Lea Michele
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290 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Lea Michele’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Like I was really given such great material. I was very, very fortunate and very privileged in the experience of Glee that I got to do a lot of really great stuff. I'm not blind to that. And doing literally all of Funny Girl on television was awesome. So it didn't feel so hard letting it go at that time. And then I heard rumors that it was coming back.
And at that point, I was really wanting to do it. It was sometime around 2018. Yeah, 2018. Mm-hmm. And I was like, well, I'm out guys. So see ya. So I got pregnant. I was so happy to be pregnant that again, I was like, okay, this wasn't meant to be like, I'm going to go watch a Dean and do it. And like, I'm going to have the time of my life. Like, you know, that's, it's going to be amazing.
And when I found out that it was going to be, you know, coming and how it was happening, I was like, this is amazing. I'm so happy that funny girl is coming to Broadway. And, um, you know, my journey of doing it was only meant to be on Glee. And like, that's beautiful. And I was very grateful for that. I went and I saw the show. I loved it.
Like I cried, you know, seeing these songs being sung on stage. And when I started to hear of, you know, potentially like coming into the show, I don't think I like even like grasped it because I had been kind of like possibly happening at so many points in my life until it was like, no, can you do it in four weeks? Yeah. And I was like, what?
I was at the park with my son staring at the Statue of Liberty exactly where Barbra Streisand rides on the boat while singing Don't Rain on My Parade. And I was like, okay. And I turned to my husband at the park. I hadn't been on Broadway in 15 years. And I was like, can we do this? And he was like, I've got you. Go and do this. And he's the greatest man.
And if it wasn't for his support, that's a whole other... That's another part of the book. And I was like, okay. Because... We had no playbook on how our family would kind of, you know. And I just dove right in. It was like I just knew what to do. And the same thing happened. But for some reason I was singing it differently than I did it on Glee. And I was doing it differently than it was on Glee.
I felt like I had... so much more to access now that I was a wife, now that I was a mother. And what I learned in the whole experience was that the universe wanted me to wait until I was married and until I had a child to truly understand Fanny's pull of not, of, of between love and fame.
And until I could learn that as a person, I wasn't supposed to play Fanny Bryce and, And I was the only person to play her on the stage to ever be a mom. Wow. And, like, Barbara had her son in between the show and the movie. But to play Fanny as a mother, like, it was, you know, I just needed that growth and that understanding. Right.
I prepared and prepared quietly in a studio all by myself with our director and our assistant director, um, who gave me so much support and freedom. I remember coming in and Michael Mayer, who's the director who I've known since I'm 13 years old, literally doing spring awakening together. Um, he was like, I just want you to, what, what comes from like here? Um, And I was like, are you ready?
I was like, sit down. And I was like climbing on ladders and jumping off things. I was like, this is what I want to do. And if we can't do it like this, then I don't want to do it. And he was like, we will do it like that. And they had to relight the show and restage parts of the show.
And the cast who had already worked so hard came back, did a whole other rehearsal process with me, a lighting, everything. And then I opened the show and I did it. And the greatest cast in the whole world, the most unbelievable support from that cast of Funny Girl from day one until the end, like they were so incredible, just opening their arms and their hearts to me.
It was the greatest professional experience that I've ever had in my life. I'm grateful to look back and like have the best memories with on stage and off. And I just loved it. It was unbelievable. My last night was crazy. Like it was just like I got really hard. Like, you know, I don't think the adrenaline faded by like six months in and I started to really feel like what it felt like.
My body hadn't done anything like that in a really long time. Um, you know, I, like I found that I had endometriosis halfway through and I was trying to get pregnant and I couldn't, and I had a lot of losses and you know, my, I'm older than I was when I was on Broadway before and I'm taking care of, my son was in the hospital, you know, halfway through the run as well.
And it's like life, life is happening while you're doing it and you need to show up and you need to do your best every night. And the people that are sitting in the audience, they don't know, they don't care. Um, You know, I mean, not that they don't care, but they don't know. They don't know. And they just want to see you do a great job and as they should, you know.
But it was it got very hard and I really started to miss, you know, my son started to get like, you know, when are you coming home?
And so it was just it was time and it was perfect. And it was unbelievable that last night. And I'm still just on such a high from it.
Thank you.
Yeah.
I'm a funny girl. I did seven shows. Um, but the tip of the norm is, is eight shows a week.
I think that like when you're looking at a show like Glee, it's pretty similar and just in the intensity. What gets really hard for me with Broadway is it's just the same material over and over again. At least with television, like you might be exhausted, but you're always having to sink your teeth into something new.
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