Lea Michele’s ‘Funny Girl’ tickets now $2,500 after Beanie Feldstein’s exit

Lea Michele is one common lady.

The “Glee” alum, 35, is moving into the position of Fanny Brice in Broadway’s revival of “Humorous Woman” following unique star Beanie Feldstein’s departure.

Michele shall be starring within the stage manufacturing beginning Sept. 6, and tickets for her present have already skyrocketed.

In accordance with ticket-selling firm SeatGeek, seats to see the musical at New York Metropolis’s August Wilson theater are going for $570 to $2,500.

These costs additionally don’t embody the hefty $500 service payment.

Feldstein, 29, introduced that she was leaving the play earlier-than-expected on July 31 — reasonably than her unique exit on Sept. 25.

Sources instructed Web page Six on July 11 that she was “mainly fired” earlier than quitting the undertaking. Her understudy Julie Benko will carry out till Michele begins her run later this fall.

Stubs for July and August are going for $69, with weekday reveals promoting for simply $49. 

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Tickets for Michele’s time on “Humorous Woman” are already promoting for over $2,000 a pop.
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“A dream come true is an understatement. I’m so extremely honored to affix this wonderful forged and manufacturing and return to the stage taking part in Fanny Brice on Broadway. See you September sixth,” Michele wrote in a press release on her Instagram earlier this week.

The “American Crime Story: Impeachment” star introduced her reasoning for leaving “Humorous Woman” in a candid publish on Sunday.

“Enjoying Fanny Brice on Broadway has been a lifelong dream of mine, and doing so for the previous few months has been an important pleasure and true honor,” Feldstein penned.

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The “Glee” star will start her run as Fanny Brice beginning on Sept. 6.
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Feldstein started her flip as Fanny Brice in “Humorous Woman” on the August Wilson Theatre on April 24, 2022.
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She continued: “As soon as the manufacturing determined to take the present in a distinct route, I made the extraordinarily tough resolution to step away prior to anticipated.”

“I'll always remember this expertise and from the underside of my coronary heart, I wish to thank each single one that got here to the August Wilson for the love and help you might have proven me and our wonderful forged and crew,” the “Booksmart” actress went on.

Feldstein then gushed over her expertise on the musical, noting: “The individuals I've had the nice pleasure of bringing Humorous Woman to life with each evening, each on and off the stage, are all remarkably proficient and distinctive people and I hope you proceed to affix them on Henry Road after I depart on July thirty first.”

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