Fanny get your runs, we coulda had Menzel as Brice?
How do you measure … measure yet another year withoutIdina Menzelas Fanny Brice?
On a recent episode ofWatch What Happens Live, theRentandWickedstar described how the pandemic rained on her parade.
Idina Menzel (left), who played Lea Michele’s mom on ‘Glee,’ almost starred in a revival of ‘Funny Girl’.Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty for Disney; Bruce Glikas/WireImage
“I was supposed to,” Menzel told hostAndy Cohenabout taking on the iconic role.
“But I always thought I’d be too old.
Yes, but it didn’t work out, COVID happened.”
What’s this “too old” business?
If Idina Menzel can defy gravity, what’s to stop her from defying age restrictions.
“Lea’s the right choice,” Menzel said of Michele.
Fanny Brice, Ms. Barbra Joan Streisand, at her Kennedy Center Honors tribute in 2008.
An experience she described as “daunting” and “horrifying.”
But things got truly horrifyingafterher performance.
And I said, ‘Yes I did, Ms. She said, ‘You were good,'" she recalled, mimicking Streisand.
“And then she got up and left.
I’ve since met her.
Since then, she’s been completely gracious,” Menzel continued.
“But that night, I thought, ‘Is that good?
Was that a good compliment or a bad compliment?'”
Then again, when’s the last time Barbra Streisand’s beenimpressed byanything?
