Glee

Glee is a lovable comedy show about to enter its 5^th season. It fallows a high school show choir in Ohio through the year, it also is about the kids in that show choir and their lives as “normal” teenage kids, although to me I don’t find any of their situations “normal” with a handicapped person, teen pregnancy, gays, and lesbians all thrown in one. But who am I to judge what’s normal and what’s not?

Like I said Glee is all based around one show choir. But the differences in the show and show choir in real life vary quite a bit.

In the show they spend their class periods singing any upbeat, new, or popular song they want without the consent of their teacher, Will Schuester, and without any practice before hand, which is pretty miraculous if you ask me.  Their accompanist also just somehow knows what to play perfectly when they say “hit it.”  Actually in one episode where the piano player got fired he was going on a rant about how hard it was to work with “spoiled kids who point at you and say hit it” and how “het just expect him to know what song to play perfectly.” From one competition to the next, state, regional, national’s etcetera, their set list changes, as do their costumes and dance moves.

Now for a show all about show choir it couldn’t portray show choir to the non in-the-loop world more wrong! None of those things happen! At least not where I’m from. As a group we work on specific hit points on one move for hours upon hours, one song for days and days, and a whole show for months and months! We don’t perform random songs from the radio for each other and we don’t have a piano player who just knows every song there has ever been.  People spend late nights putting together our costumes for us and we perform at more than three competitions.

So when my hair dresser askes me “what activities are you in?” and I reply with “Show choir” with a big smile on my face and she reply’s with “Oh like Glee?” I will simply say “No. Not really,” because Glee is not like real show choir at all.