TUESDAY, MAY 17 —“GLEE”—(8:00-9:01 PM ET/PT) CC-HDTV 720p-Dolby Digital 5.1

A TRAGIC LOSS ROCKS LIMA ON AN ALL-NEW “GLEE” TUESDAY, MAY 17, ON FOX

Jonathan Groff Guest-Stars

New Directions continues to strategize their set list for Nationals with a little help from Jessie St. James. Meanwhile, an unexpected loss rocks the world of one of McKinley’s own in the all-new“Funeral” episode of GLEE airing Tuesday, May 17 (8:00-9:01 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (GLE-221) (TV-14 D, L)

Cast: Matthew Morrison as Will Schuester; Jessalyn Gilsig as Terri Schuester; Jane Lynch as Sue Sylvester; Lea Michele as Rachel Berry; Cory Monteith as Finn Hudson; Jayma Mays as Emma Pillsbury; Dianna Agron as Quinn; Chris Colfer as Kurt; Kevin McHale as Artie; Amber Riley as Mercedes; Mark Salling as Puck; Jenna Ushkowitz as Tina; Naya Rivera as Santana Lopez; Heather Morris as Brittany S. Pierce; Mike O’Malley as Burt Hummel

Guest Cast: Jonathan Groff as Jesse St. James; Harry Shum as Mike Chang; Chord Overstreet as Sam Evans; Ashley Fink as Lauren Zizes; Iqbal Theba as Principal Figgins; Josh Sussman as Jacob Ben Israel; Lauren Potter as Becky Jackson; Darren Criss as Blaine Anderson; Max Adler as Dave Karofsky; Charlotte Ross as Mrs. Fabray

NEW DIRECTIONS HEADS TO NATIONALS ON THE “GLEE” SEASON FINALE
AIRING AT A SPECIAL TIME TUESDAY, MAY 24, ON FOX

Patti LuPone, Jonathan Groff, Cheyenne Jackson and Charice Guest-Star

The kids of New Directions travel from Lima to New York City to compete in Nationals. While in the Big Apple, they take in all of the sights from Times Square to Broadway to Central Park in the all-new “New York” season finale episode of GLEE airing at a special time Tuesday, May 24 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (GLE-222) (TV-14 D, L)

Cast: Matthew Morrison as Will Schuester; Jane Lynch as Sue Sylvester; Lea Michele as Rachel Berry; Cory Monteith as Finn Hudson; Jayma Mays as Emma Pillsbury; Dianna Agron as Quinn; Chris Colfer as Kurt; Kevin McHale as Artie; Amber Riley as Mercedes; Mark Salling as Puck; Jenna Ushkowitz as Tina; Naya Rivera as Santana Lopez; Heather Morris as Brittany S. Pierce; Mike O’Malley as Burt Hummel

Guest Cast: Patti LuPone as Herself, Jonathan Groff as Jesse St. James; Cheyenne Jackson as Dustin Goolsby, Charice as Sunshine Corazon, Harry Shum as Mike Chang; Chord Overstreet as Sam Evans; Ashley Fink as Lauren Zizes; Darren Criss as Blaine Anderson

I know you recap Glee, so where’s the love for the show? Don’t make me sic my cat Lord Tubbington on you! — Jacklyn
I’d really like to know if LT is climbing the list of most used cat names as fast as I predict. I hope so — because that would be brilliant. Anyway, let’s talk Nationals. If you believe executive producer Brad Falchuk, it’s going to be simultaneously brilliant and chaotic. “It’s Nationals, so it’s actually a much bigger…it’s teams from all over the country so it’s a much bigger pool. These are these kids from a little place in Ohio, like the Bad News Bears. The whole idea is that no matter how big Regionals has been or Sectionals has been, this is a totally different world and the scope is much bigger and the pressure is much higher and are they prepared for it?” he reveals. “Can they overcome their internal squabbles to come together and take this?” I believe they can…as long as they stop killing people and making us all do the ugly cry.

Hey! Sandra! Need some info on this Finchel date! What happens?! Do they kiss? …OR MORE?!?– Sharee
I can’t spoil the ending!!! And neither will Lea Michele: “We get to go to a lovely dinner and we walk to through Central Park together,” she says. “You’ll have to see how it ends.”

Terri said she’s moving to Miami. Is Jessalyn Gilsig leaving the show? Say it ain’t so! – Rion
It will definitely be an extended leave. But whether it’s permanent remains to be seen since this team has been known to change its mind very quickly. But I’m told that Jessalyn Gilsig will be quite busy in the summer anyhow. She soon begins production on a movie in which she’ll star and produce called, Somewhere Slow. That already sounds like more than they’ve given Terri to do all season!

Glee Live 2011 Dress Rehearsal

Don’t Stop Believing (original version)
Dog Days
Fat Bottomed Girls
Sing
Slave 4 U
PYT
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Firework
Ain’t No Way
Born This Way
Lucky
Happy Days
River Deep / Mountain High
Teenage Dream
Silly Love Songs
Raise Your Glass
Don’t Rain on My Parade
Jesse’s Girl
Valerie
Loser Like Me (with Darren in orange pants!)
Possibly not in order, possibly missing a few. That. was. amazing.

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Was the Klaine/Brittany skit cute? What kind of reaction did you have for that?
Anonymous

Lol, the skit. <3 Heather came out and said like, “So I had a crush on Kurt but that didn’t work out, so I like someone else now. Blaine Warbler, come out here!”

Darren pranced out, blazered. Heather was like, “so hey, I like you, wanna make out?” Darren awkwardly fumbled out something like, “uh, that’s sweet, but….”

… While Chris stood stage-right with his arms folded. Chris interrupted them with “Brittany! Are you flirting with my man??” He practically skipped over to Darren, threw himself down on one knee and “proposed” that Blaine join Glee club. Darren accepted, saying he always wanted to do a big, showy Broadway number that he couldn’t do as a Warbler. Chris was like, yeah um I don’t think so, those are all mine. He added, “Or Rachel’s…” kind of bitterly, and out she came for Rain on My Parade.

At one point Chris stretched his leg up in the air. Idek. Chris was hilarious/flawless/adorable, Heather was Heather, and I think Darren needed the rehearsal.

Does Mark have any solos or featured performances?
kagomerulz

He did Fat Bottomed Girls! Ashley was off the side of the stage dancing and looking adorb. Cory played drums.

Was Chris on stage when Darren and the Warblers sang? There are no duets with them right?
Anonymous

He wasn’t. The Warblers (and several other numbers) started off performing on the opposite side of the arena from the main stage. They did Teenage Dream and Silly Love Songs there, then sang their way over to the main stage. They did Raise Your Glass up there.

No duets. :( It’s possible we didn’t get the entire setlist.

How was Lea's performance? Any cute moments?
Anonymous

To another question: sigh, no, we didn’t get Get It Right. Maybe it’ll pop up in an encore.

But better news: LEA, OH MY GOD. She didn’t lip-sync anything. Lea bounced out with more energy and passion than should really be allowed ever, sang her face off repeatedly, and looked adorable while doing it. Firework is not one of my favorite songs — the original or the cover — but it was AMAZING live. I could watch that over and over and over again.

Did anyone lip-sync any of their songs?
Anonymous

Yeah. :x Honestly, it’s probably a lot easier to list what wasn’t lip-synced. Amber rocked the HELL out of Ain’t No Way, Cory did the same for Jesse’s Girl, and Chris slayed I Wanna Hold Your Hand. Lea sang everything live. Kevin and Chord did, too. Dianna/Naya/Heather were obviously syncing, and Amber synced everything but Ain’t No Way. Oddly, Chris was lip-syncing to the spoken part of Born This Way, even though.. he didn’t even have to sing?? lol. Darren sang live too.

I don’t think the lip-syncing affected the quality of the show. When they did sing, they slayed, and even when they weren’t, they performed their asses off.

Did Naya join them for "Born This Way"? :)
Anonymous

Yes! In her “Lebanese” shirt.

Did Chris sing live on Happy Days are here again/get happy?
Anonymous

Both Lea and Chris did. Beaaautiful, oh man. They were holding hands and singing to each other, generally being flawless.

WElove123: In the name of the almighty Groff, please can we have a cryptic tease for Will and Emma in tomorrow's Glee finale?
You know we couldn't ignore the use of Groff as a pleading device! Tricky, tricky. But lucky for you, we can give a little tease about Will (Matthew Morrison) and Emma (Jayma Mays) in the finale: They will be involved in one of the many cliffhangers.

bagelsvswaffles: FINCHEL!!!! No, I'm kidding, I don't care about Finchel. Will the finale have a storyline, or will it just be a 1000 songs?
You don't care about Finchel? Oh, snap! I hope Finn-Rachel fans don't come after you. But back to your question. The finale is song-heavy, but there is so much going on that there will be no shortage of storylines. Maybe we'll just let Chord Overstreet tell you about it: "There's a bunch of drama in that episode. There might be a little bit of Finchel. There might be a little bit of drama between Quinn (Dianna Agron) and Rachel. There might be a little bit of old flames lighting up again. Who knows?" You do, mister! Now spill! "The finale is going to be so good. You guys just have to watch," he tells us coyly.

gleebeliever Any more hints about Finchel in the finale? I've waited so long for them to be together again.
You didn't think we'd let the last Spoiler Chat before the Glee finale have zero mention of the most-asked-about couple on the show, did you? Finn (Cory Monteith) and Rachel (Lea Michele) do find time during the crazy New York/Nationals trip to address their feelings about each other. Don't think for one second that Finchel will be all about singing and longing looks in tomorrow's episode.