Lea Michele's Funny Girl breaks all-time Broadway box office record with over $2M in ONE WEEK - Daily Mail

Lea Michele's Funny Girl has breached a Broadway all-time container bureau record.

The erstwhile Glee star, who took implicit the relation of Fanny Brice successful July, saved the amusement from critically panned prima Beanie Feldstein.

The Broadway revival's gross for the eight-performance ending December 18 was $2,005,696.80, which is the highest gross for the accumulation and for August Wilson Theatre, according to Just Jared.

Funny Girl broke the grounds antecedently acceptable by Mean Girls, which had a location grounds of $1,994,386 - from 2018.

Lea's archetypal show was connected September 6, aft taking implicit the relation from Beanie Feldstein.

After it was announced that Lea would measurement into the role, tickets for her amusement instantly skyrocketed.

Beanie announced she was leaving Funny Girl earlier than expected connected July 31 alternatively of September 25 - with understudy Julie Benko taking implicit until Lea's commencement successful September.

In July and August, tickets for the amusement were selling for lone $69, with week time shows for $49, according to Seat Geek.

After Lea's joining of the amusement was announced, tickets were going for $570 to $2,500, and not including the $500 work fee.

Although it was initially announced that Beanie would permission the amusement connected September 25, she fired up her Instagram successful mid-July and shocked her fans by declaring that she would successful information beryllium exiting the amusement aboriginal astatine the extremity of that month. 

It was claimed that Beanie recovered retired from Gawker that she was being replaced by Lea aft a drawstring of atrocious reviews, and was successful specified a authorities astatine being booted from her 'dream role' that she amazed the producers by publically quitting early. 

An wrong root dished to The Daily Beast that Beanie, whose older member is Jonah Hill, was 'basically fired' from the show.

However the producers and a typical for Beanie told People successful a associated statement: 'The producers of Funny Girl were not blindsided by Beanie's societal post.'

They continued: 'The producers decided to instrumentality the amusement successful a antithetic absorption and extremity Beanie's declaration connected September 25th, 6 months earlier than anticipated. A period aft that decision, Beanie decided it was champion for her to permission connected July 31st. The producers were alert of and successful enactment of her decision.'

The connection concluded: 'The producers and Beanie worked connected this unneurotic professionally, respectfully and graciously.'

The existent Funny Girl revival is directed by Michael Mayer, who won a Tony for the archetypal accumulation of Spring Awakening - the amusement that made Lea a Broadway star.

Beanie opened successful the amusement connected April 24 and received a disappointing captious response, including from the New York Times, whose theatre reviews utilized to beryllium capable to marque oregon interruption a amusement decades ago.

The New York Times reappraisal noted that the relation was sculpted astir Barbra's abilities and that July Styne composed the euphony truthful that 'only Barbra could sing it.'

Funny Girl was primitively a passionateness task for its shaper Ray Stark, who was joined to the precocious Fanny Brice's girl Frances Arnstein.

The amusement presented a fictionalized relationship of Fanny's emergence to fame successful the 1910s and her matrimony to Frances' father, the con antheral gambler Nicky Arnstein.

For her archetypal Broadway amusement arsenic a pb Barbra was moving with composer Jule Styne, lyricist Bob Merrill, publication writer Isobel Lennart and manager Garson Kanin.

She had already been a showstopper successful the Broadway amusement I Can Get It For You Wholesale and chopped a fewer albums but it was Funny Girl that made her a superstar.

The people produced 1 of her astir enduring hits - People - which became the rubric opus of her medium that dislodged the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night from fig one.

When the amusement opened connected Broadway it became a smash deed and received a rapturous effect for her show which she besides took to London.

Barbra played other Charlie Chaplin's lad Sydney - with whom she had an matter amid her matrimony to her archetypal hubby Elliott Gould.

She reprised her relation for the movie, which assembled Old Hollywood stalwarts similar manager William Wyler and cinematographer Harry Stradling.

Her starring antheral successful the movie was Omar Sharif, with whom she besides had an matter - and with whom she acceptable disconnected a ungraded erstwhile a inactive of 1 of their staged kisses for the movie went nationalist successful 1967, the twelvemonth of the Six-Day War betwixt Egypt and Israel.

The movie was the apical grosser of 1968, with Roger Ebert writing: 'The occupation with Funny Girl is astir everything but Barbra Streisand. She is magnificent.'

Although the movie led to a critically savaged sequel called Funny Lady successful 1975 the amusement has ne'er been revived connected the Great White Way before.

A Broadway revival was attempted successful 2011 with Lauren Ambrose arsenic Fanny but was yet scrapped implicit problems raising money.

However successful 2015 and 2016 a London accumulation with Sheridan Smith successful the rubric relation did negociate to go a runaway success.

The amusement went from a constricted engagement astatine the Menier Chocolate Factory to a longer tally astatine the Savoy Theatre that was past extended by fashionable demand.