Thursday, August 4, 2011

Keppy-Scratcher

The news that Lauren Ambrose of "Six Feet Under" fame will headline the Broadway Revival of "Funny Girl" has left the SJG in a state of shock and hurt feelings.  No one does Babs like Babs.  No one except the SJG.  Why they didn't ask me to audition is as big a keppy-scratcher as picking a red-headed shiksa to play Fanny Brice.  So Ambrose is a trained opera singer. So she fronts her own band.  This snub is going to take me a while to get over.  Casting Lea Michele of "Glee" would've been the no-brainer.  Maybe she was busy?  Either way, when the show opens at the Ahmanson Theatre Jan. 15, before heading to Broadway, expect to see the SJG in the front row, singing along, bitterly.  This is just all kinds of wrong. 
Posted by Carol Starr Schneider at 8:19 AM

2 comments:

  1. JOHNAugust 4, 2011 at 5:19 PM

    This is a shonda! Lea yes! Lauren no!

    P.S. We'll see this together, of course!

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  2. Carol Starr SchneiderAugust 4, 2011 at 5:50 PM

    Absolutely!!!! Life's candy and the sun's a ball of butter... don't send around a cloud to rain on my parade!

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