Tickets To Lea Michele’s ‘Funny Girl’ Broadway Performance Surge Above $2,500

“Funny Girl” ticket prices have skyrocketed with the news that Lea Michele would be the new Fanny Bryce.

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Michele replaced Beanie Feldstein as the show’s production team decided to take a new direction.

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She will resume on September 6th, and the most expensive tickets currently go for $2500.

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The show was very successful in April, grossing about $1.2 million per week, per the Broadway League.

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It went down to about $700,000, and fans started to lose interest.

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Many believed that the decline in sales made the production team take a new direction with the show.

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It was Michele’s dream to revive “Funny Girl” long before she was given the role.

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Ticket sales for the show increased noticeably after the announcement of Michele as Fanny.

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Michele left the spotlight in 2020 after her ex-costar accused her of traumatic microaggressions.

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