As foreshadowed on Glee not so way back, Lea Michele shined on a Broadway stage enjoying Barbra Streisand’s well-known character Fanny Brice — and Darren Criss was there within the viewers to cheer her on. The two former castmates had a mini McKinley High reunion backstage at the Funny Girl revival in New York City, as revealed Wednesday (Oct. 5) in a candy photograph shared on Michele’s Instagram after that evening’s present.
In the photograph, Michele — wanting glamorous in a black blazer and gold hoop earrings — stands in entrance of a black stage curtain with one arm wrapped lovingly round Criss and the opposite round his spouse, filmmaker Mia Swier. “The amount of times this guy has heard me sing Don’t Rain On My Parade,” she joked in her caption. “I love you.”
Indeed, the actress not solely sings “Don’t Rain On My Parade” each evening in Broadway’s Funny Girl revival — wherein she’s starred since taking on the position of Fanny from Beanie Feldstein in September — but it surely was additionally her character Rachel Berry’s signature music on Glee.
One of the important thing plot factors within the TV present (which wrapped in 2015, seven years earlier than the next situation occurred in actual life) concerned Rachel touchdown the position of Fanny in a fictional Funny Girl revival on Broadway. Some of her previous schoolmates, together with Criss’ Blaine Anderson, come to see her on her opening evening, as does Coach Sue Sylvester, performed by Jane Lynch — who was additionally in the actual life Funny Girl revival solid, however stepped away from the present simply earlier than Michele joined.
Based on the Scream Queens alum’s Instagram submit, plainly life actually does imitate artwork. Criss isn’t the one one in all her previous Glee collaborators to have attended the present, although. Both Jonathan Groff and Glee creator Ryan Murphy have been within the crowd at the Michele’s opening evening, the place she acquired not one, not two, however 4 standing ovations, based on Deadline.
See Lea Michele pose with Darren Criss backstage at Broadway’s Funny Girl beneath:
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