I have become hooked on some of the Youtube versions of their performances. As a not-very-accomplished musician, I can’t pretend to understand the ecstasy from delivering such joy to people, but I have been a comedian, actor, and director in my day. And I can definitely relate to this director’s reaction as his cast performs:
To get the full effect, you’ll have to watch the whole 6-something minute video here, but it brought back a lot of memories of when I had folks out on stage doing amazing things. BTW, I’m not saying that Glee is the best art on TV – probably on a par with American Idol. But it does capture the fear/rapture of performing live…
Also BTW, the theatre in this clip is fairly similar to the Capitol, here in Moncton, whose board I am vice president of. [Attention grammar police!]