Greetings!
Writing my own version of a "Season 7" has been in my head since the final season in 2015. I'd started several different drafts throughout the first couple years, but never finished them. Recently, Glee celebrated its tenth anniversary since Season 1 aired, and that was when the fire ignited for me to get back into this. When Glee finished, I was a sophomore in college. Ever since getting into the show in 2010, Glee helped me to come out of my shell and discover my voice and truly got me into the performing arts. I even changed my major. Since then I have done a variety of musicals including Godspell, Miss Saigon, Legally Blonde, The Addams Family, Spamalot, Evita, and Rent, along with several choir concerts, dance shows, one-act festivals, plays, children's theatre, and a senior project vocal showcase. Following the Season 6 finale of Glee, my life took so many different turns that, thankfully, I was able to draw strength and inspiration from Glee to continue to push through issues like my first real job, my parents' divorce, my first heartbreak, my performing arts senior showcase, my college graduation, and my first professional job.
This "Season 7" of Glee is a prologue to the Season 6 finale flashforwards that took place in 2020. It will be short, just nine chapters. I've chosen my two favorite characters from each graduating class whose stories I will recap based on what was left unresolved in Season 6, and also life experiences that I endured in my early adulthood. The Class of 2012 features Rachel and Kurt, the Class of 2013 features Blaine and Sam, and the Class of 2015 features Kitty and Jake. The New York narrative will also be supplemented by roles inspired by Glee Project finalists Lindsay Pearce (Harmony), Ali Stroker (Betty), and Aylin Bayramoglu (Ameera), as well as a new male character whose look and voice is inspired by Les Miserables revival actor Kyle Scatliffe.
In addition, I have a roster of 10 new students at McKinley High and two new teachers. The new students are inspired by a variety of young Broadway and pop performers that I've seen in the past year - The girls are Tony-nominated Eva Noblezada of Miss Saigon, Viveca Chow of Miss Saigon, Shannon Purser of Rise, Dinah Jane Hansen of Fifth Harmony, and Kaedi Dalley of Citizen Queen. The boys are Anthony Cipriano of the Jimmy Awards, Nikhil Saboo of Mean Girls, Joe Caigoy of The Filharmonic, Sky Lakota Lynch of Dear Evan Hansen, and Kodi Lee of America's Got Talent. While it is inevitable that these kids DO have similarities to the past generations of Glee kids, I've primarily based their character arcs on issues not yet, nor not fully, explored by the former Glee kids. The two new teachers are inspired by two Tony-winning Broadway adults whose work I absolutely adore: Lin Manuel Miranda of Hamiton, and Ruthie Ann Miles of The King and I.
Because I have a lot of content that I try to deliver in under 6000 words, I shortcut times and locales with script-style formatting, so please excuse that if it is something that throws you off.