation

[automaticpeople]

Her full name is Lea Michele Sarfati. Her dad is Jewish.