Lea Michele belts I'm The Greatest Star in behind-the-scenes Funny Girl footage

Lea Michele showed off her vocal chops in an evocative behind-the-scenes montage from her Funny Girl rehearsals. An intertitle teases the audience: 'A STAR RETURNS,' referring to the fact Funny Girl will be Lea's first time back on Broadway since the 2006 musical Spring Awakening. Lea's triumph: The current Broadway revival of Funny Girl opened this April with Beanie Feldstein, who received a rash of stinging reviews and has been replaced by Lea The voice: Now, ahead of Lea officially entering the show on September 6, the revival's Twitter has offered a sneak peek of her rendition of I'm The Greatest Star Big shoes to fill: The song used in the latest sneak peek is inextricably associated with the show's original leading lady Barbra Streisand Preparation: The new video includes an audio recording of Lea singing the bridge of the song accompanied solely by a rehearsal pianist Plot details: Fanny Brice, a real-life vaudeville star and the lead character of the show, sings the song early in the storyline while desperately attempting to land a job as a chorus girl Back at it: An intertitle teases the audience: 'A STAR RETURNS,' referring to the fact Funny Girl will be Lea's first time back on Broadway since the 2006 musical Spring Awakening Connections: Incidentally Spring Awakening, which made Lea a stage star, was directed by Michael Mayer, who is also at the helm of this Funny Girl revival The sneak peek includes Lea singing I'm The Greatest Star over several snatches of footage of her rehearsing the musical numbers. Ready or not: The sneak peek includes Lea singing I'm The Greatest Star over several snatches of footage of her rehearsing the musical numbers Sizzling heartthrob: A couple of the clips also include her dashing leading man Ramin Karimloo, who could be seen sweeping her up into his arms Who's who: Ramin, who was the lead in Andrew Lloyd Webber's flop sequel to The Phantom Of The Opera, is Fanny Brice's first husband Nicky Arnstein in Funny Girl Making it happen: Meanwhile Lea, who sang multiple Funny Girl songs on Glee in the style of Streisand several years ago, is playing Fanny herself Jared Grimes can be glimpsed in the sneak peek shaking a leg with Lea in the role of Fanny's pal Eddie Ryan, a dancer she befriends on the way up. Into the breach: After the drubbing Beanie got from the critics, it was announced this July that Lea would be replacing her in September By the way: Until Lea's takeover in September, Fanny is being played by Julie Benko, who served as Beanie's understudy and earned praise online when she stepped into the part However the producers and a representative for Beanie told People in a joint statement: 'The producers of Funny Girl were not blindsided by Beanie's social post.'