don't stop believin'

[elly427]

I mised Glee back in May and only caught the pilot early this week. I am kind of adoring it thus far, as are many of you, but I have a theory about this.

[Poll #1455600]

I was in choir and drama (and muscial theatre! dinner theatres, actually) and would have been in band had I not made the misguided decision to play the ukulele and not an actual instrument in elementary school. I feel like the flist (and the community of TV critics) is full of choristers and drama geeks and this is where at least half the love for Glee is coming from, though I could be wrong.

Comments

[all-shine-on.livejournal.com]

I wasn't any of these things, but I had a lot of band/drama friends and was socially on par with them, at least in my 11 and 12 years. So perhaps it's not just actual involvement, but equitable social standing?

[elly427.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly. It's all about those old cliques that we all are still stuck in, somewhere. Or maybe that's just me.

[jeebs83.livejournal.com]

Chamber orchestra and Varsity Cheerleading!!!!! :D :D :D!!!! That was me and I still go back and visit my teachers and judge try-outs. :)

[elly427.livejournal.com]

Whoa, orchestra AND cheerleading? You rebel, you! *g* I haven't visited my teachers in a while, but that's because they had to tear down my high school and relocate due to mold and asbestos. Yeah. It feels too weird going into the new place.

[pathstotread.livejournal.com]

What do you mean? My being a show choir geek in high school doesn't heighten my love of this show at all.

...oh, jeez, who am I kidding?

[elly427.livejournal.com]

Show choir! I forgot show choir! I knew I'd miss something!

(I am just waiting for them to get Glee Club shirts. Then I will BE them.)

[pathstotread.livejournal.com]

It's cool. I clicked that I was in glee club because it's fairly similar, I think. At least the glee club the show is portraying. Choreographed routines, competitions, the whole nine yards - that was my freshman and sophomore years of high school.

And I was actually in glee club in college. Have two, count them, TWO tshirts to prove it.

[elly427.livejournal.com]

Man, I would have loved show choir/glee. All of my choirs in high school and university were the traditional kind.

I may still have my high school choir sweater. I may still wear it. It may stil be awesome.

[liminalliz.livejournal.com]

CHOIR AND DRAMA REPRESENT!

[elly427.livejournal.com]

LIZZEN, I WAS MAYBE TOTALLY COUNTING ON YOU TO ANSWER THIS POLL EVEN IF NO ONE ELSE DID.

Choirrrrrrr! Dramaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Ah, high school lunch hours. I miss you so!

[liminalliz.livejournal.com]

\o/

WE CANNOT FORGET OUR ROOTS, OUR HEARTS, AND THE OWNERS OF OUR SOOOOOOOOUL. CHOIR I MISS YOU SO.

[zorb]

It totally does. All-purpose theatre geek here!

[elly427.livejournal.com]

Whoot! I love my flist! :D

[http://users.livejournal.com/wisteria_/]

I didn't really make fun of everyone else, but I was a bit jealous of people who could really perform. I stayed in marching band solely because it got me out of having to take P.E. Fortunately, I went to a huge high school where there wasn't really an elitist social hierarchy, and everyone kinda did their own thing. At least, I didn't perceive a "popular kids" crew that bullied the rest of us. Maybe I was just in my own little world.

Glee was fun tonight. I kinda wish it had more showtunes, though, because the rest of the episode was a bit boring. I'm iffy about most of the characters, but damn, the teacher guy (Mr. Schuster?) is really cute.

Also: ELLY!!!

[elly427.livejournal.com]

Marching band! Oh, how I wish my school had one! And that I played an instrument that would have allowed me to be in it!

I never felt bullied - I felt like a lot of the 'popular' kids didn't get the choir/drama kids, but then again a lot of them were in drama club. I bet high school is different these days, what with American Idol and what not.

I had a moment when Will (teacher guy? I think?) and Emma (?) had their chalk moment and I was all aflutter. I am such a whore for canon ships. Le sigh. Also, I'm hoping for show tune too.

WISTERIA! *clings tightly*

[ladyjestyr.livejournal.com]

In my school there virtually were no options unless you took music as a class (which I didn't have room for), in which case there were various bands. We didn't have orchestra or glee club or marching band at all (and I suspect they're generally less common in Aussie schools anyway). We did stage musicals every couple of years, though; all the primo parts went to the music students, but the rest of us generally got spots in the chorus.

We did have a choir, and to this day I can't work out why I didn't join it. :/

[elly427.livejournal.com]

Man, choir was so much fun. I did take voice as a class but we were a small class, so the muscial leads went to lots of people. Man, high school.

We had a band and a choir but both were smallish. If you were really serious about music you went to one of two high schools that put on ridiculous, elaborate musicals every year that the rest of us went to see so we could be jealous. Le sigh.

[cattm.livejournal.com]

I was in a choir, sometimes participated in a small vocal group, and I played the violin in an orchestra (we changed our setting every now and then, sometimes a chamber orchestra, sometimes we brought in more instruments to form a somewhat symphonic orchestra).

I have never seen Glee. I have to check it out, it seems very popular among my flisters. It's not airing in Sweden, so I'll have to find it some other way, or wait for it to find its way over here.

[elly427.livejournal.com]

I really, really wish I had played an orchestra instrument. It seems like it would be really fun.

Glee is a lot of joy. Right now, I'm in it for the music less so than the characters, but I hope that changes. I wish I could point you to a download!

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

I was in choir for the one year we had it. Sigh. If there'd been musicals/drama programs I would have been all up in that. In college I also took a semester of show choir which was serious cheesy fun.

There's more showtunes coming (from Wicked and Cabaret for starters). And I cannot wait until Victor Garber and Kristin Chenoweth show up.

[elly427.livejournal.com]

The year I started high school we were forced to take a fine art, so I ended up doing both drama and voice. It was a lot of fun - I wish you had the opportunity!

And I TOTALLY forgot about SpyDaddy guesting. I loves him so! *whirls in gleee*

ALSO, you, I have read The Hunger Games and Catching Fire and am in love with it a lot. Like, maybe I'm composing a post about it and fic! and my love for Katniss and poor Peeta and Anders-substitute Gale. I blame you, you know.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

OMG you're the second person tonight who said they think Gale is like Anders! Which I so do not understand. GALE IS SO LEE-LIKE!!

But yes, POST. AND FIC!! I just opened a thread at good_hunting_hq tonight so we can talk about Catching Fire!! There is the home-like kiss!! And the line about belonging to each other and "anything else is unfathomable."

[elly427.livejournal.com]

WAIT. WHAT.

OMG are you on Team Gale? BECAUSE I WILL HAVE TO FICTIONALLY DISOWN YOU. I mean, not really, but. BUT!

I have many reasons for my Gale-is-Anders theory which I am currently incapable of articulating but which mostly begin and end with 'we know nothing about him! Why should I invest in him and Katniss? He's nice enough, but come on! Peeta IS TOTALLY LEE with his ridiculous, life-long, unexepected love from afar. Gale is TOTALLY ANDERS IN THIS SCENARIO.'

My paradigm is totally shifting, here, Tara. OMG.

*clings to you regardless*

Seriously my mind is blown here.

(OMG YOUR ICON. I can't believe I was so off base.)

OMG.

(My fic is all Peeta or Haymitch based!)

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Haymitch is awesome. Peeta is...emo.

You must come over to good hunting to see how wrong you are. ;) There are a few holdouts who like pale imitation Peeta, but Gale and Lee have so much more in common! Gale was there first! They had the bond first and Peeta is the interloper! Gale is totally quietly pining for her TOO. It's so clear.

*clings back at you even though you are so misguided*

[sarmoti.livejournal.com]

Concert Band, Marching Band, Pep Band, Choir, Chamber Singers AND Orchestra. My friends and I totally *owned* the music dept our senior year. I guess that makes us geeky bitches?

YEAH, MUZAK BITCHES, REPRESENT! :)

[elly427.livejournal.com]

HEE. I !knew! my flist was full of music and drama kids, for lo, we were awesome in high school and are also awesome now.

I really wish my school had had a marching band. Le sigh.

[scienceinheels.livejournal.com]

I was in the orchestra, so I put down band - although perhaps "band" is marching band in the Americas (idk). Schools in New Zealand always have an orchestra and pretty much never a marching band, unless its Scottish. I LOVED our Scottish marching band. Always got the blood going.