Graffiti 2009-10

HANNAH TARDER-STOLL

There’s not much that is exciting about September. Summer ends, school starts and work begins to pile up. There is something, though, that makes this dreaded month worthwhile: new TV shows.

Probably the most highly anticipated new show of this season is Glee. Glee is about a high school show choir trying to make regionals. Unfortunately for them, the choir or “Glee Club” consists mainly of the schools outcasts, and the problem of social status is interfering with their dream.

The show features an amazing cast of Broadway stars, including the talented Lea Michele. Glee has also had many cameos by other stars, including Kristin Chenoweth from the Broadway cast of Wicked.  Basically, for the music theatre junkie, this is the best thing that has ever happened to TV.

Since the show has aired it has caused an uproar at NT. Students are obsessed, they watch it religiously every Wednesday night, and some can even be found humming “Don’t Stop Believing” in the halls.

In fact, Glee has become such a huge phenomenon that NT has started it’s very own Glee Club. The show choir is modeled on Glee, and will have two vocal heads and one dance head. Supervised by Ms. Monteith, the club was started by grade 12 student Clair Gwilliams.

Initially, Clair had wanted to start the club a year earlier but the idea was postponed until it became a more popular idea this September. “Not enough people took interest,” Clair commented on why she did not start it up last year. “But when [Glee] came out this year people immediately wanted to join.”

Glee has gotten so big at the school that 75 students have signed up to join the club. A huge portion of the student body has suddenly taken interest in the show choir, which last year had to be cancelled due to lack of members, and an even larger portion of the student body is Glee-obsessed. So how has the show exploded into such a massive NT phenomenon?

In Glee, the show choir members are meant to be the social outcasts who find refuge at the club. At NT, thanks to the show, Glee Club seems to be the cool thing to do now.

Khaya Buhler, a grade 12 student, puts it simply. “I think at our school things that are ‘nerdy’ at a normal school are cool here. That’s why I love North Toronto.”