Glee. Ohhhhh Glee. If you haven't heard of or seen the show Glee, you're living under a rock....underwater....on Mars. It seems that Glee is bigger than Miley Cyrus and Justin Beiber combined. And this audience isn't tweens. These are very well dressed, mature...as in ...in their late thirties to early forties, a lot of them are gay and all of them LOVE Glee. They were glued to their seats, they didn't even leave to pee or get a beer. They jumped, they cheered, they sasheed their way home. Never in a million years did I think I'd see men and women in their eighties tonight, but there they were, a bunch of them. And whoa what a white crowd. Maybe that's just Phoenix, but there was noooo color in that audience. So what did I learn? I learned that my 150 people could buy over 5,000 dollars worth of merch in half an hour. And I learned that Corey Moneith, the guy who plays Finn, the football player, is a total sweetheart and a sucker for attention and hauled his co-star, Amber, the black chick, up to my party for a little pop in. Totally caught us by surprise and then there was chaos! We dealt with it like the pros we are...but...come on guys....its time to stop pretending you can casually mingle with the crowd...you sold out an entire tour in an hour.
So they came, they signed things, and I had to push them out of there so I could finish my party...aka...hand out tickets. All in all, I would give the show a A+. The pipes on these kids! Its freakin amazing! Its one thing to see the TV show. On the TV show they are brilliant, but you know that they are recording the songs in studios with engineers and lip syncing over them on the show. Here it's live....and their THAT GOOD. Amazing. Broadway. Fantastic. I got chills so many times I lost count. Lea Michele is one of a kind.
Of course everyone from the production team was sweating bullets because supposedly all their heads are on the chopping block if anything goes wrong. Fox has so much money invested in this thing that tensions are riding high high hiiiiiigh. Lets hope they all walk away...richer than they already are???? and don't be surprised if "Glee the Movie" is in the works. This is television. Fox. they are gonna milk this for all its worth. And you would too if you were an executive watching this show tonight, everyone was standing and jumping and having a ball. Its like...a whole new side of karaoke. cuz lets not forget...thats what this show is. They even play Sweet Caroline, which I think ranks as the most sung karaoke song ever. Pretty cliche and a nice gab of sarcasm from the creators of the show.
So there you have it. Glee Live! Its a phenomenon. And its a beautiful show, both visually and musically. Everyone obviously has but so much work into this. And the production team they have is first rate...i mean....the lighting designer alone could be in the rock and roll hall of fame for the amount of big name bands he's worked for. But man were they nervous about Glee. ohhhhh the irony.
that's it folks, that's all I got.
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