"Pilot (Glee) ""Pilot"" is the pilot episode of the American television series ""Glee"", which premiered on the Fox network on May 19, 2009. An extended director's cut version aired on September 2, 2009. The show focuses on a high school show choir, also known as a glee club, set within the fictional William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio. The pilot episode covers the formation of the club and introduces the main characters. The episode was directed by series creator Ryan Murphy, and written by Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan. Murphy selected the music featured in the episode, with"
"club at the fictional William McKinley High School (WMHS) in the town of Lima, Ohio, and graduates of McKinley who have moved to New York City, some to attend the fictional New York Academy of Dramatic Arts (NYADA). Unlike previous seasons, the fifth continues the school year begun in season four. The first half of the season follows the club competing on the show choir circuit, while the remainder of the season focuses on graduation and the alumni's lives in New York City as its members, faculty and alumni deal with gay bashing, death, intimacy, STDs, transphobia and other social"
"development of her romantic feelings for her best friend Brittany Pierce (Heather Morris), and subsequent realization that she is a lesbian. Rivera, who has been vocally supportive of the love story between her and Morris' character, has received widespread praise for her portrayal of Santana, as well as for her for vocal work in numerous songs performed as part of the show's central glee club, New Directions. Santana is introduced alongside Quinn and Brittany as one of the three most popular cheerleaders at the fictional William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio, where the show is set. She joins the"
"on the chart, which was launched the week of August 4, 1958. Lil Wayne and Elvis Presley are tied for the second most ""Billboard"" Hot 100 appearances at 108. The New Rachel ""The New Rachel"" is the premiere episode of the fourth season of the American musical television series ""Glee"", and the sixty-seventh episode overall. Written by Ryan Murphy and directed by Brad Falchuk, it aired on Fox in the United States on September 13, 2012. The episode features Rachel (Lea Michele) beginning school at the New York Academy of the Dramatic Arts (NYADA), while at McKinley High, the national"
"school itself as well as Will Schuester. It then features a flashforward to the year 2020 that explores the fates of the characters. The episode featured special guest star Jonathan Groff as Jesse St. James and special appearances by Geraldo Rivera and Andrew Rannells as themselves. After pausing for a moment to think back on his own show choir past, Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) joins his New Directions members on stage as they are now in the finals for the show choir national championship. New Directions wins, and afterwards, Superintendent Bob Harris (Christopher Cousins) tells Will that McKinley High is"
"the way not to ""stick to the status quo"". High school diva Sharpay Evans (Ashley Tisdale) and her twin brother Ryan (Lucas Grabeel), will do anything not only to sabotage the friendship and romance between Troy and Gabriella but also to get the leads in the school musical. ""High School Musical"" was filmed at East High School located in Salt Lake City, Utah, the auditorium of Murray High School, and Downtown Salt Lake City. Murray High School was also the set of several other Disney productions: ""Take Down"" (1979), ""Read It and Weep"" (2006), ""Minutemen"" (2008), and """" (2008). In"
"High School Musical High School Musical is a 2006 American musical television film and the first installment in the ""High School Musical"" trilogy directed by Kenny Ortega. It was filmed in 2005 in Salt Lake City. Upon its release on January 20, 2006, it became the most successful Disney Channel Original Movie (DCOM) ever produced, with a television sequel, ""High School Musical 2,"" released in 2007 and the feature film, "","" released theatrically in October 2008. It is the first DCOM to have a theatrical sequel. The film's soundtrack was the best-selling album in the United States, reaching number 1"
"for her to rebel a bit after Finn Hudson's death, and convinces Kurt that they should both get tattoos. In Lima, Principal Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) is appalled by Will's assignment and bans twerking from McKinley High. Will refuses to accept this and performs ""Blurred Lines"" with New Directions and other students, misunderstanding the meaning of the song. Sue fires him, but he appeals to the school board by showing how several dances were, in their time, considered as controversial as twerking, and is reinstated. Unique is bullied while using the boys' bathroom and sings ""If I Were a Boy"""
"""Rolling in the Deep"" and ""Isn't She Lovely"". Six songs were covered, all of which were released as singles and charted on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. As the McKinley High junior prom approaches, Finn Hudson (Cory Monteith) and Quinn Fabray (Dianna Agron) are front-runners to be crowned prom king and queen. Contender Noah ""Puck"" Puckerman (Mark Salling) learns that his relationship with Lauren Zizes (Ashley Fink) has damaged his bad boy reputation, and resolves to restore it by spiking the prom punch bowl. Meanwhile, Dave Karofsky (Max Adler) and Santana Lopez (Naya Rivera) intensify their election efforts with their anti-bullying"
"Jr. as Mike Chang make their first fourth-season appearances in this episode. Their first day of filming was September 12, 2012. A recurring character returning for the first time this season is Coach Beiste, played by Dot-Marie Jones. This is also the first episode of the season to focus exclusively on McKinley High and Lima, Ohio: neither Rachel (Lea Michele) nor Kurt (Chris Colfer), who are in New York City, appeared. Other recurring characters in this episode include guidance counselor Emma Pillsbury (Jayma Mays), glee club members Sugar Motta (Vanessa Lengies), Joe Hart (Samuel Larsen), Wade ""Unique"" Adams (Newell), Marley"
"Time of My Life"" at number thirty-eight, which also made number thirty-nine on the Canadian Hot 100; ""Valerie"" at number fifty-four, which also made number seventy on the Canadian Hot 100; and ""Don't Cry for Me Argentina"" in the Lea Michele version, at number ninety-seven. Special Education (Glee) ""Special Education"" is the ninth episode of the second season of the American musical television series ""Glee"", and the thirty-first episode overall. It was written by series creator Brad Falchuk, directed by Paris Barclay, and aired on Fox in the United States on November 30, 2010. In ""Special Education"", the McKinley High"
"teacher who's been at McKinley High for 42 years, who supports Sue's congressional run. Mary Gillis plays Mrs. Hagberg, who appears in ""Prom Queen"" teaching home economics, in ""I Am Unicorn"" teaching geography, in ""I Kissed a Girl"" teaching math, and retires from her tenured position as a history teacher in ""The Spanish Teacher"", though she returns for an end-of-the-year ceremony in ""Nationals"". Ricky Martin portrays David Martinez, a night school Spanish teacher, in the episode ""The Spanish Teacher"". He replaces Will as McKinley's Spanish teacher; Will instead begins teaching history. Jean Sincere had a recurring role as the school's"
"Thomas, Janet Zhao, Paul Vanvestraut, Brianna Pallo, Christopher Benitez, Emily Williams, Kevin Mellow, Sarah Ferraro, Joseph Morisco, Samantha Humen, Noah McKane, Ryleah Ruffner, Cammie Gillar, Carleigh Gillar, Teresa Dumas, Noah Reed, Lorna Yushinsky, Noah Benjamin, Deanna Soulsby, Mia Tomassoni, Gia Mercatili, Kara Hirjak, and Beatrice Chindemi. The school's students perform musicals such as ""Grease"", ""The Sound of Music"", and recently became the first school in America to do the official, never-been-released production of ""The Phantom of the Opera"". In March 2017, Valley View performed the broadway musical ""Bye, Bye Birdie"". The performers were awarded the ESTA Award- the Award for"
"Our Song (film) Our Song is a 2000 American coming of age drama film written and directed by Jim McKay. It follows three high school-aged girls. ""Our Song"" follows three high school girls over one summer in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. The girls, Lanisha (Kerry Washington), Maria (Melissa Martinez), and Joycelyn (Anna Simpson) are best friends and confidants. They have different family situations, different romantic interests, different moral codes and their own unique dreams. They are all dedicated members of the Jackie Robinson Steppers, a community marching band, that holds daily rehearsals in a local parking lot. The girls want to"
"that the show had a wide audience appeal, calling it: ""the first show in a long time that's just plain full-throttle, no-guilty-pleasure-rationalizations-necessary fun."" Spanish teacher Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) learns that Sandy Ryerson (Stephen Tobolowsky), the head of William McKinley High School's glee club has been fired for inappropriate sexual behavior toward student Hank Saunders (Ben Bledsoe). The school principal, Figgins (Iqbal Theba), gives Will permission to take over the club, and he plans to revitalize it, naming the group New Directions. The club consists of fame-hungry Rachel Berry (Lea Michele), diva Mercedes Jones (Amber Riley), flamboyant countertenor Kurt Hummel"
"home to Lima and discovers that her fathers are divorcing and her house is being sold. Much to her dismay, Sue has disbanded all arts from McKinley and Rachel approaches the Superintendent to reboot the glee club with her remaining TV money to fund it. He agrees as long as she runs the club. With the help of the newly broken-up Kurt, she restarts the New Directions, which angers Sue. She calls her old friends and former fellow glee club members Quinn, Santana, Brittany, Puck, Artie, Mercedes, and Tina to help her, and Kurt recruits students to join the glee"
"the ""Los Angeles Times"" all deemed ""Somebody to Love"" the show's best musical number since the staging of Journey's ""Don't Stop Believin' in the pilot episode. With lead singer Rachel Berry (Lea Michele) no longer part of New Directions, the McKinley High glee club, director Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) grows concerned about the club's forthcoming performance at Invitationals. He discovers that April Rhodes (Kristin Chenoweth), a member of the club during his own high school days, never actually graduated, and convinces her to return to school in order to get her diploma and join the glee club. Having failed to"
"PM being coed, while Intensity being an all-girls choir, respectively. VA continues to gain First Place in competitions, and is 11th in the nation. Jim Cacciatore leads Perpetual Motion, while Lester Miller directs Visual Adrenaline. The Drama department does three plays a year: a fall play, a children's play (which is led by the students) and a spring musical. • Chris Fehn and Jim Root, members of Slipknot • Dennis Albaugh, Owner of Albaugh Chemical, No. 468 on the 2009 The World's Billionaires list published by Forbes • Dennis Gibson, linebacker for the Detroit Lions and San Diego Chargers football"
"take down Vocal Adrenaline at Sectionals...much to Sue's dismay. He is present as a witness when the superintendent fires Sue over her many lies and reign of terror over the years. The merged group goes on to win Sectionals, and later Nationals as well. After the Nationals victory, Superintendent Harris tells Will that because of New Directions' success and his never giving up over the years, McKinley High is now designated as a performing arts school and promotes Will to principal. He hires New Directions alum Sam Evans to be the new glee coach. Five years later, McKinley is thriving"
"million viewers. With a plot described by the author and numerous critics as a modern adaptation of ""Romeo & Juliet"", ""High School Musical"" is a story about two high school juniors from rival cliques – Troy Bolton (Zac Efron), captain of the basketball team, and Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Hudgens), a shy transfer student who excels in mathematics and science. Together, they try out for the lead parts in their high school musical, and this causes division among all the school's students. Despite other students' attempts to thwart their dreams, Troy and Gabriella resist peer pressure and rivalry, inspiring others along"
"the graduates of McKinley. The season focuses on the former glee club member, Rachel Berry, who returns to McKinley after her TV Pilot bombs to rebuild the disbanded glee club. The central characters are the former glee club director Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison), school principal Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch), and Glee club graduates Rachel Berry (Lea Michele), Kurt Hummel (Chris Colfer), Blaine Anderson (Darren Criss), Artie Abrams (Kevin McHale), and Sam Evans (Chord Overstreet). Amber Riley returns to the main cast as Mercedes Jones and Dot-Marie Jones, who portrays Shannon Beiste, the school's football coach, was promoted to the main"
"wishes to Rachel Berry (Lea Michele), who is concurrently performing in her callback audition for the Broadway revival of ""Funny Girl"", performing ""To Love You More"". Brittany Pierce (Heather Morris) visits MIT, where she is dubbed a mathematical genius. Returning to Lima, she becomes arrogant, refuses to perform at Regionals, leaves the Cheerios, and breaks up with Sam Evans (Chord Overstreet). After Will and former cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) fail to get Brittany to change her attitude, Sam gets Santana Lopez (Naya Rivera) to return to Lima to intervene. After talking with Santana, Brittany decides to perform at"
"Assistant Principal Jack Felspar, Drama teacher Sara Conover, and Physical education teacher Gus Bertoia. </onlyinclude> Making the Grade (TV series) Making the Grade is an American sitcom which aired on CBS from April 5 until May 10, 1982. It starred James Naughton, Graham Jarvis, Alley Mills, Steven Peterman, and boasted the first TV series roles for Philip Charles MacKenzie and George Wendt. It was set at Franklin High School in St. Louis, and aired as a part of CBS' Monday night comedy lineup. The theme song was a modified version of Tom Scott's ""Heading Home"", which appeared on his ""Street"
"High School Musical (franchise) The ""High School Musical"" franchise consists of three Disney musical romantic comedy-drama films directed by Kenny Ortega and created by Peter Barsocchini with a fourth installment in pre-production. It stars Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Corbin Bleu, and Monique Coleman. The original film was released simply as a Disney Channel Original Movie, but after its huge success, it was followed by a television sequel. The received a theatrical release. Tisdale and Grabeel reprised their roles as Sharpay and Ryan Evans in a spin-off on the series titled ""Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure"", ultimately released as"
"(1995) and (2011), ""Cinderella"" (1996), ""Bye Bye Birdie"" (1997), ""Oliver!"" (1998) and (2009), ""Guys and Dolls"" (1999), ""The Music Man"" (2000), ""Mame"" (2001), ""Grease"" (2003), ""Hello, Dolly!"" (2005), ""Damn Yankees"" (2006), ""West Side Story"" (2007), ""City of Angels"" (2008), ""Crazy for You"" (2012), ""Seussical"" (2013), ""Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"" (2015), ""Mary Poppins (musical) "" (2016) "" Shrek the Musical "" (2017), and "" The Little Mermaid (musical) "" (2018) East Rockaway High School East Rockaway Junior-Senior High School (often abbreviated ERHS) is a co-educational six-year secondary school in East Rockaway, New York, and the sole high school in"
"High School Musical 2 High School Musical 2 is the second film in the ""High School Musical"" series. The World Premiere took place on August 14, 2007, at Disneyland, in Anaheim, California. The primary cast, including Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, and Corbin Bleu attended the event. The film debuted on television on August 17, 2007, on Disney Channel in the U.S., and on Family in Canada. In the second installment of the Disney franchise, high school student Troy Bolton stresses over getting a job, with the price of college expenses looming on his mind, as well"
"McKinley in ""The First Time"" to scout football players for Ohio State, and is attracted to Coach Beiste, whom he later marries; after he abuses her later in the third season, she leaves him. In the sixth season, Geraldo Rivera appears as himself, doing an interview with Sue after she has been fired as McKinley High's Principal; a segment of the interview includes an appearance by Michael Bolton, who denies knowing Sue or having been the parent of Sue's daughter Robin. From NYADA, Whoopi Goldberg first appears in the third season as Carmen Tibideaux, a dean from NYADA who comes"
"Fame L.A. Fame L.A. is an American drama series that aired in syndication from 1997 to 1998. It told the story of a drama/dance school in Los Angeles where students honed their talents while overcoming various personal problems. It starred Christian Kane, Roselyn Sánchez, William R. Moses, and Lesli Margherita. Its producers included Patricia Green. Among its directors were Sharron Miller and Nancy Malone. A total of 22 sixty-minute episodes were produced. Raidió Teilifís Éireann, Ireland's national public service broadcaster, is currently airing their own version of the show, titled, ""Fame: The Musical"". The series won two Primetime Emmys, for"
"The Spanish Teacher ""The Spanish Teacher"" is the twelfth episode of the third season of the American musical television series ""Glee"", and the fifty-sixth overall. Written by co-creator Ian Brennan and directed by Paris Barclay, the episode aired on Fox in the United States on February 7, 2012. It features special guest star Ricky Martin as a night-school Spanish teacher whom Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) introduces to McKinley High, and shows several of McKinley's teachers competing for a promotion when a tenured position unexpectedly becomes available. The episode received mixed to positive reviews, and many critics considered Martin to be"
"the score, all but two schools were forced to drop out of the pilot program. High School Musical 2 High School Musical 2 is the second film in the ""High School Musical"" series. The World Premiere took place on August 14, 2007, at Disneyland, in Anaheim, California. The primary cast, including Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, and Corbin Bleu attended the event. The film debuted on television on August 17, 2007, on Disney Channel in the U.S., and on Family in Canada. In the second installment of the Disney franchise, high school student Troy Bolton stresses over"
"right up when season five begins."" Special guest star Jessica Sanchez who made a cameo in Lights Out, officially debuts as Frida Romero, the lead singer of the Hoosierdaddies a rival show choir for the New Directions. Other recurring characters in this episode include McKinley High's guidance counselor Emma Pillsbury (Mays), McKinley's new cheerleading coach Roz Washington (NeNe Leakes), glee club members Sugar Motta (Vanessa Lengies), Joe Hart (Samuel Larsen), Wade ""Unique"" Adams (Newell), Marley Rose (Benoist), Jake Puckerman (Jacob Artist), Kitty Wilde (Becca Tobin) and Ryder Lynn (Jenner), and a producer of the Broadway revival of ""Funny Girl"" (Amy"
"significantly from the special tribute episode, ""Michael"", which aired the previous week. The retirement of a history teacher opens a tenured position at McKinley High. Spanish teacher Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) and cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) both want the promotion, but anonymous students have registered complaints about the pair. Determined to polish up his language skills, Will goes to night school for a refresher course and meets instructor David Martinez (Ricky Martin), who points out that kids learn better through music. Will assigns a Spanish-themed week to New Directions and David helps by singing ""Sexy and I Know"
"The Purple Piano Project ""The Purple Piano Project"" is the premiere episode of the third season of the American musical television series ""Glee"", and the forty-fifth overall. The episode was written by series co-creator Brad Falchuk, directed by Eric Stoltz, and first aired on September 20, 2011 on Fox in the United States. It features the start of a new school year at McKinley High, and for its glee club, New Directions. Members of the club have left, and a recruitment drive is launched to bring the numbers back up. Blaine Anderson (Darren Criss), Kurt Hummel's (Chris Colfer) boyfriend, transfers"