Not your stereotypical starlet, Glee’s LEA MICHELE prefers reality TV to nights on the town and calls kissing Ashton Kutcher “child’s play.”
joe yogerst talks to her about Broadway, Barbra and being different
 

TONIGHT IS THE night for anyone in the music business – the eve of the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. But rather than flitting in and out of the glam parties scattered around town, Lea Michele Sarfati – to use her full name – is having a quiet dinner with her father, who’s visiting from New York. And in case you think that’s an aberration, consider that the previous weekend, the paparazzi snapped Michele emerging from a Beverly Hills salon with none other than…her mother. That … Read the rest

For her film debut in “New Year’s Eve,” “Glee’s” resident show-stopper Lea Michele found herself in good hands.

Her cast members included such A-listers as Robert De Niro, Sarah Jessica Parker, Zac Efron, Halle Berry, Jessica Biel, Hilary Swank, Michelle Pfeiffer, Katherine Heigl and Jon Bon Jovi.

Behind the camera was Garry Marshall, a filmmaker who helped boost the early careers of both Julia Roberts and Anne Hathaway with, respectively, “Pretty Woman” and “The Princess Diaries” films.

And doing the costumes was Lower Saucon resident Gary Jones, a Oscar-nominated designer who has dressed everyone from Frank Sinatra to Taylor Swift, and Jane Fonda to Kirsten Dunst.

“It was the most perfect fit for my first film,” says Michele. “I got … Read the rest

An Interview With Lea Michele, One of the Leads in Fox’s ‘Glee’

A ruthless brunette with a killer set of pipes who bulldozes through high school with starry ambitions? Takes one to play one. Lea Michele, who launched her Broadway career at age 8, seems to feel nothing but warm kinship for Rachel Berry, the alter ego she plays on “Glee” — Fox’s new show about, you guessed it, a high school glee club. A singing, dancing club member with a pair of stage dads and an eye on stardom, Rachel at one point announces, “There is nothing ironic about show choir.”

A Manhattan native, Michele has lived in her own apartment since she graduated from high school (she’s putting … Read the rest

Lately, it’s been Spring (Awakening) Fever on Broadway with fans, celebrities and more coming to see the new show – not to mention that it received the best reviews of the 2006/2007 theatre season. In this first of a three part series, we check in with the second of the show’s talented young stars – Lea Michele, who created the role of Wendla in Spring Awakening – 7 years ago!

Before we get into Spring Awakening, let’s rewind a bit – where were you born and raised?
I was born in the Bronx, and that’s still where most of my extended family lives right now. But at a young age my parents decided that it would be best for me, … Read the rest