Tovah Feldshuh Marks 50 Years On Broadway With Dynamite 'Funny Girl' Role

LOADING ERROR LOADING Fifty years after making her Broadway debut, Tovah Feldshuh is literally kicking up her heels in one of the Great White Way’s hottest musicals once again. It’s a Jewish story, and in the world of Kanye and Kyrie, it’s very important that we’re telling a Jewish story, and standing up for some sense of truth about my particular religion and my particular ethnic background, of which I am very, very proud.” Lea Michele and Tovah Feldshuh in "Funny Girl," now on Broadway. So I have enough study, just in the accumulation of my career, to know this Jewish mother, and also take many of my cues from my European grandparents.” Feldshuh, a Broadway mainstay since making her debut in the 1973 musical “Cyrano,” joined “Funny Girl” with Michele in September. As for Michele, she’d been publicly angling to play Fanny Brice after performing numerous “Funny Girl” songs over the course of her six seasons on “Glee.” Her casting has had its own share of detractors: In 2020, Michele was at the center of a social media firestorm after several of her former co-stars came forward with accusations of diva behavior and on-set bullying. How do you want to be remembered?’ And she said: ‘I want them to know I’m funny.’ So I hope when I do the show, it will be funny as well as monumentally important in terms of the legal system of the U.S.” "My job is to engender hope in the audience for transformation," said Feldshuh, seen here at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.