A big, bright revival of the classic Broadway musical can’t fix the miscasting at its center.
Who is the pip with pizazz?
Who isall ginger and jazz?
Jared Grimes as Eddie Ryan and Beanie Feldstein as Fanny Brice in ‘Funny Girl’.Matthew Murphy
Her Fanny Brice lands at a lower altitude, though: both funny and girlish but never reallybig.
(He also wrote the revised book.)
Even Fanny is flummoxed by her immediate rise (“Where’s the suffering?
Where’s the hard knocks, the setbacks to learn from?")
ThisGirlneeds a force majeure, not a light breeze, to make it sing.Grade: B
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