Comedic actress Molly Shannon, who you probably know from her many years on Saturday Night Live, is being added to the list of Glee’s famous guest stars! She will be playing Brenda Castle, McKinley’s new “busty” 45-year-old astronomy teacher and badminton coach. Also, she’s a raging alcoholic and pill-popper. Yay! She sounds like a hilarious addition to McKinley’s supply of crazy sports coaches.
Her character will really be getting under Sue’s nails in the back nine, so expect a new passenger on the “Sue Sylvester Express. Destination: Horror.” Do you think we’ll be getting a showdown between the Cheerios and the badminton coaches? I hope so!
Sources have revealed to us that as of today, Shannon is not going to be singing in the episode, despite her frequent singing in SNL sketches when she was a series regular. Also, she has only been written into one episode to date, scheduled to air in May, but we might be seeing more of her if all goes well. Get on that, Molly Shannon fans!
According to some leaked casting calls for the back nine, we can expect to see a new character in Episode 1.17, titled “Laryngitis“, which will me filming from February 23rd to March 4th.
The character is named Shawn, and they’re casting people ages 18 to 25 for the guest star role. He’ll be a high school Senior who was injured and is now a paraplegic. He’s described as “a cute, funny jock type.” It’ll be interesting to see another paraplegic in the school since Artie has mentioned that he’s not the only kid in a wheelchair at the school, but we haven’t seen anyone else yet.
Also, in episode 15, “Home“, we’ll see Tracy Pendergrass, a 30 to 40 year old African American guy who is a hip and cool journalist and Peter Gow, who is a 40 something year old male Asian lawyer with a dry sense of humor. There are two laid back movers for an Ohio moving company, Leroy and Guy, who are both big, built dudes. Lastly, there’s a Nurse in a local hospital. She is sweet, pleasantly plump, and described as “very Ohio”.
… and this is why we love them. XD
Thanks to Cory Montieth (@frankenteen) for tweeting this with twitvid!
Update: Here’s another of them walking in slow motion. This time, they’re in costume. Pay special attention to what Amber and Chris are wearing… spoiler! Edit: It looks like Cory already deleted his tweet for the video, but hasn’t deleted it from twitvid yet. I bet someone gets in trouble for this! (Good thing I downloaded a copy of the video already! Hehe…)
According to Lea Michele and several other sources (including @UltimateGleeks), Idina Menzel is hard at work on the set of Glee as we speak!
It’s been officially confirmed that Idina is playing the coach of Vocal Adrenaline. She will be appearing early in the back nine and reprising her role for the season finale.
Rumors were rampant of what part she was to play, specifically rumors of her playing Rachel’s biological mother, for obvious reasons. There is an eerie resemblance between the two, and creator Ryan Murphy has taken note. But, as reported by Ausiello, it’s doubtful her character will turn out to be Rachel’s biological mother.
Another source claims that Idina and Matthew Morrison, who play the coaches of Vocal Adrenaline and New Directions respectively, will even have a make-out scene! I dunno, crazy enough to believe?! You decide.
Michael Ausiello of EW.com’s The Ausiello Files released even more Glee casting spoilers! He has really been on a roll lately. Here’s what he had to say about Idina Menzel’s role on Glee and the character of Kurt’s boyfriend in Season 2:
Question: It’s so obvious that Idina Menzel is going to turn out to be Rachel’s mom on Glee it isn’t even funny. —Joel Ausiello: Series creator Ryan Murphy, who acknowledges that the two share an almost spooky resemblance, isn’t ruling out such a twist. At least not completely. “I don’t think I’ll do that,” he says. “We wrote her part as a sort of Faye Dunaway of Network. She’s the female coach of Vocal Adrenaline. That’s what she plays.” Murphy says Menzel will appear in the first episode back on April 13 and then return for the regional showdown with New Directions in the season finale.
Question: Can you tell us anything else about Kurt’s boyfriend on Glee? —Andy Ausiello: Rumor has it he’ll be *n *h* *o***a** *e**.
It’s pretty easy to figure out the last spoiler. If you want to see it decrypted, highlight the following text:
[Rumor has it he’ll be on the football team.]
Michael Ausiello of EW.com’s The Ausiello Files spoke with Ryan Murphy just moments before Glee’s Golden Globe win! Maybe Murphy had been sipping on the champagne all evening, because he lot a LOT of spoilers slip! Here’s what he had to say about two of the new characters they’re going to cast and which celebs they’d like to have on the show!
* Kurt’s gonna get lucky. “We just announced we’re doing a nationwide search for the season 2 cast, and [a boyfriend for Kurt is] one of the three roles that we’re adding. And we’re going to make them a power couple. We’re not going to do the whole hiding in the shadows thing. We’re going to make them popular, and out and proud and glamorous. Like prom king and king. We’re doing the opposite of what’s been done.” But wait, there’s more: “We’re also casting sort of a Eve Harrington [from All About Eve] to kind of steal Rachel’s thunder a little. So those are two of the three.”
* He’s gonna keep us seeing stars. “We got Olivia [Newton-John],” he recounts. “She’s going to come on and do ‘Physical’ with Jane Lynch. Jennifer Lopez wants to do the show, so I’m going to meet with her. In the past couple of months, a lot of people are coming out saying they love the show and would I meet with them and write something. But I don’t want to stunt-cast too much, because I think the [musical] numbers are already so extravagant. If I do Jennifer, I would want her to be, like, a lunch lady. And [exec producer] Brad Falchuk? s obsessed with having Bruce Springsteen on the show, so I’m sure we’ll go after him at some point.”
Read more about the Madonna episode and Puck & Rachel (Puchel/Puckleberry) getting back together here:
Update: I talked to a source at Fox and they confirmed that Jennifer Lopez HAS accepted the offer to be a cafeteria lunch lady on Glee. I wish J Lo was a lunch lady at my school!
Michael Ausiello of EW.com’s The Ausiello Files recently talked to the Glee cast and got a few hints at what to expect in the back nine episodes. If you want to know some spoilers about Artina (Artie + Tina), Quinn’s pregnancy, Finn’s new sport interest, and “Project Redeem Terri”, then read on!
Question: What’s going on with my fave Glee couple, Artie and Tina? —Stephanie Ausiello: They say it’s always darkest before the dawn, and, to hear Jenna Ushkowitz (Tina) tell it, these two are nowhere near the dawn yet. “You will definitely see more conflict between Artie and Tina,” she says. “After the first 13 episodes, it was left like, ‘What’s going to happen?’ Fans will get a little resolution.” Yes, but will it be the resolution they want? “The episodes,” she promises, “just get better and better.” Read the rest of this entry »
It appears the Glee will be getting a whole episode in the back nine, showcasing some original music! Even though the show has been doing an amazing job with their covers, it’ll be fun to see what original songs they’ll be performing in the spring. Here’s what Ryan Murphy had to say to Billboard.com:
“I’ve had a lot of calls from songwriters, to the point where it’s kind of embarrassing and ridiculous,” he says. “So we’re writing an episode called ‘Original Song’ where the teacher asks the kids to write their own piece of music. Diane Warren is going to do two big ballads, and if it works, we’ll see what happens . . . but we won’t do it all the time.”
Also, Ryan Tedder, who’s in one of my personal favorite bands, OneRepublic, co-wrote the song “Halo” with Beyoncé. When Idolator.com asked him if he’d seen the mashup between “Halo” and “Walking on Sunshine” on Glee, he told Idolator.com:
“I did! Glee is actually my new addiction. I download every episode. They actually just approached me. Adam Anders, the guy who does all the music, approached me about two weeks ago to do original music for the next season. So I’m gonna be doing at least one song for the next season that’s original.”
I’m excited for some original tunes, aren’t you? :)
Michael Ausiello of EW.com’s The Ausiello Files has some fun spoilers from Glee’s Jane Lynch. Nothing major, but it’ll give you a few more reasons why the wait until April will be worth it.
Question: For the record, I totally agree with your assessment of the Golden Globe nominations — Jim Parsons and John Noble are disgustingly absent and it makes me angry. Okay, so onto my question: I am dying for some Glee scoop since I have to wait until April for new episodes! —Sara
Ausiello: The phrase Best. News. Ever. gets used a lot around these parts, but this truly is the Best. News. Ever: Jane Lynch’s campaign to snag a musical moment on the show has ended in victory! “I have read the first two episodes [of the back-nine] and I can tell you that I will be singing and dancing,” Lynch reveals. “I can’t tell you what I’m singing because it’s top-secret.” Just a little hint? Teases Lynch: “It’s a very cold song.” We wouldn’t have it any other way!
Question: As the mother of an absolutely beautiful and wonderful daughter with Down syndrome, I was thrilled to see the characters of Becky and Sue’s sister in Glee’s “Wheels” episode. Any chance these characters will be back? —Cathy
Ausiello: “I hear that that will happen, yes,” confirms Jane Lynch of her TV sis’ return. “I haven’t read anything yet, but I heard that’s in the works for somewhere in the next nine episodes.”
Here’s a preview for the next episode of Glee, “Wheels”. It doesn’t come on until Nov. 11th… I don’t think I can wait that long! Can you? Three weeks without Glee should constitute as cruel and unusual punishment. In the mean time, keep checking back for more news and videos! :)
Update: There are some fun spoilers for the episode posted after the jump. [Read the rest...]
Jonathan Groff is going to have a 5 or 6 episode story arch where he plays the lead male singer in Vocal Adrenaline! Here’s the article from EW.com.
EW has exclusively learned that Lea Michele’s Spring Awakening co-star, Jonathan Groff (seen most recently in Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock) is coming on board Glee for five or six episodes playing the lead male singer of Vocal Adrenaline, the group already seen performing “Rehab” and “Mercy.” Says Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy, “He is a male diva…a miva.” Groff’s character will also serve as a potential love interest for Michele’s Rachel.
Australian website TV FIX had the chance to talk to Lea Michele and Cory Monteith when they were on their promotional tour in Australia. Here’s an excerpt from their spoiler filled article.
Lea and Cory dropped some tasty tidbits about future episodes, revealing that the aforementioned romantic tension between Rachel and Finn will be complicated by the presence of his cheerleader girlfriend Quinn (Dianna Agron), and that fans of the show can start looking forward to some big musical numbers.
“There’s ‘Somebody to Love’ by Queen,” reveals Lea. “And Cory and I do ‘Smile’ by Lily Allen which is really cute. We also a Rolling Stones number. We do a lot of mash-ups, when you take to songs and mash them together — in one episode the boys do a mash-up and the girls do a mash-up, and that’s really cool.”
They’re especially looking forward to the 13th episode, which caps off the first half of season one.
“The glee club will be competing in sectionals [a sort of semifinal],” Lea says. “And we do a really great number — I’m not allowed to say what it is. But there’s some Barbara Streisand in the episode. There’s some kissing, there’s some fighting. There’s some crying.”
“And some cats come out of the bag,” hints Cory. “Two big cats.”
So here are a couple of Glee spoilers! The first is from EW’s Ask Ausiello and the second from TVGuide.com. Also, I left off the last sentence of the second spoiler because it was so spoilery that even I couldn’t post here in good conscience. In order to see it, make sure that you click “Read the rest…”
Question: Will Glee introduce Lea’s mom? Wouldn’t it be cool if it turned out to be Idina Menzel? Just a thought. –Wendy
Ausiello: I like the way your mind works. Unfortunately, there are no immediate plans to bring on Lea’s mom. We don’t even meet her dads in the first 13 episodes.
I can’t wait for Glee to start again! Any scoop? — Julianne MICKEY: Question for you, Julianne. Are you as sick of the “Single Ladies” choreography as jokey Internet meme (see: here, here, here and here) as I am? That’s too bad for both of us, because it’s the inspiration for an entire episode in which Kurt joins the football team. Read the rest of this entry »
Watch with Kristin has revealed a few spoilers about the relationships between the Glee club members that we’ll all be watching this fall.
Sarah in Pasadena, Calif.: Glee scoop please. Preferably on Finn and Rachel!
Lea Michele really hopes Rachel and Finn (Cory Monteith) get together when Glee returns this fall: “I’m keeping my fingers crossed!” she tells us. As for Finn’s current girlfriend, Quinn, she’ll be sticking around for a while. Dianna Agron says, “There’s more than one love triangle. There are many, many love triangles, and they’re always changing.”
Gabriela: In the next episodes of Glee, is there any hope or hint for us Puck-Quinn fans?
If you want to see the head Cheerio hook up with Mohawk guy, there is most definitely hope and a hint in the upcoming episodes of Glee, but we can’t tell you more than that or Glee creator Ryan Murphywould kill us. OK, we’ll give you a hint. At least two of the people pictured [here] have a secret, and at least three are big fat traitors.
Comedic actress Molly Shannon, who you probably know from her many years on Saturday Night Live, is being added to the list of Glee’s famous guest stars! She will be playing Brenda Castle, McKinley’s new “busty” 45-year-old astronomy teacher and badminton coach. Also, she’s a raging alcoholic and pill-popper. Yay! She sounds like a hilarious addition to McKinley’s supply of crazy sports coaches.
According to some leaked casting calls for the back nine, we can expect to see a new character in Episode 1.17, titled “Laryngitis“, which will me filming from February 23rd to March 4th. 
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It appears the Glee will be getting a whole episode in the back nine, showcasing some original music! Even though the show has been doing an amazing job with their covers, it’ll be fun to see what original songs they’ll be performing in the spring. Here’s what Ryan Murphy had to say to 
Also, Ryan Tedder, who’s in one of my personal favorite bands, OneRepublic, co-wrote the song “Halo” with Beyoncé. When Idolator.com asked him if he’d seen the mashup between “Halo” and “Walking on Sunshine” on Glee, he told 
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