Don't Stop Believing...Hold On to That Feeling...

Wow, I just watched the pilot for Glee for the SECOND time...and the more I see it the more I fall in love with it. I was not surprised at all to find out that it was written by the same guys who did Popular on the WB a while back, which was/is one of my favorite shows on TV! The dark humor, interjected with some amazing singing really gets to me! It is so reminiscent of that last scene in Sister Act 2, which I love, and which happens to be my signature closing song when I DJ! My roommate asked me if it took me back to high school, and the truth is that it didn't because I was never truly harassed in high school very much. My freshman year I got the usual faggot, and such but after I joined the cheerleading squad and had all these girls backing me up, it all stopped. Besides I was a bit of a social floater, I hung out with every type of kid there was in high school, so I never felt bullied. I of course felt like an outcast till I came out, but what gay kid doesn't? The passion that these kids have in this show did bring me back to my days at Stagedoor where all these showtune queens were so passionate about musicals, and the weird thing is that most of us were ahead of our times. We were young teenagers that GOT the struggles of the characters in Chess, Nine, Sweeney Todd (well as much as a teenager can) but we were really into the message that musicals have, the social commentary on the war in Hair, the struggles of growing up in Nine, the dark side of the world in Sweeney Todd, they all have deep emotions in them and we got them...that was the passion that I saw in those kids performing in Glee, and the message of doing what you love is what I got out of it, and I fully intend on taking that spirit with me.