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We have a new look here up on the site! In time for the new episode of Glee tomorrow. It’s simple but showcases Lea’s beauty Be sure to join the Twitter revolution and follow us at: If Fox’s new high-school show-choir comedy, Glee (which airs its much-anticipated second episode tomorrow night) has a breakout star, it’s New York City’s own Lea Michele. The plucky, petite Broadway vet — she got her start in Les Misérables at age 8 and more recently originated the role of Wendla in Spring Awakening — plays the show’s Tracy Flick character, Rachel Berry, a socially-ostracized firecracker with a killer voice. Michele won the role after berating the producers — including co-creator Ryan Murphy of Nip/Tuck fame — for laughing during her first audition, and showing up to her second one on time despite having totaled her car outside the studio and being covered in broken glass. Recently, Michele popped back home for a few days, where we caught up with her as she got a haircut, took a stroll along the High Line, and a enjoyed a very unnecessary cup of iced coffee. How would you describe your character, Rachel Barry, to people who’ve never seen Glee? This month: Experiencing “Glee” with two of its stars, Broadway’s Lea Michele and Matthew Morrison. Expectations are “as high as an elephant’s eye” for “Glee,” the new one-hour FOX musical series that starts its weekly run Sept. 9 (Wednesdays, 9 PM ET), and features a mix of Broadway, Top 40, R&B and country music. A ruthless brunette with a killer set of pipes who bulldozes through high school with starry ambitions? Takes one to play one. Lea Michele, who launched her Broadway career at age 8, seems to feel nothing but warm kinship for Rachel Berry, the alter ego she plays on “Glee” — Fox’s new show about, you guessed it, a high school glee club. A singing, dancing club member with a pair of stage dads and an eye on stardom, Rachel at one point announces, “There is nothing ironic about show choir.” There’s nothing like a little Glee to completely change your life. Just ask Cory Monteith, the Calgary-born, Victoria-raised cast member of one of the most promising network shows this fall. The series, about a misfit group of high school students and teachers involved in a singing, dancing, glee-club band, officially launches next Wednesday on Fox and Global after a sneak preview in May, which was rebroadcast earlier this week. |