Wicked's Menzel in Talks to Guest on "Glee"

By Adam Hetrick
09 Dec 2009

Tony Award winner Idina Menzel is in negotiations to play a recurring role on Fox's "Glee," according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Menzel would portray the coach of McKinley High's rival glee club Vocal Adrenaline. The Wicked and Rent star will likely appear in all nine of this season's remaining episodes.

On a recent episode of "Glee," Lea Michele and Chris Colfer covered "Defying Gravity," the song Menzel originated in Wicked. Tony Award nominee Jonathan Groff has also been confirmed to portray the lead member of Vocal Adrenaline in the spring episodes of the series.

Matthew Morrison (South Pacific, The Light in the Piazza) stars as Spanish teacher Will Schuester with Spring Awakening's Lea Michele as glee club Broadway baby Rachel Berry and fellow glee club members Jenna Ushkowitz (Spring Awakening) as Tina, Chris Colfer as Kurt, Kevin McHale as Artie, Cory Monteith as Finn Hudson and Amber Riley as Mercedes Jones.

The ensemble cast also includes Jane Lynch as cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester, Jessalyn Gilsig as Terri Schuester, Jayma Mays as teacher Emma Pillsbury, Dianna Agron as cheerleader Quinn and Mark Salling as football player Puck.

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