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“Glee Live!” hits Vegas stage

Glee goes on the road in the US, but what do critics have to say?

Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas was centrestage for the second Glee concert tour on the weekend.

Cast members performed a string of songs for an enthusiastic audience. As well offering a flood of merchandise, it seems the event was keen to endorse characters, rather than the cast.

They sang songs featured in the show already, and by the looks of this photo, actor Kevin McHale was relegated to Artie’s wheelchair, despite being an able-bodied actor.

Would it have been too much of a shock to tweeny systems?

Here is an excerpt from the review from the LA Times:
The 7,500 fans all but drowned out the opening strains of “Don’t Stop Believin'” with shrieks, whistles and general paroxysms of joy, some while wearing red-trimmed jackets in homage to the show’s secondary glee club, the Warblers. Later, as cast members threaded their way through a Beatlemania ecstatic audience, it was difficult not to think that this was the rapture everyone has been tweeting about — this is how the world ends, not with a bang but a Warbler.

Say this for the cast of “Glee,” they are troupers. Less than two weeks after shooting the season finale in New York, everyone was on stage singing and dancing their hearts out (Matthew Morrison and Jane Lynch made appearances via taped video). Though second-season pet Darren Criss (Blaine) brought down the house with “Silly Love Songs” and still-reigning diva Lea Michele (Rachel) pulled out the stops with “Don’t Rain on My Parade, ” the show’s best numbers were invariably the big ones. Those were the songs that got everyone in the audience singing and dancing too and allowed some of the show’s best-loved performers — Amber Riley (Mercedes), Heather Morris (Brittany), Naya Rivera (Santana) and Jenna Ushkowitz (Tina) — to radiate real star power.

You can read more here.

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