Glee is a musical comedy television series that airs on Fox. It focuses on a high school show choir, also known as a glee club, set within McKinley High School in Lima, OH.A preview of the show was broadcast after American Idol on May 19, 2009.
Main characters
Dianna Agron as Quinn Fabray: Finn's celibate "Cheerio" girlfriend
Chris Colfer as Kurt Hummel: a gay, bullied member of the glee club
Jessalyn Gilsig as Terri Schuester: Will's craft-addicted wife who works part-time at "Sheets N' Things"
Jane Lynch as Sue Sylvester:head coach of the "Cheerios" who wants nothing more than to see the glee club fail
Jayma Mays as Emma Pillsbury: the high school's OCD guidance counselor who is harboring unrequited feelings for Will
Kevin McHale as Arty Abrams: an electric guitar virtuoso and manual wheelchair user
Lea Michele as Rachel Berry: a talented student and singer with aspirations of becoming a star. She is the daughter of a gay black and white interracial couple (of which she does not know her biological father, but prefers it that way [one can surminse that it would be the white parent]), eliciting homophobic jokes from the Cheerios and other popular kids.
Cory Monteith as Finn Hudson: the all-star quarterback with a secret passion for singing
Matthew Morrison as Will Schuester: a high school Spanish teacher and current director of the "New Directions" glee club
Amber Riley as Mercedes Jones: a rival diva to Rachel in the glee club
Mark Salling as Puck: Finn's football buddy who disapproves of Finn joining the glee club
Jenna Ushkowitz as Tina Cohen-Chang: a stuttering student and member of the glee club
Recurring characters
Patrick Gallagher as Ken Tanaka: the head coach of the football team who wants to date Emma
Iqbal Theba as Principal Higgins: the high school's unenthusiastic Indian-American principal.
The series will have covers of many different songs sung on-screen by the characters.
Among the songs featured in the pilot are "Respect" (sung by Amber Riley), "I Kissed a Girl" (sung by Jenna Ushkowitz), "On My Own" from Les Misérables (sung by Lea Michele), "Can't Fight This Feeling" (sung a capella by Cory Monteith), "You're the One That I Want" (sung by the entire glee club), "Rehab" (sung by a rival glee club), and, most notably "Don't Stop Believing" (sung by the glee club). It was announced on May 4, 2009 that the night of each airing, the songs will be made available on iTunes starting on May 19, 2009, with full versions of "Rehab" and "Don't Stop Believing".
Among the future songs that will be heard include "Bust Your Windows", which will be sung in a fantasy sequence by Riley, and Kristin Chenoweth will sing "Maybe This Time" from Cabaret and "Last Name".
Some of the show's a cappella tracks were recorded by Jeff Smith (m-pact), Alvin Chea (Take 6), David Loucks (m-pact), and Tim Davis.
Among the future songs that will be heard include "Bust Your Windows", which will be sung in a fantasy sequence by Riley, and Kristin Chenoweth will sing "Maybe This Time" from Cabaret and "Last Name".
Some of the show's a cappella tracks were recorded by Jeff Smith (m-pact), Alvin Chea (Take 6), David Loucks (m-pact), and Tim Davis.
