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but of course, new directions were cockroaches. they found themselves a temporary rehearsal space in the basement of jones house! and fittingly enough, they performed times are hard for dreamers from  amélie on stools while wearing different colored shirts to truly end ballad week. hopefully for good! because the new directions were already given their next assignment: divided into six groups to perform choreography-heavy numbers incorporating their assigned dance genre! and not only that but glee club co-captains stella and julian seemed to be in disagreement for their sectionals concept, so now the group must choose between whose concept sparked their interest more! so much drama, so maybe this was why they lost last year! but no matter who they chose, at least stella nasr got to perform with the the all-american rejects when they randomly threw a concert at school. wyatt callahan must've been so traumatized. but on a completely different, monsieur thibault bellamy-delacroix finally started conducting auditions for wicked, with the help of his friends lea michele and conall lysander. and the results were quite shocking. oh, you want to know it now?

well, let's fast forward... today is october 31st, 2026. it's halloween so it's time to dress up! it's also the closing show of the bijou's rocky horror for this season, which has been sold out every night in its five-day run, so congratulations to the cast! and it's also the birthday of sydney fennewick, milo callahan, bear stone, and sage thornton. wow, there are just so many things to celebrate tonight.

thankfully, aidan walsh had been kind enough to offer his penthouse apartment as a venue for this hallowbirthwrap party. but of course, the cast and callback list for wicked has also been posted today, so let's see who will celebrate or drink their sorrows away.

for elphaba, mckenna rosen has received the part, with stella nasr as her understudy! yeah, you heard that right. i'm scared, too! not just for mckenna, but anyone who might find themselves in stella's path! she must've redeemed all that good karma with her performance with that band. as for glinda, guinevere gunn and clementine brandt are both called back for another round of audition. we also have another round of callback between august bianchi and micah de leon for fiyero. meanwhile, bear stone has been cast as boq, aidan walsh as the wizard of oz, savannah grady as madame morrible, rhys davenport as doctor dillamond, and emerson wren as nessarose. sullivan vane and abilene perez will also be playing frexpar and malena, respectively, the father and mother of elphaba and nessarose. sienna mercer will be playing shenshen, and oliver aquino will be playing pfannee. carter cortez will be understudying for the wizard of oz, hollis navarrette for boq, caleb ainsley for doctor dillamond, while juliette lewis will play the midwife as well as understudy for madame morrible.

how exciting! hopefully, nothing happens to turn that production upside down, right? you just never know what'll happen around these parts. but if there's one i know, it's that we're going to have fun tonight. because people are bringing drinks, edibles, questionable costumes, and minds primed for terrible decisions... and it isn't a glee club party without karaoke! but careful, saint rivera, because there's evil brewing in this halloween air. coach steele might not be here, but i can feel her... wait, no, it's just cecelia! surely, she's not up to no good... actually... do you guys know that app that she's making everyone sign-up for if they want to play seven minutes in heaven and be assigned into a random closet in aidan's huge ass penthouse with someone? i'm sorry to tell you but that app is actually #RIGGED by her to pair up people based on the potential drama it'll cause. anything to get back in coach steele's good graces! so so so deliciously evil. i can't wait to see how everything changes after this. because once those doors close and the timers start, no one might ever know what happens inside. friendships might change, new relationships might blossom, and lives could be ruined or improved depending entirely on who's inside with you. will secrets stay secret? will enemies become lovers? will there be any jealousy afoot or which people will just have a terribly awkward time inside?! so much possibility in what might just be the longest night of their lives. and most importantly, who's going to clean all the glitter that's somehow still following everybody around wherever they go?!

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it's a little muddy how the members of new directions actually got him to join their devastatingly pathetic club, especially when half of them would consider him an untalented muscle chad. some say it's a deal to tutor him so he doesn't have to take another year to graduate, some say it's blackmail, but all that you really need to know is … that facecard? never declines. he's practically the face of the athletics department's brochures and posters, alongside cheerios captain, cecelia sinclair!

and now with both of saint rivera's patron saints of college popularity in new directions, everyone else has come running to audition so they can get the behind-the-scenes tea or pretend that they have always respected show choir. hell, the athletes might even outnumber the performance geeks in their own club soon enough! all hell might just break loose when that time comes!

today is september 22, 2026, and it has been a month since our students returned on campus, and new directions is beginning to look like campus' newest and hottest trend. but they're going to need to be more united if they want to maintain their surge in popularity.

because here's a secret not many people know about: popularity isn't something that can be just generated out of thin air, it's redistributed. and whenever one group starts getting attention, it's only a matter of time until another is paid dust and questions are raised!

like, " why does the cheerios get all the budget? "

or " why do they have their own private training gymnasium while glee club practices in a room with peeling paint and a potential gas leak? "

which brings us to the woman who does not want you to ask these questions … coach shauna steele. even just saying her name feels like i'm summoning the boogeyman! but as scary as she might be, she has the nerve, the gall, and the gumption to always get what she wants and run the cheerios like a military institution with glitter requirements. i mean, five consecutive championship titles and named coach of the year twelve times by the national cheerleading association? that takes talent … and she doesn't like being overshadowed by a bunch of losers.

so, cecelia sinclair, goldie lewis, and sully vane? congratulations, you are now secret agents for the cheerleading-industrial complex, tasked by coach steele to rope in the other cheerios in new directions and destroy glee club from the inside out together. but make it seem natural, so no plain sabotage and cartoon villainy, of course! don't be suspicious! but they better start weaponizing their influence and popularity to question song choices, encourage cliques, and spread stupid rumors about interpersonal relationships to turn everyone against each other, because cecelia's position as cheerios captain is at stake here!

then, we have eugena davis, clementine brandt and micah de leon, a potentially great troublesome trio if i've ever seen one! but their job is more about influencing the rest of the student body for now. they just need to convince people that glee already peaked and joining is so uncool. i mean, competitive synchronized singing and dancing? can anything be more corny and gauche?! but overturning their newfound popularity means problem solved for coach steele and the cheerios. god forbid the glee club dip into their bi-monthly weekend wellness spa getaway funds!

but while forces of not-necessarily-evil are planning their downfall, new directions are just trying not to implode a month into the school year. before they can prepare for sectionals, they must learn more about each other first. there are just suddenly way too many people, too many personalities, and too many friend groups.

so faculty advisor and resident cool music production professor, bobby kelmeckis, have decided on their first assignment for the semester.

it starts with a hat and names inside, a quick and easy way to create random pairs. these pairs must then create a mash-up performance together of songs that represent each person, blending two identities into one mash-up song as a way to introduce themselves to each other and the rest of the club. oh, how worlds collide! isn't that just exciting?!

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because  this  week,    it  might  just  be  all  about  emotional  maturity,    conflict  resolution,    and  the  students  of  saint  rivera  finally  learning  the  importance  of  letting  others  break  your  walls  down.    but  operative  word  here  is  might.    i  mean,    let's  not  get  #UNREALISTIC!    this  is  gen  z  we're  talking  about. emotions  are  so  embarrassing  to  them,    and  it'll  be  hard  to  let  their  guard  down  when  they're  finally  getting  that  coolness  back.    why  would  anyone  try  to  ruin  it  with  an  emotionally  devastating  natalie  imbruglia  medley?    c'mon,    new  directions  is  trending!    people  who  openly  called  show  choir  the  most  embarrassing  club  on  campus  are  now  posting  instagram  stories  captioned  like:

"    lowkey  thinking  about  auditioning...    "    and   "    ...wait,  why  are  they  actually  good  now?    "

and  have  you  seen  all  the  fan  edits?    we  expected  this  from  marijoy,   not  other  members  of  the  student  body.    somebody  even  made  an  anonymous  confession  page  dedicated  entirely  to  ranking  members  by  vocal  versatility,    sexy  emotional  baggage,    and  kissability.    and  somehow  hockey  besties  #JESSBROOKS  are  at  the  top  of  the  rankings  and  they're  not  even  in  glee  club?    maybe  someone  should  recruit  them! but  things  are  definitely  getting  serious  with  glee  club.    #MASHUPWEEK  have  definitely  brought  most  of  them  closer  together,    and  sectionals  doesn't  feel  like  a  big  fat  joke  anymore  after  last  year's  catastrophic  failure.    people  are  already  talking  like  they  have  everything  it  takes  to  redeem  themselves  and  avoid  another  shitshow,    and  some  are  already  dreaming  about  performing  at  nationals  in  the  city  of  angels. but  when  people  start  dreaming  too  big,    disaster  arrives.  naturally.    because  every  campus  ecosystem  demands  balance  one  way  or  another,    and  this  disaster  has  the  name  of  monseur  thibault  bellamy-delacroix. nationally-renowned  professor  of  vocal  performance,    director  of  the  annual  winter  musical,    a  french-canadian  transplant  turned  local  artistic  terrorist  of  saint  rivera.   and  don't  forget  playbill  online's  sexiest  man  alive  2023,    or  he'll  remind  you  himself.    non-theatre  fans  beware,    because  every  conversation  with  him  feels  like  he's  accepting  a  #LIFETIMEACHIEVEMENTAWARD,    every  outfit  he  wears  includes  a  scarf  even  when  he  spends  most  of  his  time  indoors,    and  the  type  to  tell  students   "    honey,    your  diaphragm  sounds  illiterate  right  now,    "    and  somehow  get  a  standing  ovation  for  it.

and  last  year's  musical  was  modest,    but  this  year?    he  looked  straight  in  the  eyes  of  every  member  of  the  administration  when  budget  concerns  were raised,   and  he  said:    "    what  if  we  simply  ignore  those?    "   

because  saint  rivera's  winter  musical  this  year  is  none  other  than  WICKED!    yes,    that  wicked.    elaborate  moving  setpieces,    flying  rigs,    colorful  costumes,    green  body    paint,    and  high  notes  so  difficult  that  they  should  probably  be  considered  as  weapons  of  mass  eardrum  destruction.    plus,    coach  steele  has  taken  a  liking  to  bellamy-delacroix,    promising  to  share  her  glitter  and  confetti  budget  with  the  winter  musical  if  he  promises  to  put  those  #THEATREGEEKS  in  glee  club  to  work  to  make  sure  they're  running  on  fumes  by  sectionals. and  bellamy-delacroix's  audition  instructions?    prepare  their  most  dramatic  and  vocally  impressive  in  their  repertoire.    he's  not  looking  for  authenticity  here,    not  yet  at  least.    he  wants  to  find  people  who  can  sing  and  has  the  charisma  to  captivate  an  audience  for  three  hours  first!    and  he  isn't  looking  for  a  safe  choice  either,    he  wants  you  to  collapse  on  your  knees  and  stare  at  the  stage  lights  like  they  #KILLED  your  family,    because  how  else  can  you  show  your  level  of  commitment  for  your  audition? plus,    bellamy-delacroix  has  also  hinted  that  a  friend  of  his  from  #BROADWAY  whose  production  just  closed  its  doors  last  june  is  visiting  to  conduct  auditions  with  him!    suddenly,    everyone  with  even  a  mildly  functional  mixed  voice  is  developing  dreams  of  broadway  to  be  in  the  proximity  of  a  star.  ⭐

and  unfortunately,    new  directions  is  infested  with  theatre  kids  who  might  be  forced  to  choose  between  which  extracurricular  they  have  to  focus  on.   

and  speaking  of  new  directions,    our  resident  cool  music  production  professor,    bobby  kelmeckis,    is  finally  getting  into  the  swing  of  leadership  and  has  finally  noticed  that  his  club  currently  has  thirteen  unresolved  interpersonal  conflicts,    five  or  six  situationships,    four  people  who  simply  refuse  to  speak  during  rehearsals,    and  at  least  one  meathead  jock  whose  emotional  vocabulary  begins  and  ends  at    "    i'm  locked  in.    "   

so  this  week's  assignment?    ballads!    and  not  just  any  ballads,    it  has  to  be  a  song  that  actually  mean  something  to  them.    a  song  that  reveals  something  about  them  when  simple  words  don't  feel  enough.    after  all,    glee  club  is  a  #SAFESPACE.

well,    as  safe  as  it  could  be  when  coach  steele  has  pulled  cecelia,  goldie,  and  sullivan  to  remind  them  to  strike  when  the  iron  is  hot.    and  it  cannot  get  any  hotter  than  when  a  bunch  of  young  adults  are  forced  to  be  vulnerable  with  each  other.    she  doesn't  care  if  cecelia  has  to  use  her  feminine  wiles  to  seduce  people  in  the  club  and  break  their  hearts  or  turn  people  against  each  other,    or  if  sully  has  to  spread  some  virus,    she  wants  #RESULTS!    and  to  make  sure  they  don't  fuck  around  and  don't  start  actually enjoying  glee  club,    coach  steele  also  reminds  them  that  goldie  is  there  on  an  athletic  scholarship,    and  she  has  already  reserved  a  spot  for  her  in  the  saint  rivera's  hyper-aggressive  contact sport that is the roller  derby  team  once  she  kicks  her  off  the  cheerios  if  they  don't  #GETTOWORK! i  guess  shit's  about  to  go  down.    will  new  directions  lose  any  of  their  powerhouse  vocalists  to  wicked?    and  will  sectionals  just  be  another  tragic  humiliation  ritual?    and  most  importantly,    how  many  students  are  about  to  discover  they  cannot,    in  fact,    sing  defying  gravity?

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panic! panic! panic! and we aren't even at the disco. because every conversation ended up critiquing the downfalls of dictatorships, or led to misunderstanding until tensions exploded and sullivan vane quit new directions. professor  bobby  kelmeckis  chased  after  him,  hoping  to  salvage  the  situation,  but  the  conversation  only  deteriorated  further and even  the  famously  patient  professor  finally  snapped  and  called  sullivan  insufferable! and to make matters worse for himself, sully left the cheerios group chat without telling coach shauna steele, so i guess he's in hot water there, too! whatever he's going through, someone should probably check in on him.

but thankfully,  not  everything  was  falling  apart.  after  what  felt  like  several  decades  of  debates,  votes,  julian devereux letting everyone know he's going through character development, and  musical  arguments,  new  directions  finally  settled  on  their  sectionals  theme!  stella nasr's  pitch  won  by  popular  vote:  iconic  songs  from  eighties  films.  their  official  setlist  is  everybody  wants  to  rule  the  world,  danger  zone mashed  with  footloose,  purple  rain,  an interlude  of  please,  please,  please,  let  me  get  what  i  want,  and  finally,  in  your  eyes.  and maybe for  the  first  time  in  weeks,  new directions might finally start  looking  like  a  team  instead  of  thirty  different  personalities  fighting  over  whose turn it was with the  bluetooth  speaker.

now  all  they  need  is  money, because dreaming might be free, but a bus to pittsburgh is not! marijoy bacalso-coughlan and glee club's treasurer milo callahan are in charge of finding costumes for sectionals with what little budget they have left, and so the club split into four fun fundraising activities for the bus: a bake sale, a car wash, a date auction, and... because somebody genuinely believed this was a respectable idea... a sexy calendar. well, i'd definitely pay for a sexy shirtless photo of carter dressed as santa claus. and if  all  goes  according  to  plan,  maybe they'll  raise  enough  for  sectionals.  maybe  regionals.  and maybe  even  plane tickets for nationals!  okay,  maybe we should  calm  down.  they  still  have  to  survive  sectionals  first.

but  come  on,  this  is  campusloser!  of  course,  coach  shauna  steele  isn't  about  to  let  that  happen  peacefully.  finding  out  that  clementine  brandt's  mother  happens  to  be  #JUDGING  the  show  choir  sectionals  this  year,  wouldn't  it  just  be  a  shame  if  new  directions  happened  to  receive  terrible  scores  from  her?  so  coach  steele  tells  her  exactly  what  to  do,  and  if  she  doesn't?  well...  clementine  can  start  saying  goodbye  to  her  cheerios  uniform.  i  guess  she'll  have  to  lie  to  her  friends  in  glee!  god,  i  love  a  potential  villain.

and  speaking  of  lies,  savannah  grady  has  been  apparently  trying  to  convince  the  entire  student  body  she  has  to  go  back  home  to  care  for  her  injured  grandmother.  wow,  what  a  touching  story!  only  one  tiny  problem:  she's  actually  just  hiding  the  fact  that  she  has  a  child,  and  secrets  have  a  funny  habit  of  becoming  public  around  saint  rivera. coach steele might actually just kill her not only for missing practice but also lying to her!

but  that's  not  the  only  reason  coach  steele's  week  is  only  about  to  become  worse.  cheerios  media  day  is  approaching,  meaning  magazines,  television  crews,  journalists,  photographers,  and  every  imaginable  #PUBLICITY  are  descending  upon  her  and  the  cheerios  in  anticipation  of  their  sixth  consecutive  nationals  win.  and  naturally,  every  cheerio  is  suddenly  auditioning  to  become  her  favorite  and  be  featured  with  her  in  these  interviews!  how  exciting  for  them... 

but  that's  before  she  discovered  professor  thibault  bellamy-delacroix's  little  betrayal.  remember  that  deal  involving  a  portion  of  her  precious  glitter  and  confetti  budget  to  keep  glee  clubbers  too  busy  with  wicked?  well,  you  see,  funny  story.  somehow,  it  ended  up  being  some  of  her  own  cheerios  filling  some of the  main roles  now that micah de leon and clementine brandt are officialy cast as fiyero and glinda when  she  needs  them  the  most.  bellamy-delacroix...  you  better  start  running.

but  that's  not  the  only  explosive  thing  happening  on  campus.  let's  check  in  on  the  preparations  for  the  new  directions  bake  sale.  and  to  do  that,  we'll  need  to  go  abrams  house,  emery  wren's  headquarters  for  baking.  it's  one  of  the  oldest  buildings  on  campus,  a  relic  from  the  eighties  that  refused  to  be  demolished,  but  maybe  this  was  a  better  way  to  go.  and  after  hours  of  nonstop  baking  for  the  fundraising,  one  overworked  ancient  oven  finally  decided  it  had  contributed  enough  to  society and so...  it  exploded!  thankfully,  nobody  was  standing  nearby  or  they  would  have  been  obliterated,  but  the  resulting  fire  forced  everyone  to  evacuate  as  flames  swallowed  one  of  campus'  oldest  residences! #GOODBYEABRAMSHOUSE

their  belongings  might  be  gone,  but  at  least  the  campus  immediately  placed  them  in  new  dorms  at  a  very  discounted  price  and  even  gave  them  a  couple  thousand  dollars  each  to  replace  their  burned  properties  (  and  so  they  wouldn't  sue  the  school!  )  ...  and  hey,  most  of  the  people  we  care  about  in  that  dorm  are  in  glee  club  so  at  least  they  still  have  sectionals  to  look  forward  to! 

and  well,  i  guess  we'll  also  find  out  if  sully  still  has  a  place  in  new  directions  and  the  cheerios,  and  if  clementine  will  pull  through  with  coach  steele's  ultimatum.  such  drama!

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