GLEE is still fun—if you just watch the music

I basically stopped watching GLEE because the storylines were so PC and ridiculous, but have been missing all the great musical bits by amazing B’way performers like Matthew Morrison, Idina Menzel, Kristin Chenoweth, and Lea Michele. So was very happy to find that BroadwayWorld.com is featuring just the Glee musical highlights on their site. Of course, I miss the context of all the “meaningful looks” between the characters during the songs, but don’t really care.

I do wonder about what all the young performers and audience members think about the constant barrage of 25-year-old 1980s songs on the show, though. Yeah, we liked “Happy Days” when we were growing up but would we have sat through a constant stream of musty old 1950s songs? Hard to imagine….

My favorite song from the last episode is the acoustic duet between Matthew Morrison and Idina Menzel. I have no idea by what contrivance these two are singing together on the show, but would love to see more of this!!