Anyone as horrified at Gwyneth and Lea doing Chicago songs on Glee?? — Page 2

I liked it.

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The thing about Glee that should make ANY musical theater fan or performer cringe is that it tells America is that is ALL IT TAKES.

Performing songs that badly is ALL IT TAKES. You don't have to be any better. Don't have to dance well. Don't have to sing well. Everyone is autotuned. It's legal for high schools to do stuff like this... Recreate original choreography. Create these mashups. Cast women in men's roles. Change lyrics to Broadway showtunes. GLEE TELLS AMERICA THIS IS OKAY.

And what the nail on the coffin is, it's supported by the influx of Broadway performers on the series. By them doing the show it says, "we think this is okay too. tee hee." when in reality they just want to be on TV so they can come back to New York and get better parts. That's the only reason Broadway performers do TV work.

Glee is offensive. Maybe they should do an episode where they do the movie version of Grease and get sued by Paramount for $20,000. THAT's the reality of high schools in this country. How about some REALISTIC story lines about high school performers. Or getting really excited to do something like Wicked and realizing that oh, the rights aren't available. Or maybe even doing it anyway and then getting SUED.

Glee represents fantasy la-la land, which is fine, but they don't make it clear that it's doing so. It tells America that this is normal. Because Americans believe everything they see on TV.

IT NEEDS TO BE STOPPED.

what do you mean "this is all it takes"? portraying, and sounding appropriately like, an actual high school's glee club membership might sound - albeit without the autotone (which is standard practice in the music world, but that is another kettle of fish)?

Hmm.. Cynic much? Perhaps performs are excited that the show is opening up the world of musical theatre to a new audience.. same as high school musical.. and think that THAT is a great thing?

So the show should ignore that creating mash ups and recreating choreography and 'looks' is something that EVERY school does? Particular if they don't have the resources of an actual choreographer? They should just IGNORE that fact? Then you would blast them for being too 'professional'. By your same logic, no teenage character should ever be depicted as having sex, cursing, drinking, cutting class, talking back, skipping class...

I guess some people missed my second post where I acknowledged my use of the melodramatic word "horrified'. Yes I realize there are truly horrifying events throughout the world daily.

It's a show about highschoolers singing. In most glee clubs, community theater groups, etc. there are always the few extraordinary singers(who get the leads), while the rest are decent, carry a tune singers.

The performers on Glee are professional, trained singers. Most of the performances are really good (some better than good)but... it feels like more often than not, the attitude coming through is one of "look at me! i can outdo Barbra!" (guess who)...or"look at me! i am more Tina than Tina". (and let's not even talk about Happy Days Are Here Again"). I dunno...it just all sometimes seems less than homage and more a conceit.

Yet I continue to watch because there is certainly enough entertainment to be found, including some enjoyable musical numbers.

Ask ANY high schooler in America if they are regularly autotuned during live performance. I dare you.

Ask ANY high schooler if they know that Glee is a fictional TV show. I dare you. Ask ANY high schooler if they get a $25k budget to perform one song just for class. I dare you. Seriously, this can go on all day.

My high school did Grease and added You're the One That I Want while recreating the film choreography. You know what happened? Nothing. Well, it was the biggest money-maker the drama department ever had, but other than that, nothing. It may have been illegal and it certainly wasn't very creative, but it wasn't due to the faults of the students. I get what you're trying to say, but I'm not sure Glee owes anyone the responsibility of illustrating the legalities of copyright laws, which are essentially the responsibilities of the teachers and administration, NOT the students or the producers of Glee.

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Scripted television is usually all far fetched. That's just what it is, to make it more interesting.

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The only far fetched thing my high school did was put 'No Bad News' in The Wizard of Oz.

It didn't end well...

Wow. It's amazing that you all have such disrespect for the writers of these Broadway shows.

You're lucky your school didn't get caught.

Well, I hope you all are ready answer questions that MTI, Tams, et all have when I report this thread to them. :)

"What's MTI gonna do? Water board us?"

You laugh, but it's something I could see the R&H organization doing.

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Mmm kay. And we'll just wait to see what happens with anonymous reports about anonymous productions.

LOL! That explains out 75 person cast in The Wizard of Oz!

Clearly "reality" is not the basis of this show. If it were, every week until sectionals they'd be rehearsing the same damn songs over and over again.

To the original topic, Lea's singing in nowadays was possibly the least grating its been thus far.

As to illegality of high school productions, I once heard of my old high school adding a MASSIVE ensemble of fairy tale characters to Into the Woods, they literally had a Shrek wandering around. I reported said production and MTI didn't seem to care

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Video taping Broadway shows, stealing from grocery stores, raping small children, murdering people, and embezzling are all enjoyed by a lot of people too.

That doesn't make it right.

The Nazi party was enjoyed by a lot of people as well. As was Hitler as a leader of their country. If the war had ended differently, he'd have gone down in history as a revolutionary great person.

Again, just because things are enjoyed by the masses, it doesn't make them right.