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EJ Panaligan editor An upcoming three-part docuseries from Discovery+ and ID will seek to explore the behind-the-scenes controversies of Fox’s “Glee” series. With access to key cast and crew members, the documentary from Ample Entertainment will have its subjects share first-hand stories of their time on the show, which aired between 2009 and 2015. Topics discussed will unveil the highs and lows of show’s production, and will also include testimonials of close family and friends of the cast and production crew. The series is currently untitled, but aims to discuss the complicated and difficult subjects that the actors experience behind-the-scenes. Such as the loss of actor Cory Monteith, who played Finn, who succumbed to an accidental heroin overdose.

Do not expect to see Chris Colfer in the audience for Lea Michele’s Broadway show Funny Girl.

EXCLUSIVE: Discovery+ and ID are exploring the real story behind Fox’s hit series Glee.

Chris Colfer‘s quote about his Glee co-star Lea Michele is going viral.

Jonathan Groff is Lea Michele‘s biggest fan, and he just paid her a lofty compliment.

A reunion that won’t happen. Chris Colfer recently passed on the chance to see fellow Glee alum Lea Michele in Funny Girl — and he has no plans to check out her performance in the future.

Julie Benko is currently the alternate for Lea Michele in Broadway’s Funny Girl and she performs the role of Fanny Brice every Thursday night.

Lea Michele is heading to work.

Darren Criss watched his friend and former "Glee" co-star sing "Don't Rain on My Parade," this time not as Rachel Berry, but as Fanny Brice.  In the hit Fox show, Michele played Berry, who was an aspiring Broadway performer. On various occasions throughout the duration the show, Michele belts out one of musical's signature songs, "Don't Rain on My Parade."   In a truly full circle moment, a fictional story became reality when Michele took over as Fanny Brice, a role famously held by Barbra Streisand and later Beanie Feldstein and her "Glee" co-star was quick to show support.  Darren Criss showed support for his former "Glee" co-star by attending the Broadway production of "Funny Girl" where she recently took over the role of Fanny Brice.  (Bruce Glikas/WireImage) Michele posted a picture to her Instagram of Criss, along with his wife Mia in attendance at the show.  "The amount of times this guy has heard me sing Don't Rain on My Parade," Michele captioned the post.

Lea Michele is giving fans a sneak peek at her performance in the Broadway musical Funny Girl!

It’s a mini “Glee” reunion.

Darren Criss watched her former co-star, Lea Michele, perform “Don’t Rain On My Parade’ … again.  On Wednesday, the actress, who currently plays Fanny Brice in the Broadway production of, shared a picture of her, Criss and his wife, Mia, backstage after the show and joked about the amount of times her former co-star has seen her perform the song.

On the TV series “Glee,” Lea Michele honed an image of being Barbra Lite. There is nothing light about her playing Fanny Brice in the current Broadway revival of “Funny Girl,” which opened last spring and now stars Michele in the title role.

Well, that’s that. After all the controversies and badly handled original castings and headlines and backstage bruisings and firings or resignations or whatever they were, Funny Girl is, as so many suspected all along, the musical that Lea Michele was born to lead. Broadway’s new Fanny Brice is, to put is simply and without exaggeration, a knock-out.

Lea Michele brought Broadway to television when she appeared on Friday’s edition of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”.

Actress Lea Michele has made her triumphant return to the Broadway stage in the Funny Girl revival, though her son wasn’t as enthused.

Jonathan Groff encouraged his best friend Lea Michele to make a change to the Broadway revival of Funny Girl when she joined the cast as Fanny Brice earlier this month.

The Piano Lesson led the pack of Broadway’s recent arrivals at the box office last week, with the August Wilson revival starring Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington and Danielle Brooks grossing $795,306 for its first seven performances at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.

Kevin McHale is opening up about his former Glee co-star Lea Michele and her new role in Funny Girl.

Going in new directions? Kevin McHale hasn’t rushed to see former Glee costar Lea Michele in Funny Girl on Broadway just yet.

Lea Michele is back on Broadway after being sidelined from Funny Girl due to a bout of COVID-19.

After years of combating rumors that she cannot read,  "Glee" actress Lea Michele decided to get in on the joke by posting a TikTok. In a viral TikTok that actually originates from an episode of "Keeping up with the Kardashians" Michele is seen mouthing what Kim Kardashian originally says to Joe Francis in a moment of panic, with the sentence, "Calling Jonathan to read me the comments on my first TikTok," appearing on the screen.

Lea Michele just joined TikTok, and she's proving that she can laugh at herself in her hilarious first post on the app.In the video, shared Sunday, the  actress used audio from the Kardashians to poke fun at rumors that she can't read. Michele holds up a phone as if she's speaking to someone while lip-synching to the audio from a 2017  scene, which sees Kim Kardashian taking a phone call with her friend, Joe Francis.«Hey,» Michele mouths.

This is too funny!

Lea Michele has a good sense of humor.

Lea Michele joined TikTok!

Lea Michele is now on TikTok and she’s recreating a viral video about her!

A brush with COVID-19 won’t rain on Lea Michele‘s parade.

Lea Michele has tested positive for COVID-19. The 36-year-old actress has confirmed via social media that she's set to miss several performances of 'Funny Girl', her new show on Broadway, after contracting the virus. Lea - who plays Fanny Brice in the production - wrote on her Instagram Story: "In following production protocol I cannot return to the theater for 10 days.