Jane Lynch is joining Beanie Feldstein in the first Broadway revival of the 1964 Barbara Streisand-led musical Funny Girl.
“When I was doingon Broadway, it just blew my heart and my mind open. I just loved it,” Lynch says. “I love being back onstage and I love being a part of that community. It’s such a vibrant, wonderful, long-standing institution.”
“I live in L.A. but I’ve been in New York several times since COVID hit and I missed it. I missed going to a play,” Lynch says. “It’s really wonderful to see people with their masks on and they’re vaccinated coming back into the theaters.”that she got the role thanks to her agent, who was working on it behind the scenes and didn’t tell her until “it was time to talk about doing it,” something she calls “brilliant.
“In the course of the musical, [Fanny Brice] doesn’t think she’s pretty, but there is absolutely not one thought in her head that stops her from going for what she wants to do, which is to be the greatest star,” Lynch says. “That’s the kind of confidence I think she was born with, but also I think that was nurtured by her mother.”charts the rise of real-life comedian and actress Fanny Brice and her relationship with professional gambler Nick Arnstein.
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