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The Glee preview airs tonight after Idol, and I can't say enough good things about the episode. It's hilarious, it's really smart, it's heartwarming, it's perfectly cast, and it's one of the best pilots I've ever seen. Even if you don't like musicals, I would still recommend checking it out -- the production numbers are fantastic, but I promise the show is a lot more than that. Now that I've stated my case for the show, on to yesterday's press event! TWoP: Before we get into Glee, I have to ask -- will you be back on Party Down next season?
Jane Lynch: I don't think so, because of this [Glee]!
TWoP: Is it possible at all?
JL: It's possible, yes, but I don't think so.
TWoP: Will we hear you sing on Glee?
JL: [Breaks into boisterous, old-school vibrado, then stops.] Oh, you mean on the show? I don't know! I hope I will. I'm always singing in between scenes just so Ryan'll go, 'What is that? Where is that beautiful voice coming from?' And I'll be like, [Breaks into more vibrado] 'It's me!' So we'll see.
TWoP: Why is your character so anti-glee club?
JL: She's just mean. She's heinous. She wants to break their little spirits. But she's foiled at every turn, and you'll see as the season progresses -- she indeed has a heart. She just chooses to lock it up. And the glee club threatens her light, you know, she wants to be the star. Her cheerleaders are a nationally ranked cheerleading squad, and she drives them and makes them the very best, and then all of a sudden these young upstarts start winning competitions and getting some of the intra-mural money, and I'm not getting all of it, and I don't like it at all! So I need to destroy them.
TWoP: Do you think she'll ever try to take over glee club?
JL: Oh, I have! In the fourth or fifth episode I become co-director. I put 'em through their paces.
On to the lovely and charming Jayma Mays and Chris Colfer...
TWoP: What can you tell us about your characters?
Chris Colfer: I play Kurt, and he is the fashionable soprano.
TWoP: [To Jayma] Is your character a homewrecker?
Jayma Mays: Well... no. Not so far, no. I mean, it's all about the love, right? We don't need to call it homewrecking. Other things happen with their [Will and Emma] relationships with other people on the show, so you'll see that.
TWoP: Will there be any other guest stars besides Victor Garber and Kristin Chenoweth you can tell us about?
CC: Josh Groban's coming! He's going to play himself.
TWoP: Besides "Rehab" and "Don't Stop Believing," which we know are in tonight's episode, can you tease any upcoming songs?
CC: We've got a lot of big hits -- we're doing "Push It," by Salt N Pepa, "Single Ladies," [Beyonce's] "Halo," "Walking on Sunshine"... lots of good stuff coming up.
JM: I had to sing a few weeks ago, for the first time.
TWoP: What did you sing?
JM: "I Could Have Danced All Night," did a little My Fair Lady.
TWoP: Will your character sing now, going forward?
JM: Well, let's not say I sing now, because that's misleading. But I had to sing, and I don't have a Broadway voice. But it's a comedy, right? That's okay?
TWoP: I think it is!
JM: Okay, then let's say that here and now: it's a comedy, so I had to sing.
CC: I just got to sing for the first time, too -- I sang "Defying Gravity" from Wicked.
TWoP: Oh wow, is there a lot of Broadway on the show? I was under the impression it was mostly Top 40.
CC: Umm... yeah, yeah there is a lot of Broadway.
JM: Well it's a nice mix of both.
CC: Yeah, definitely a mix, yeah.
TWoP: And lastly, do you have an Idol favorite?
CC: Adam!
JM: Me too!
CC: Yeah, Adam is the best.
JM: He's amazing!
TWoP: I couldn't agree more.
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