Tonight, Kristin Chenoweth guest starred on Glee. Take a second and reflect: Kristin Chenoweth. Glee. Together as one! Right now, I feel like such a total fanboy dork, but I don't even care! For an hour, it felt like all was right with the world.
Needless to say, it was completely awesome. Kristin not only gave three beautiful musical performances, she was downright hilarious. Someone seriously needs to give this woman another shot at being the lead in her own show.
Okay, so if you didn't see the show, Kristin was playing April Rhodes, a woman who was a senior and the star of the glee club when Will was a freshman. With Rachel having quit the club last week to take the lead in the school production of Cabaret, Will decided he needed to bring in a ringer and found out that his old crush April left school three credits short of graduating.
He tracked her down, finding her to be a trashy alcoholic who still had an amazing voice. Will convinced her to sober up and take a second chance at life, high school, and glee.
Kristin's first song, as she showed the glee kids what she could do, was Maybe This Time from Cabaret (which became a duet with Lea Michele's Rachel, as they cut back and forth between Rachel singing in rehearsal and April singing in glee) and, it goes without saying, it was beautiful. I especially loved that when she was done, Kurt was wiping a tear from his eye!
April didn't completely win the glee kids over, though, so Will encouraged her to try harder. This lead to some of Kristin's funniest work ever, as April encouraged Kurt to drink before school to boost his confidence (and gave him her vintage collection of muscle magazines!), taught Mercedes and Tina how to shop lift, and visited Puck and another of the football players in glee in the team shower!
Later, Will told April how much he'd always regretted never having sung with her, so she took him into the bar at the bowling alley and they did a fantastic duet of Heart's Alone. Kristin and Matthew Morrison sounded so great together.
Of course, Will eventually realized what a bad influence April was on the kids and, after she showed up drunk for their big show (but still managed to do a kick ass version of Carrie Underwood's Last Name), Will let her go. April had already figured out that she didn't really belong there, though, and that as good as it felt being in the spotlight again, she'd realized after the performance that she was taking it away from one of the kids. It was a nice way to wrap up her stint on the show and let Kristin show off more of an emotional side to go along with all the hilarity.
I've already purchased all three of Kristin's Glee song on iTunes and I'm sure they'll be at the top of my playlist in no time at all.
With all of that said, I was sad to see that Jane Lynch's Sue Sylvester only had one scene in the episode. I would have loved for her to have a scene with Kristin!
I should also say that I really don't want to see Glee become all about the big guest star of the week, so even though I completely adored tonight's show, I hope they make appearances like this an occasional, special thing and not a weekly, Will & Grace type of thing.
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