Lea Michele
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290 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Lea Michele’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yes, totally.
Yes, this is the story of my life. Talk about butterfly effect. Yeah, no, I was in LA. I had left Spring Awakening. I knew that this Glee audition was coming up, but I was like, whatever, whatever. It's never going to happen. They're never going to cast me. I was always told I was too Jewish looking for television. I wasn't like pretty enough, like all of that.
And I was driving in my little like mini coupe that I had rented in L.A., blasting Adele and singing at the top of my lungs on my way to my Glee audition. trying to make a right turn into the studio from the center lane because I'm from New York City. Right. And I totaled my car, played dead, but then realized if I'm dead, I can't audition.
So then I revived myself, literally left the car in the road, ran up the lot and walked in and they were like, you can go home. And I was like, I'm not going home. pulled the glass out of my hair, dropped it on the table, auditioned for Rachel Berry and got the part that day.
I mean, look, I guess I can't say right now that I'm not like Rachel because I'm really like proving myself. But look, there are a lot of things that we are different in. But I completely like her sense of determination. Like I've been working since I'm eight years old. Right. I just celebrated 30 years of working professionally. I did my first Broadway show when I was eight.
And talk about Butterfly Effect. I went on an audition with a friend and booked it for fun.
Yes.
My friend really wanted to be on Broadway. And there was an audition for Les Mis in our hometown. And she wanted to go. And then the night before, her father had a heart attack. And her mom called my mom and said, will you take her? Like, I don't want her to miss out on this opportunity. So my mom was like, tomorrow, Chloe wants to go on this audition. Hi, Chloe. And we're going to take her.
And I was like, well, I'm going to go too. And my dad was like, you can't sing, but you're a great dancer. Couldn't have been more wrong. And I sang a song and I booked it and I was on Broadway two weeks later.
Over Chloe and thousands of other talented, you know, girls.
I just continued to work from eight until 17, 18. I did Broadway shows and then I got Spring Awakening and that was sort of the biggest thing that I did as a, you know, sort of adult. That was a huge moment. It was like a great pre-Glee experience because it was like a mini Glee. It was like a Broadway just explosion of this amazing show like
we all blew up like it was do you know spring awakening of course i know spring awakening yeah so it was did you see that documentary you should watch it no but i i but i i recently saw some video of was it you and jonathan he's like crying he's like crying you're laughing at him or something everywhere but yeah that was great to kind of like talk about what that show was like and what that experience was like um and then after that i i booked glee and the rest is sort of history
That's a really good question. I think. So I think that I really knew – I had no television experience. So I didn't really know canceled, like not – like I didn't understand – Renewed. Right. Like I was just sort of like, oh, I got a TV show and it's, you know, going to be picked up for a season. Right.
And I was sort of maybe a little bit more skewing positive because I didn't have as much experience where maybe other people were probably like, now I understand that it's not as, you know –
um good or whatever so but i knew we had something really special i wasn't sure if people would like understand it everybody was like well is it high school musical well is it you know like the movie election like people couldn't really figure it out right but it was very clear that once it aired that we were like oh like uh-huh this is gonna be something
Now, I didn't think it was going to be what it became.
But I think we all knew at that point. Like, I remember being in my apartment and finding out that we got picked up. And we were like, okay. Like, this is it.
I remember... So, we did the...
pilot and I was back in New York and I think that Jenna Ashkowitz was at my apartment and we got the email that was like we got the 13 for season one right and we were like okay like we're going to New York like we're going to LA like this is it that's crazy and then we got the back nine right because there was a dub there was that there was like a yeah that season was long like I always think the end of season one Jonathan had to remind me the other day I think the end of season one is don't rain on my parade but it's not it's faithfully
I always think the same thing.
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