April Rhodes
General Information
Gender:	Female
Age:	38-39
Hair Color:	Blonde
Eye Color:	Blue
Birthday:	1973
Height:	4'11"
Occupation(s):	Owner of Rinky Dinks Singer Actress
Aliases:	Blowsy Loads, World Class Banana Magnet, Legendary Bratwurst Gobbler (Sue Sylvester) Mama (herself)
Family & Friends
Family:	Unnamed Twin Children
Relationships:	Buddy Leibowitz (affair) Will Schuester (high school crusher, ended; friends) Noah Puckerman (sexual partner, one-night-stand) Matt Rutherford (possible one-night-stand) Mike Chang (possible one-night-stand) Vinnie (high school sweetheart)
Friends:	New Directions Will Schuester
Enemies:	None
Other Information
Interests:	Alcohol, Singing
Education:	Dropped out of high school with three credits to graduate
Talent:	Singing
Strengths:	Singing, bowling
Weaknesses:	Alcoholism
Series Information
First appearance:	The Rhodes Not Taken
Last appearance:	Rumours
Portrayer:	Kristin Chenoweth

April Rhodes is a recurring character on Glee for seasons one and two. She once went to William McKinley High School with Will Schuester. April appears in two episodes in the first season, The Rhodes Not Taken and Home. She returns in Season Two in the episode Rumours and is mentioned in New York, but does not appear. In The Purple Piano Project, it is mentioned by Rachel that the man playing alongside April in her own original Broadway show won a Tony award, meaning that the show is doing very well.

April Rhodes is portrayed by Tony and Emmy-award winning Broadway actress Kristin Chenoweth.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Season One 1.2.1 The Rhodes Not Taken 1.2.2 Home 1.3 Season Two 1.3.1 Rumours 1.3.2 New York 2 Personality 2.1 Traits 3 Fashion sense and style 4 Relationships 4.1 Will Schuester 4.2 Noah Puckerman 4.3 Finn Hudson 4.4 Kurt Hummel 4.5 Rachel Berry 5 Songs 5.1 Solos 5.2 Solos (In a Duet) 5.3 Unreleased Songs 6 Trivia 7 Gallery 8 Quotes 9 Navigational 10 Comments

Biography

Early life

April is a talented singer who dropped out of high school in an attempt to go to Broadway but her dreams did not come true as she found herself pregnant with twins. After giving them up for adoption, she tried to find work on Broadway, but to no avail. She soon became an alcoholic and was eventually found by Will who urged her to get sober. After a long journey, April does decide to get sober as she wishes to go to Broadway and put up the first all white performance of "The Wiz".

Season One

The Rhodes Not Taken

Will decides to track April down and arranges a meeting at her mansion. April, drunk, greets Will who soon discovers that she is in fact a squatter and is broke. Will convinces April to return to school and join New Directions, which she does. When April is introduced to the glee kids, they question if older people may now join the club. April then belts out a confident performance of Maybe This Time.

After some trouble in class, Will tells April to bond with the kids and so, she teaches Mercedes and Tina to shoplift, hooks up with Puck and gives Kurt some male muscle magazines and liquor. She later does some bowling with Will, who reveals his admiration of April who, flattered, leads Will to sing Alone with her. She later shows up drunk to the club's invitationals, after almost hitting Emma with her car. This upsets Will and

leads him to kick her out after a performance of Last Name, in which she performs lead vocals. Before he could kick her out however, she admits to Will that she knows that high school is no longer her world and that she has no place in the school or up on stage with the kids. Instead, she decided to leave on her own, wishing Will and the kids well.

Home

April later appears when Will is searching for a new place for the club to rehearse. April is

singing at her roller rink (Rinky Dinks) and gets Will to sing Fire with her before offering up her rink as a rehearsal space. April also reveals that she is still drinking and is now the mistress of an elderly strip mall tycoon. April also expresses her desire to sleep with Will and so, she visits him at his apartment and sleeps over, singing One Less Bell to Answer/A House Is Not a Home with him. She also expresses how she doesn't want to be alone anymore.

Will once again attempts to persuade April to better herself and so April agrees to break it off with her new man. She later tells Will that her lover died and his wife gave her $2,000,000 in order to keep the affair a secret. April reveals that she is going to get sober and go to Broadway in order to put up the first all white performance of The Wiz. Lastly, April buys the auditorium for the Glee Club (renaming it the "The April Rhodes Civic Pavilion") and performs Home for Will with the glee kids singing back up.

Season Two

Rumours

April returned to McKinley High soon after her all-white show of The Wiz was universally panned on Broadway. She had decided to create her own musical about her life, and was surprisingly contacted by Terri Del Monico who suggested she ask Will to help her with the show. April jumped at the chance, and Will was more than happy to help. April eventually asked Will to join her on Broadway, which Will was very tempted. Sue and Terri meanwhile tried to "help" Will's decision to join April, but he instead opted to stay at McKinley. During her visit, she inspires Will to reunite New Directions by singing Fleetwood Mac songs, and together they perform a duet of Dreams. She is later seen sitting with Will in the auditorium watching the New Directions, Stevie, and Stacey perform Don't Stop.

New York

While in New York, Will meets April's manager and tells him that she and the crew were having lunch.

She has not appeared on the show ever since, but she may return.

Personality

April is laid-back, and pays no attention to consequences, as shown with her constant squatting. She has an addictive personality and no problem being in a relationship for money. She apparently is very wild and enjoys parties, drinking and is easily entertained, although she denies and doesn't like to talk about how she may be addicted. She is confident and talented but also very unprofessional for a singer, who appears to have given up on her dreams and now has no ambition. She doesn't appear to think about setting a good example, or worry about consequences, however seems to have good intentions on the whole. She is likable, fun, with a magnetic personality and a love for beverages. On the minus side, however, she lets this easily go out of control. She is extremely honest and upfront about being a washed up hasbeen.

Traits

Positive	Negative
Cheerful	Irresponsible
Party animal	Alcoholic
Fun	Lonely
Wonderful singer	Semi-desperate (has standards)
Seductive	Lies occasionally
Talented roller-blader

Fashion sense and style

April's fashion sense seems very bold and distinctive. She wears colorful, clashing items, which not many people attempt to pull off. She also appears to enjoy dressing as a cow-girl. Her outfits are usually skin-tight to show off her body.

Relationships

Will Schuester

Will had a crush on April when was a freshman and she was a senior in the high school Glee Club, but she didn't give him the time of day. In The Rhodes Not Taken, Will looks up his old crush online and gets her to return to New Directions to help win Regionals. But, his real reason for looking up April is to see what his life would have been like if he hadn't married Terri. Later in Home, Will runs into April at a local roller rink. They hit it off and April invites herself over to his house. They sleep in the same bed, but do not make love. Will isn't interested in a relationship with April if she is still drinking so he convinces her to sober up and head back to Broadway.

In Rumours, Terri convinces April to return to McKinley in hopes that she can lure Will away from New Directions. The sparks fly when they sing Dreams and April asks Will to join her show on Broadway. But, Will decides to stay with the Glee Club and Emma.

Noah Puckerman

She has sex with him in an attempt to get him on her side. Later on, when she is drunk, they kiss before going onstage to sing Last Name.

Finn Hudson

April admits to Rachel she has a crush on him saying I've got my eye on him Rachel gets very upset by this and says "Sorry April he's taken."

Kurt Hummel

April gives Kurt alcohol because she wants to get him on her side so she can stay in the New Directions. Later Kurt throws up on Emma's shoes because he has had too many drinks.

Rachel Berry

April and Rachel stand in the bathroom and the have an disagreement. April: Those high school boys are a lot hotter than they used to be. That Finn Hudson is one I gots my eye on. Rachel: I think your behavior is totally inappropriate. What you did in the past is your own business but don't screw up everyone else's.

Songs

Solos

Season One:

Solos (In a Duet)

Season One:

Season Two:

Unreleased Songs

Season Two:

• It's 10 AM And I'm Drunk (Rumours)

Trivia

• She is often referred to by Will as the most talented singer he's ever seen.
• She witnessed a man she was dating have a stroke in front of her. (Home)
• Sue refers to her as a "banana magnet" and a "bratwurst gobbler."
• She sold her copy of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours album for drug money.
• She is a fantastic shoplifter (shown in The Rhodes Not Taken).
• She can smuggle a watermelon out of a store by sticking it between her thighs while wearing a short, tight dress.
• She once snuck a birthday cake out of a party between her legs with the candles still lit.
• She bought the auditorium for the Glee Club.
• She has a Broadway show called Crossrhodes: The April Rhodes Story.
• She launched an all-white production of The Wiz, which turned out to be a "dee-saster." It was given a humiliating review by the New York Times.
• The guy who replaced Will in Crossrhodes: The April Rhodes Story won a Tony-award. This probably means that April's play is doing very well.
• She is the reason why Will joined the Glee Club in the first place.
• April once became an Avon lady just so she could rob demented seniors.
• She's had a duet with Will every time that she appeared, the exception being the 'duet' with Rachel in Maybe This Time.

Gallery

Quotes

“	Branson, eh?	”
—April, The Rhodes Not Taken

“	Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.	”
—April, The Rhodes Not Taken

“	I gots my eye on that Finn Hudson.	”
—April, The Rhodes Not Taken

“	You really thought that much of me?	”
—April, The Rhodes Not Taken

“	Alright fellas, grab a gal! Or, grab another fella if that's the way the good lord made ya!	”
—April, Home

“	Wait... I smell somethin'. I smell a duet comin' on!	”
—April, Home

“	I'm gonna wanna check the place out. I'm gonna wanna check the fong-shwong or the fing-fong or whatever they call it... Tell you what, I'm gonna go get myself a bikini wax... and I'ma see you tomorrow!	”
—April, Home

“	I haven't had a drink in forty-five minutes!	”
—April, Home

“	Well as I live and breathe! Will Schuester? I just had a sex dream about you!	”
—April, Home

“	You know what I call an afternoon where I get drunk? An afternoon!	”
—April, Rumours

“	Excuse me, do you know where a gal can find a pipin' hot cup of Will Schuester?	”
—April, Rumours

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