{"id":878,"date":"2012-08-15T22:53:27","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T02:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=878"},"modified":"2016-12-17T11:22:56","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T16:22:56","slug":"the-glee-project-seasons-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/the-glee-project-seasons-1-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Glee Project (seasons 1 & 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

{4.5\/5} “Never seen a contestant flirt with the band before, so good on you for that.”<\/p>\n

The Glee Project<\/strong> is a reality show — the winner gets a role on Glee<\/strong><\/a>. Last summer the first season ran for 10 episodes — they started off with 12 contestants and 4 of them ended up on Glee<\/strong>. The second season just finished, and it ran for 11 episodes — they started off with 14 contestants and one of them will be on Glee<\/strong> next season.<\/p>\n

Each week there’s a theme and a homework assignment. The contestant who wins the homework assignment gets to spend some one-on-one time with a special guest mentor from Glee<\/strong>. Then they learn some music and dance moves and make a video. The three contestants who performed the least well have to sing for Glee<\/strong> co-creator Ryan Murphy (the TV show Nip\/Tuck<\/strong>). Murphy decides which contestant has to leave the show.<\/p>\n

The contestants are all 18 to 24 — they would have to play high school students if they won. They are all great singers and have varying dance and acting skills. I’m pretty involved with the show — already by episode 2 I’m sad when the contestant has to leave. The one thing that confused me a bit in season 1 was that Murphy’s decisions seemed a bit arbitrary — but as casting director Robert Ulrich (the TV show Battlestar Galactica<\/strong>) says, “casting is completely subjective.” A whole week’s worth of events are compressed into an hour, so there’s a lot that happens that we don’t see.<\/p>\n

In addition to Murphy and Ulrich, there are some other behind-the-scenes people from Glee<\/strong> on this show. Nikki Anders is a vocal producer (also a singer and songwriter) and helps the contestants in the recording studio. Zach Woodlee (Real Steel<\/strong>) is a choreographer and teaches the contestants their choreography each week. And Erik White (Lottery Ticket<\/strong>), not from Glee<\/strong> but from the world of music videos, directs the videos that the contestants make.<\/p>\n

I like the music, and I like getting to know the contenders — although it’s a competition, it’s a friendly competition.<\/p>\n

The show was created by Ryan Murphy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

{4.5\/5} “Never seen a contestant flirt with the band before, so good on you for that.” The Glee Project is a reality show — the winner gets a role on Glee. Last summer the first season ran for 10 episodes — they started off with 12 contestants and 4 of them ended up on Glee. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5,52,11],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-shows","tag-review","tag-talent-show","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9982,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions\/9982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}