2017 Breakthrough: Beanie Feldstein of 'Lady Bird'

NEW YORK (AP) — Beanie Feldstein was a Broadway buff since she was a kid. She was obsessed with musicals, hung with the "theater crowd" in high school and spent years watching shows on the Great White Way. So when she was cast opposite Bette Midler in the revival of "Hello, Dolly," she had already hit a career milestone.

"It's like if my 7- or 9-, 10-, 14-year-old self knew that this was happening she would be hysterically crying," Feldstein said. "It just has always been my dream, and then to be there with Bette Midler, and David Hyde Pierce and Gavin Creel and Kate Baldwin who are all huge theater legends — if you are in that world, it's just like, everything I could have asked for."

The universe gave Feldstein even more in 2017.