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Gleecap: "Journey" (1.22)

To understand the hour-long insanity-fest that was the season finale of Glee, one first has to understand Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’.”...  read more

Gleecap: "Funk" (1.21)

Just when you thought Glee couldn’t get any more ridiculous than a mother-daughter “Poker Face” duet, it breaks out choreographed pregnant teenagers and Matthew Morrison seducing Jane Lynch. But instead of pulling us out of the action like any good ridiculousness does, it just makes us rubberneck—like a particularly bad car crash—so we miss a lot of what makes it good....  read more

Gleecap: "Theatricality" (1.20)

Let’s start with the end of the episode first, where a mother-daughter duo sang the words “bluffin’ with my muffin” and tried to sell it as a moving and believable moment. Glee is no stranger to ridiculousness, but that went straight past the line of Ridiculousness and landed on Uncomfortable....  read more

Spring Awakening Co-Stars Groff and Michele Reunite on Fox's Glee

Here’s your daily dose of theater nerd news: Yesterday, EW’s Hollywood Insider announced that actor Jonathan Groff will appear in a few upcoming episodes of Fox’s new hit drama Glee. Groff, who starred for several years in the anachronistic Broadway revival of Frank Wedekind’s Spring Awakening (and recently appeared in Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock) will play the leader of Vocal Adrenaline, the unmatched rival of McKinley High’s fledgling glee club....  read more

Lea Michele: No Business Like Show Business

Hometown: Tenafly, N.J. Show: Glee For Fans Of: Wicked, High School Musical, Freaks and Geeks Listening to Lea Michele gush over her new role in Glee—Fox’s much-hyped new series about a high-school musical ensemble—is eerily similar to witnessing the jazz-handed optimism of her character Rachel Berry, a teenaged vocalist with a scorchingly sunny disposition. In fact, Michele openly admits that playing the diva-in-training doesn’t require much acting at all. “I definitely have a lot of Rachel in me—her level of projection is pretty much the same in a small classroom as it would be on a Broadway stage,” she says....  read more