Lea Michele
1. Sarfati is her real last name.
2. She is an only child.
3. Her first Broadway show is Les Miserables where she played young Cosette/Eponine & understudied young Gavroche.
4. She sang Angel of Music in her audition for Les Mis.
5. She got in trouble one time when she was playing young Eponine in Les Mis.
6. She sang Paper Moon in her audition for Ragtime.
7. She slept in the theater twice while she was in Spring Awakening.
8. She has always been a soprano. She was already hitting high B when she was in Ragtime.
9. She sang On My Own and Not For The Life Of Me in her audition for Glee.
10. She got so sick one time in Ragtime and threw up before she stepped on stage.
11. She had no idea what Fiddler on the Roof was about until she became a part of it.
12. She has 19 cousins in just one side.
13. She and her mom left her dad and went to Canada for Ragtime.
14. Audra would come up to her, wrap her hands around her waist and see how much her diaphragm was expanding. (Ragtime)
15. When she was in Fiddler, at first, the MD didn’t believe that she was high soprano.
16. She had to choose between Spring Awakening and Les Mis.
17. She knew who Adam Lambert was even before he joined AI.
18. Lea’s favorite story(or one of, I think) during SA involves Jonathan, Phoebe and a mic. xD
19. She had a yorkie named Mia.
20. One time, Lea got so sick during Christmas because she ate too much at her aunt’s house
21. She now works with Loreal.
22. Cheese used to be her guilty pleasure.
23. She wanted to play the role of Evelyn in Ragtime.
24. Lea’s first kiss was with Dan Nathel. Dan: “Do you wanna do it again?” Lea: “Yes!”
25. Lea was a champion debater and in the volleyball team back in high school.
26. Her first on stage kiss was with Gavin Creel and Jonathan loves this story.
27. If you want to impress her, don’t wear tighty whities because she thinks its awful.
28. She was embarrassed of her last name so during her audition in Les Mis, she said her name was Lea Michele.
29. One time, she raided her parents’ liquor cabinet and mixed vodka drinks then she refilled the bottle with water and put it back in the freezer, so it froze. Then she told her parents, “I don’t know, the vodka must have frozen”.
30. She was accepted in NYU but she chose to continue working instead of going to college.
31. Her first crush is Jonathan Taylor Thomas.
32. She loves hiking.
33. She dated John Lloyd Young, Landon Beard and Theo Stockman.
34. She thinks that the perfect date would be staying at home, cooking, watch a movie, and just relaxing.
35. She says that the top 3 flirts in the SA cast are Remy, Skylar and herself xD
36. Her twitter is @msleamichele.
37. When she was in Ragtime, they didn’t really ay much attention to her but she took it very seriously.
38. Lea’s stripper name is Lola Magnolia. She said its like your cat and your street. haha!
39. She had 2 callbacks for Ragtime.
40. She said it was actually hard(when she auditioned for Ragtime) because she had to do the accent.
41. She told her agent that she wanted to stop theater for a while coz she wanted to have a normal HS experience.
42. Though she stopped working, she did the workshops of Spring Awakening through high school.
43. When she joined Fiddler, she was in her Senior Year, 17 turning 18.
44. The first broadway show she watched was Camelot, but she fell asleep.
45. August 30th is the date of their flight to Toronto, Canada for Ragtime.
46. When she first auditioned for Eponine for the tour she didn’t get it because she wasn’t vocally ready.
47. Richard Jay Alexander was the one who offered her the role of Eponine(Hollywood Bowl).
48. She also auditioned for Richard for the role of young Cosette.
49. She played Anne Frank in Washington, DC. She said that the Jew side of her family was very happy.
50. In Fiddler, she played Shprintze and understudied Hodel.
Facts about Lea Michele
51. When Lea arrived in LA, her goal was to guest star in Grey’s Anatomy.
52. Lea did her workshops for SA in The Atlantic and also Lincoln Center.
53. SHE HAS THE BEST LAUGH EVER.
54. She is(or was) obsessed with Smart Water.
55. She sang two songs for her SA audtion. One is called “I Don’t Know How To Love Him”.
56. She is obsessed with Zac Efron.
57. Her favorite vegan foods are dark chocolate and vegan cupcakes.
58. Lea and the cast of SA had a GAP billboard located in Times Square.
59. Her favorite movie is Funny Girl. Another one is Almost Famous.
60. She got the names of her cats from ‘Hair’.
61. The first time she slept on the theater, she did it with Jon Groff and JGJ. The 2nd time was just her and Jon.
62. She was home schooled for a few years while working on Ragtime.
63. She would turn gay for Megan Fox.
64. Her parents met when they were 14 years old and they had never been apart.
65. She used to work in a Bat Mitzvah dress shop.
66. Lea did the workshops of SA in between Ragtime and Fiddler.
67. Her favorite book is “Girl With The Pearl Earring”.
68. Her last performance of SA was on May 18, 2008.
69. Her favorite singer is Alanis Morissette.
70. She decorated her SA dressing room with furniture from Urban Outfitters.
71. When they slept in the theater, they hid under the table behind the curtain so that the guard who checks the rooms every night won’t see them.
72. She played Sammi in Third Watch when she was 14.
73. When they slept in the theater, they went to the basement to see if the rumor about the cockroaches was true(and it was).
74. She got to play young Eponine when she was young, then played Eponine when she got older.
75. Her favorite day was Thrusday because people get paid on Thursdays(when she was still in broadway).
76. She wanted to play Elphaba(and I think she still wants to..haha) on Broadway.
77. Nancy Carson was her first agent.
78. She auditioned a lot of times and proved to Michael that she was the one who should play Wendla.
79. Brian Stokes Mitchell, Marin Mazzie, Peter Friedman & Audra McDonald had taught her so much of what she knows now.
80. She says that her time with them was her education.
81. She got offered the role Eponine before she even knew that SA was going to Broadway.
82. One day, Lea just found a note on her desk from Michael saying, ‘We should see Lea’s breasts, then she told him that she got his not then he said, ‘Are you okay with that? You’re okay with it?, We’ll do that tonight’.
83. She didn’t think that showing her breasts on stage was that big of a deal.
84. She is now working with Candie’s.
85. Her favorite(or one of)designer is Oscar de la Renta.
86. Lea said that Bill T. Jones is the scariest man in the entire world.:)))
87. She was asked “What is the first thing that you do when you look in the mirror?” that’s where he choreography of Mama Who Bore Me came from.
88. She enjoys baking in her spare time.
89. She booked her first broadway show on April 6th which was Les Mis.
90. Lea said they’ve watched Tony Awards(the year they won) in slow motion.
91. Birthday: August 29, 1986.
92. Birthplace: Bronx, New York.
93. Parents: Marc and Edith Sarfati.
94. Jonathan Groff is her best friend in the entire world.
95. She actively supports PETA.
96. When she was young, she used to pretend like she won an award and make speeches.
97. Workshops/Readings(some): Wuthering Heights, Samson and Delilah, Nero, etc.
98. She felt nervous when she was told that she was doing a one woman show at Feinstein’s.
99. When she was young, she was the one who says “batteries not included” in commercials(not all though, I think?)
100. Cory Monteith was her boyfriend untilhe was found dead in a hotel room because of a drug overdose.
