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Theatricality
Season One, Episode Twenty
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Theatricality is the twentieth episode in the first season of Glee. It was supposed to air on June 1 but was swapped with Funk. Emma, Terri and Sue didn't appear in this episode. It is written and directed by Ryan Murphy.

Rachel finds out who her mother is and is shocked, as is the rest of New Directions.

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PlotEdit

Performance of 'Bad Romance'
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The episode begins with Principal Figgins telling Tina that she can no longer dress in her gothic fashion, alarmed by a spate of pseudo–vampirism in the school, inspired by the Twilight Saga. When Rachel discovers that Vocal Adrenaline is planning on performing a Lady Gaga number at Regionals, Will sets the club a Gaga assignment.

Kurt and Tina are bullied for their Gaga costumes by Karofsky and Azimio. The girls and Kurt create costumes inspired by Lady Gaga and perform Bad Romance.

While spying on a Vocal Adrenaline rehearsal, Rachel realizes that their director, Shelby Corcoran, is her birth mother because her voice sounded like the voice on a cassette tape (recognized for their impeccable sound clarity) Jesse had "found" in her room. She introduces herself, and Shelby makes her a better Lady Gaga costume because Rachel inexplicably has two gay dads that can't sew.

Puck suggests to Quinn that they name their daughter Jackie Daniels, but she declines. The rest of the male club members then dress as the band Kiss and perform Shout It Out Loud.

Will meets with Shelby, concerned that she is not as invested in forging a relationship as Rachel is. Shelby confesses that she can no longer have children, but wishes she could have her baby back, rather than the now fully grown Rachel, whom she feels does not need her.

Performance of 'Shout It Out Loud'
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Kurt's father Burt invites Finn and his mother Carole to move in with them. Finn feels awkward sharing a room with Kurt, who has a crush on him, and insults several items in his bedroom as being "faggy" after losing his temper. Burt overhears and chews Finn out, telling him he cannot live with them, despite knowing it could possibly cost him his relationship with Carole.

Puck, in an attempt to show Quinn he is serious about being a father, has the other males sing Beth with him, suggesting they give the name to their daughter. She agrees that he can be present at her birth.

Shelby tells Rachel that instead of trying to act like mother and daughter, they should just be grateful for one another from afar for a while. Rachel hugs her goodbye, and they aptly perform a duet on an acoustic mother-daughter version of Poker Face.

Glee clubers stand up for Kurt
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In the halls, Kurt is being bullied and Finn, who has created his own Lady Gaga costume, tells Karofsky and Azimio he will not let them hurt Kurt, and he is backed by the rest of the glee club all in their Gaga and Kiss costumes, leading the bullies to run away calling them freaks.

QuotesEdit

Shelby: Ladies, I don't wanna hear about chafing just because you're being forced to wear metal underwear. Not my problem.

Shelby to Vocal Adrenaline, Theatricality

Rachel to Shelby during their Goodbye "Bring It."

Quinn: You wanna name our DAUGHTER Jack Daniels? She's a girl.

Puck: Okay, fine - whatever. Jackie Daniels.

Quinn and Puck, Theatricality

Kurt: She changes her look faster than Britt changes sexual partners.

Brittany: It's true.

Kurt and Brittany, Theatricality

Tina: My mom won't even let me watch Twilight. She thinks Kristen Stewart seems like a bitch.

Tina, Theatricality

Rachel: Ms. Corcoran? I'm Rachel Berry. I'm your daughter.

Rachel to Shelby, Theatricality

TriviaEdit

  • Heather Morris said that her Lady Gaga costume was very uncomfortable because her vision obscured by the lobster, gave her a headache, and took 45 minutes to take on and off due to all the wires and things keeping the lobster on. They supposedly made it easier to change into for the tour.
  • The episode was watched by 11.5 million viewers.
  • Matt gets his first line this episode: "Yeah, and I'm dressed as the guy who replaced Artie when he quit."
  • Because Jenna's costume was plastic bubbles squeezed together she would have to hold her breath between takes when there was dialogue because the bubbles would squeak when she spoke.
  • Lea's costume was made from stuffed animals the costume department found at yard sales, they just took the stuffing out so it wouldn't be so heavy.
  • As Chris Colfer explained his shoes, the costume department went to a cross-dressing store and bought red high heel boots, broke down the heel and built Chris's shoe around it.
  • Kevin comments that "Shout It Out Loud" was probably the funniest performance to date for the boys because they had an "out of body experience" with their make-up on.
  • There was one whole makeup trailer for the boys' makeup.
  • Behind the scenes, Jonathan Groff was seen walking around with Lea Michele in Vocal Adrenaline's Lady Gaga costumes. This implies that although it was never revealed in the episode, he was in fact practicing with Vocal Adrenaline for Regionals.
  • Theatricality was originally supposed to air after Funk, but the order was switched because they went over their budget in producing the episode, and the American Idol season finale was to be aired right before Funk. They knew they would receive more viewers for whichever episode was aired after the season finale, so they switched Funk with Theatricality to earn more profit and reduce their losses.
  • The costumes in this episode were all inspired by Lady Gaga or KISS

SongsEdit

Guest StarsEdit

Special Guest Star

Guest Cast

Co-Stars

Lady Gaga Inspired CostumesEdit


ProductionEdit

Behind the scenes of Theatricality. L-R: Mercedes Jones, Rachel Berry (far away), Will Schuester (far away), Kurt Hummel, Quinn Fabray, Tina Cohen-Chang.
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The episode shows the glee club as two separate groups. The girls and Kurt performing Lady Gaga's Bad Romance, and the rest of the boys performing Shout It Out Loud by Kiss. Bad Romance took six hours to film with series creator Ryan Murphy, who also directed the episode, describing it as "big and athletic and hard." Lea Michele, who plays Rachel Berry, damaged her knee from exertion during the performance. As well as giving Glee the rights to her songs, Lady Gaga also loaned the series her costume designer to recreate her signature looks. Murphy stated that, because of the elaborate staging and costuming, the performance of Bad Romance was the show's most expensive number to date. The impetus for the Lady Gaga tribute in the episode comes from glee club member Tina, with Jenna Ushkowitz explaining: "Tina, in the Gaga episode, has a little bit of a problem expressing herself. She gets in trouble for the way she dresses. So she has to go through a little bit of a change for a little while. And therefore you will see some Gaga in there. She's slowly coming out of her box. Making her way out of her shell." The Kiss number the boys perform is Shout It Out Loud which features Cory Monteith on drums. The episode also includes an acoustic performance of Lady Gaga's Poker Face, performed by glee club member Rachel (Lea Michele) with rival glee club director, Shelby Corcoran (Idina Menzel), who Rachel discovers is actually her birth mother.

Recurring guest star Mike O'Malley appears in the episode as Kurt's father, Burt Hummel, sharing a scene with Colfer and Monteith which Colfer described as the most emotional scene of the series up until that episode, explaining: "Reading it on paper I had no idea it was going to be that intense. Once I got into it, then I kind of realised, 'Oh, there's such a bigger meaning behind this. Oh my God, this is so dramatic.'"

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  • 0h My gAga.

  • I NEVER realized Speechless was featured!!!

    Life=complete.

    by Gliebe
  • a lady gaga tribute should be:

    the edge of glory: santana mercedes brittnay sugar shelby with the troubletones

    marry the night: rachel santana and tina

    judas: rachel santana with nd girls

    alejandro:santana

    just dance: brittany and artie

    paparazzi:quinn

    love game/poker face(original version): kurt and quinn with nd

    scheibe:sue (i`d love to see that lol!)

  • The room scene was intense.

  • This is the first episode I saw of Glee which is sad :( But as soon as this episode was over I watched the rest online, and eventually bought both of the DVDs that were out at the time, I'm just waiting for the first DVD from Season 3 to come out ;)

  • its funny how karofsky wanted to beat them all up at the end even the girls which is sad cuz he doesnt noe that u dont hit a girl let alone a girl thats gonna pop any second now

  • after see paparazzi dress i want to see quinn sunging this...

  • quinn and rachel have the best costumes tina too.

  • I didn't ever realie this before, my friend pointed it out, Puck wanted to name the baby after alcohol, Jack Daniels, and then he suggested Jackie Daniels, a porn star :|

  • the best costumes are of Tina,Santana,Brittany and Quinn,in this order. Sorry but i do not like the costumes of Rachel,Mercedes and Kurt very much.

  • i like how in 'bad romance' rachel didnt get a solo, it gave some more people like tina and santana a chance to sing, rachel's a great singer but some others need more solos :) ps watching this episode right now!

  • I'm watching this episode right now!!

  • Isn't it ironic how the whole point of the show was equality and then guys don't want to do Gaga???? She is a pop queen and if they did it not to look gay or girly or whatever that kiss number was much more girly although it is a man band or whatever... I mean how come they didn't want to do gaga but wanted to do kiss????

    • You now how idiot sound "A boy like Kiss, but don´t like Gaga". I like Gaga more that Kiss, but it's obvius that Kiss is more masculine...

  • I'm still trying to figure out how the girls sat down in those outfits, especially Tina and Quinn

    • From what I've seen in photos, Tinas bubbles stop around her hips and from then it was a white skirt and both her and Quinn sat at stools so the back of the normal chairs wouldn't be in the way. Also Quinns dress went around the stool so she never actually sat ON it:)

  • awesome episode!

  • Ilove Quinn's costume.it's way better than Gaga's!!!!

  • The more I watching this episode, the more I can see why it was supposed to be the penultimate episode of season 1. Did they ever explain why they chose to air "Funk" instead?

  • omg heather morris is jut like lady gaga's sister in that outfit

  • I kind of hate Finn here. What he did to Kurt was a really douchey think to do. :| Poor Kurt.

    • The thing for me about what Finn did to Kurt that it was almost Kurt's fault that it happened. I am in no way defending Finn for the things he said, but I honestly think Kurt pushed it too far; he has a tendency to avoid reality when in love, and put too much pressure on Finn. Like I said, no way in defending Finn, but still.

  • Ok since I found out that Funk was supposed to air BEFORE Theatricality, I just watched Dream On, Funk, then Theatricality and it actually makes more sense, because in Funk, Jesse St. James left New Directions and went back to Vocal Adrenaline, and he wasn't even shown in Theatricality, well he was shown in costume but you didn't really see his face. It also makes sense that at the end of Theatricality Mr. Schue says "Next Stop" Regionals!" and the next episode after that was Regionals..

  • I loved Rachel's second gaga outfit. It was really well made. But Quinn's was simply amazing

  • This episode made me like the song bad romance, but poker face was pretty hard to listen to.

    • I agree, although I think the only reason I prefer Bad Romance is because it has Chris Colfer in it. It's not like there's a problem with that or anything though...

  • I am actually in love with Puck in this episode :) x

  • So, if you were in this episode, what outfit would you wear? I would wear Lady Gaga's origami dress.

  • wow i just rewatched this episode and i must say that I really REALLY DISLIKED Kurt on this episode.

    • I actually didn't really like him so much in most of season one.. :/ He was really horrible. I love what they've done with his character in season two.

    • Yeah, Kurt was very concieted in season 1. He went through some really hard times in season 2, and grew up a lot.

    • I like Kurt with Blaine a lot better than Kurt by himself. Blaine is a calming presence for Kurt, and it makes him a lot nicer (in my opinion).

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