My Son ‘Hysterically’ Cried When He Heard Me Sing

Actress Lea Michele has made her triumphant return to the Broadway stage within the Funny Girl revival, although her son wasn’t as enthused.

“[Starting Funny Girl was] the first time I’ve gone back to work [since he was born],” Michele, 36, stated throughout a Friday, September 30, look on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon about son Ever, 2. “I’ve been home with him for the past two years, 100 percent, and now I’m back to work.”

She added: “So, my singing coach was like, ‘You could try to incorporate what you’re doing, like, try to incorporate him into it, so he can be a part of it and you can be not away from him as much.’”

The Glee alum determined to take her vocal coach’s suggestion and requested her husband, Zandy Reich, to carry their son into the room “the other day” whereas she was going over her warmup workout routines.

“I hit some, like, high note and [Ever] started hysterically crying,” Michele recalled to host Jimmy Fallon. “I’m like, ‘OK, that was a big fail!’”

The Spring Awakening star — who welcomed her child boy in August 2020 — famous that she enjoys singing Ever lullabies earlier than he goes to sleep, providing to sing ballads by Céline Dion or Barbra Streisand. However, the toddler is just taken with listening to both “The Green Grass Grows” or the theme songs to Peppa Pig and Daniel Tiger. “That one’s a real tough one for parents,” she quipped on Friday. “Just the same thing over and over.”

Michele — who married Reich, 39, in 2019 — even recorded a lullaby album, Forever, that she devoted to her toddler.

“Being a mom is one of the greatest gifts and I love being Ever’s mom. It was so special making my lullaby album as a tribute to him,” the New Year’s Eve actress solely instructed Us Weekly in May. “I wanted to sing songs that were special and important to me that had special meanings behind them. Those songs were songs that I listen to when I first found out I was pregnant and it’s so beautiful to get to sing them for my son now.”

Despite eight songs on the album to select from to croon Ever to sleep, Michele admitted that her child boy is “very picky” in terms of the music choice.

“I love singing ‘Here Comes The Sun’ [by the Beatles] and ‘Yellow’ by Coldplay to him,” the actress instructed Us, earlier than noting that Ever prefers “Twinkle, Twinkle” and “Happy Birthday.”

While Ever is specific when it comes to what he desires to listen to the Scream Queens alum sing, she’s discovered an adoring viewers whereas enjoying Fanny Brice in Funny Girl.

“It’s been so awesome,” Michele gushed on Friday, after Fallon, 48, complimented her six standing ovations throughout her debut efficiency. “It’s been great. … To be back [on Broadway] and to be in the show that I’ve loved for so many years, but I’m such a fan of this production [with] this incredible cast, this incredible score.”