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By Matthew Visser

ell it is official, Glee has
come to Douglas College.
Last Monday, November 29,

2010 marked the very first Glee Club
performance at Douglas College New
Westminster Campus and if you were one
of the few lucky ones who got to see the
performance you were not disappointed.
The show had a cast of eight performers
singing ten songs which varied from
“Come Fly With Me” by Michael

Buble sung very well by Greg Burke,

to “Somebody to Love” by Queen, and
“Under Pressure” and “Any Way You Want
It” by Journey.

Now you are probably thinking the
same thing I thought when I was told
Douglas College has a Glee Club, what?
And why? Well, I don’t know the answer
to these questions. Probably the best
answer is, why not? People have always
used this reason. This is probably the
reason why the hit TV show Glee has been
allowed to be on TV in the first place and
why so many people have fallen in love
with it. I must admit that I myself have
watched the. show and been impressed by
the performer’s talents and that the show
actually has good writers working for it.
But I will never admit to being a Glee
fanatic compared to some people out there
who are die hard Glee fans. In fact this
semester I have not had the time to watch
a TV show every week and watch a story
line grow and begin to care what happens
to the characters. Oh, how I have missed
Dr. House and his insults and satiric wit.

When did the idea of watching a
group of teenagers or young adults act as
teenagers dance and sing and have high

 

school problems become something that
is needed to watch? I can go to a day care
or a kindergarden and watch this. In just
one season it was nominated for nineteen
Emmy Awards, four Golden Globes, six
Satellite awards and fifty-seven other
awards, with wins including the 2010
Golden Globe award for Best Television
Series, Musical or Comedy, and Emmy
awards for Jane Lynch, guest-star Neil
Patrick Harris and Murphy’s direction of
the pilot episode.

Obviously this show is going to be on
TV for a while with all of this happening
to it in just one season.

But one thing I do enjoy about this show
is Jane Lynch who plays Sue Sylvester, the
very pompous and arrogant character who
makes me and thousands of others laugh.
She is the shit disturber who loves to ruin
the other characters lives; the antagonist
whose goal in her life is to destroy Glee
clubs. Jane plays this character perfectly
and should be recognized for her role in
Glee as making the show better.

Glee is becoming something that
is expanding and is grabbing hold of all
people who can either sing and dance
or just enjoy watching an entertaining
TV show. Glee is a great thing which is
allowing singers to come together and
be around people who enjoy singing and
dancing. And who knows, someone might
be the next Michael Buble or Celine Dion
out there and it was the Douglas College
Glee club who found them.

The Douglas College Glee Club is
over for now until the winter semester but
will begin again in January meeting every
Thursday at the New Westminster campus
in room 3285.