...with Amy Winehouse's Rehab"
Cast members of Glee.Photograph by: Matthias Clamer, FoxUNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — It was a subversive, and some might say perverse idea: Take the Amy Winehouse hit “Rehab” and stage it as a gaudy production number for a high-school show choir called Vocal Adrenaline.
The idea jumped into Glee-creator Ryan Murphy’s head one afternoon when he was stuck in freeway traffic and he heard the song on the radio.
Glee, Murphy’s gleeful, bouncy musical comedy about high-school losers who band together under the guidance of an understanding teacher to form a competitive show choir, has attracted early buzz in an otherwise buzz-free fall TV season.
“Our glee club is a bunch of lovable misfits, and they’re in competition with these villainous, glamorous groups you see online,” Murphy explained. “You look online and some of those groups are juggernauts. They look like they’re 30-years-old and could be on Broadway. I thought, well, what would the villainous, glamorous group sing? I heard that song, and I went, ‘Well, they’d sing Rehab’, not getting the irony of 16-year-olds singing Rehab.”
Staging Rehab as a full-blown musical number, with big, peppy bounces, jumps and tosses, was “great fun,” Murphy said.
“Because how do you take a song that’s about that and turn it into an anthem of spirit and loose limbs?”
Winehouse herself, when she heard what the Glee gang was doing, couldn’t have been more cooperative, Murphy said.
“We worked a long time on getting the arrangement right, and then we spent of time on the choreography to get that look and vibe. She was very cool in giving us the rights. I was surprised by that, but she did.”
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Posted 04 September 2009 - 02:33 PM
i watched it again just to hear rehab! great premise for a musical comedy show!
That was bloody brilliant!B-)
I was SO doing the Wino dance while singing it<3
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Posted 06 September 2009 - 07:31 AM
This is really nice, thanks for posting.
And I go back to... I go back to us.
Bruised, battered and desparate for a fag she may be, but Amy is our 21st Century Piaf: flawed yet fabulous, tormented yet towering. Think of her this way and hope that the still remarkably young woman under the eyeliner thinks that way too. - Jude Rogers, The Word
Bruised, battered and desparate for a fag she may be, but Amy is our 21st Century Piaf: flawed yet fabulous, tormented yet towering. Think of her this way and hope that the still remarkably young woman under the eyeliner thinks that way too. - Jude Rogers, The Word
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