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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So that was the first thing we did. Before it was even on the air, we were doing Hot Topic tours. Oh, really? Yeah. And then we did a small little appearance thing in Australia. Yeah. And then we did our first. So we would film 22 episodes, record hundreds of songs, learn thousands of dance numbers, and then finish filming and within days go on tour immediately. That's insane. It was insane.
It was fucking hold on tight. Like don't have to like eat. Don't have to sleep. Don't have to poop. Like just when they need you, they need you. And if you're not filming, you were recording. If you weren't recording, you were in dance rehearsal. If you weren't in dance rehearsal, you were filming. If you weren't filming, you were in a fitting. You were always doing something.
And it was unbelievable. Like, it was extremely hard for, I mean, everyone. The fact that, yeah, we managed to put it all together and so well. I think that it was truly for the love, and I can't speak for everyone here, but I really believe that it was just for the love of what we knew we were doing and how important it was. Right.
Whether or not we all liked each other or whatever was going on, whether it was a day we loved each other or a day we didn't love each other or a day that someone was going through something or we just knew that this was so important. I mean, again, that that for me was one of the things that kept me going. Right. However tired we were.
This is where my memory like doesn't serve me. And there are other people on the show that are probably like screaming, being like, it was this number. Why can't you remember? Um, I think we had certain directors that would take a really long time. And then, of course, when Ryan would come, Ryan would know exactly what he wanted and it would be like great.
Obviously, when you're dealing with a number like we found love in a hopeless place where we're in a pool. Right. And we're doing synchronized swimming like that's going to take forever. Yeah. I do remember now the I think it was Michael Jackson episode and we were in a parking lot and it was late at night. And that was the first night that I was like, I cannot do this. Right. I need to leave.
Right. Like I have I'm going to leave. Right. I'm dying. I'm so tired. Right. That for me stands out as one where I was like, it was just taking so long and it was so late at night and we were really, really tired.
I think there were numbers like that, but then there were numbers that whenever there was an element to it, like the singing in the rain where it's like raining, stuff like that would just always be hard when you're dealing with an element on top of just having to sing and dance. Right.
And the nationals and sectionals and regionals always took the longest.
I love that so much. I remember that day like it was yesterday. I literally remember... So I think it had been at that time. So we ended up doing 800 musical numbers that day. Maybe we'd hit 500 and they had every number on. I've never told anyone the story before they were shooting. What are those like the little like if it's like Powerball, those like balls, what are those called?
You know, it's like these are the numbers. If you win like like bingo balls. Yeah, but like little light whatever balls. That's the best I can do. Yeah. And they were like shooting them out with like a gun. Okay. And on each ball was a name of a song. And they shot out like 500 in the auditorium.
Just to be like, yay, we did 500 numbers. Yeah. Catch a little fucking ball. I don't know. I actually stepped outside because I was like, I needed like a minute. And Corey walked outside and he was like, look what I got. He's like, I just randomly picked a ball off the floor and it was don't rain on my parade.
And funny enough, like I have so many special things from the show, but that I will never let go of that little fucking whatever you want to call it ball. Oh, yeah. It's so like so like it's funny how some things I remember so clearly and then other things I have no memory of whatsoever.
But I think that like that has to do with when things were like really intense or when, you know, it was a little bit of a not so intense time on the show.
Yeah.
Of course. And there were no rules. Everyone was figuring it out as we were going like. It's not like the people who created the show were like, we have a formula and we know how to do this where everyone feels supported and, you know, has protection. It's like it was everyone was kind of figuring it out. Right. And we were so young and we were, you know, what I think I started when I was 22.
Oh, my God. You know, and I and I ended when I was 27, maybe 20.
yeah i don't know i'm 28 now it's like how am i how are you even supposed to do this kind of math um but no i'm 38 and proud of it um but yeah sorry continue no i just yeah it's just we were so young we really were and do you remember like was there ever like did life imitate art in the sense that like was anyone ever fighting for a song Not that I can remember.
I do know that it was very clear when you would hear a song on the radio, you would be like, that's going to be in a script next week and you're going to get it.
It was very clear who would get what songs based on the artists of the time. So I don't remember, but I remember I would hear a song on the radio and be like, oh, I hope that that song is going to be on the show. But we were doing so much that, like, I never felt – like, I felt very, like, satiated in that I was doing a lot of different stuff. Right.
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