{"id":57852,"date":"2025-11-23T15:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T15:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/broadway-baby-lea-michelle-is-back-where-it-all-began\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T15:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T15:13:07","slug":"broadway-baby-lea-michelle-is-back-where-it-all-began","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/broadway-baby-lea-michelle-is-back-where-it-all-began\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadway baby: Lea Michelle is back where it all began"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>In 1965, the original musical &#8220;Funny Girl&#8221; was playing at Broadway&#8217;s Winter Garden Theatre, starring someone who knew her way around a song. That same year, a guy named Joe Allen opened a place a few blocks away. It was the place to be for Broadway stars like Al Pacino and a host of others. Plus, they served a mean cheeseburger.<\/p>\n<p>The cheeseburgers are still there, and so are Broadway&#8217;s elite. Lea Michele has been coming here since her Broadway debut in the 1990s. &#8220;I just love this place so much,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p>And what would she eat? &#8220;A burger. I mean, it&#8217;s always so good, so good here, oh my God,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p>But when we met her at Joe Allen&#8217;s, she wasn&#8217;t in a burger mood, because she had a show to do. Lea Michele is currently starring in the musical &#8220;Chess.&#8221; In the show, she plays a brilliant strategist for two world champion chess players (played by Aaron Tveit and Nicholas Christopher).\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/22\/1cbf3917-993d-4578-8b37-5d037d0ed2bd\/thumbnail\/620x349\/b79e87047810801a94843f45ddde27cf\/lea-michele-1920.jpg#\" alt=\"lea-michele-1920.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/22\/1cbf3917-993d-4578-8b37-5d037d0ed2bd\/thumbnail\/620x349\/b79e87047810801a94843f45ddde27cf\/lea-michele-1920.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/22\/1cbf3917-993d-4578-8b37-5d037d0ed2bd\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/10c5a00b7757aceee7eb31bb0a939ce3\/lea-michele-1920.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Lea Michele returns to Broadway in the revival of &#8220;Chess.&#8221; \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                &#8220;Chess: The Musical&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Chess&#8221; is a love triangle, a spectacle, and a chance for the stars to raise the roof at the Imperial Theatre \u2013 the same place where Michele made her Broadway debut in 1995 in &#8220;Les Miserables,&#8221; at the age of eight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her parents weren&#8217;t show biz people \u2013 Dad owned a deli \u2013 and before she auditioned, they had no clue their daughter could sing. &#8220;And as we were leaving, I turned to my Mom and I was like, &#8216;I&#8217;m gonna get this. I think I&#8217;m gonna get this,'&#8221; Michele recalled. &#8220;And she said, &#8216;Things like that don&#8217;t happen to people like us.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In this case, Mom was wrong: Michele got the part, and went on to even greater heights in the musical &#8220;Spring Awakenings,&#8221; and later became a household name in the hit TV show &#8220;Glee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She hit a few bumps along the way, among them a difficult pregnancy with her first child in 2020, and flak on social media that she acted like a diva back in the &#8220;Glee&#8221; days. But things looked up in 2023, when she was asked to step into the shoes of her idol Barbra Streisand, and take over <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/lea-michele-funny-girl-broadway-fanny-brice\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">a struggling revival of &#8220;Funny Girl.&#8221;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>She said, &#8220;I think that we all grow as we get older. It&#8217;s hard being in an industry where there is such a spotlight on these phases and times in your life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And what was the pressure like to take over &#8220;Funny Girl&#8221;? It was the first time that I was really sort of in the spotlight after everything that had happened to me personally,&#8221; Michele said. &#8220;I wanted to finally show everyone that I could play this part, and play her really well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed__float-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-left embed--size-small\" data-ads=\"{\" extrawordcount=\"\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/23\/83c96970-e804-4a29-837e-eafb0fc96099\/thumbnail\/620x465\/dc1fb2ab3944d40253b420a282283552\/lea-michele-funny-girl-getty-1497766462.jpg#\" alt=\"The 76th Annual Tony Awards - Show \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/23\/83c96970-e804-4a29-837e-eafb0fc96099\/thumbnail\/620x465\/dc1fb2ab3944d40253b420a282283552\/lea-michele-funny-girl-getty-1497766462.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/23\/83c96970-e804-4a29-837e-eafb0fc96099\/thumbnail\/1240x930\/33916cb03761a77b9a3c43bcc8606061\/lea-michele-funny-girl-getty-1497766462.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">&#8220;Funny Girl&#8221; star Lea Michele performs during the 76th Annual Tony Awards, June 11, 2023, in New York City.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Theo Wargo\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Long story short, Michele killed it, and turned a sinking show into a hit, despite suffering a miscarriage during her run. And when she was approached about doing &#8220;Chess,&#8221; she told producers that having another baby came first.\u00a0 &#8220;And so my husband and I ended up doing IVF, which was in its own right very intense and challenging,&#8221; she said. &#8220;But you know, we got pregnant and had our daughter, who is wonderful and wild. And then they, you know, said, &#8216;Would you like to do the show?&#8217; &#8216;Absolutely!'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, the 39-year-old mother of two is back at the Imperial Theatre, where it all began, serving up another knockout performance with a side of gratitude. <\/p>\n<p>I asked, &#8220;What do you think that eight-year-old girl would think, back in that same theatre?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that she&#8217;d be so proud, and she would just say, &#8216;Thank you,&#8217; &#8217;cause that&#8217;s all she wanted,&#8221; Michele said. &#8220;And it&#8217;s still what I want. My love for what I do was definitely reignited during &#8216;Funny Girl.&#8217; And I&#8217;m very grateful for that. But I&#8217;m so happy to be here, and to be home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>To hear Lea Michele perform &#8220;Someone Else&#8217;s Story,&#8221; from &#8220;Chess: The Musical,&#8221; click on the video player below:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-youtube-video embed--float-none embed--size-large embed--type-video\">\n<p>\n    <iframe class=\"embed__content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/w7K-NtCoYIo?autoplay=0&amp;rel=1&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com&amp;playsinline=1\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" title=\"Lea Michele Sings &quot;Someone Else's Story&quot; | CHESS on Broadway\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n  <\/p><figcaption>\n    <span class=\"embed__caption\"><br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/w7K-NtCoYIo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lea Michele Sings &#8220;Someone Else&#8217;s Story&#8221; | CHESS on Broadway<\/a><\/cite> by<br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@ChessBway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CHESS on Broadway<\/a><\/cite> on<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube<\/a><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>WEB EXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/extended-interview-lea-michele\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Watch an extended interview with Lea Michele (Video)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-video embed--type-content_video is-video embed--float-left embed--size-medium\"><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/extended-interview-lea-michele\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>          <span class=\"embed__icon\"><br \/>\n            <svg viewbox=\"0 0 32 32\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n              <use xlink:href=\"#icon-video\"\/>\n            <\/svg><br \/>\n          <\/span><\/p>\n<p>          <span class=\"embed__headline\">Extended interview: Lea Michele<\/span><\/p>\n<p>          <span class=\"embed__video-duration\">28:36<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr\/>\n<p><strong>For more info:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>Story produced by John D&#8217;Amelio. 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