A/N:
Yet again, thank you so much for the reviews and follows.
This chapter is delving in a lot of one of the major plots of the Funny Girl show and we see more of Rachel auditioning and we also meet her co star who is going to play into a major plot line.
In regards to the little plot line of making Jesse gay - when I saw him starting to wear those scarves in season 3, it was just a little too all a sudden on the other side for me and even though he and Lea have a great chemistry together away from stage (even though Jon is gay), Jesse to me just came off a little batting for the other side maybe, vibe.
This chapter is a day early only because I have it sitting on my computer and I have nothing else to do, besides type stories and make more stuff on the rainbow loom. But I am waiting on some more storage boxes to come from eBay so I can sort of the bands that came mixed.
So therefore I will give you a chapter instead!
And maybe start the other one - which I haven't even done any of yet; but I do know what the plot line is for it, so it won't take me long once I get on a roll with it!
Quick note about a format in this chapter - there is some messaging on Facebook messenger. And this is therefore in italics.
So enough from me, enjoy and you all know what to do from here!
love, KJ xoxo
Chapter 11 –
The next weekend, they were all at Mikki and Rachel's apartment on the Saturday afternoon and had just finished watching Funny Girl, whilst Jayden was down for a sleep in Rachel's room, where she had a small bassinet for him.
"I always get so confused with the musicals on stage and then the film adaptations" said Sam, as Puck stopped the DVD.
"Well they do take a lot of liberties when it comes to film" said Mikki.
"Right the set changes for example are a lot more extreme on film" said Rachel.
"And a lot of the time they will also take some of the songs from the stage show out and add in another song that has been written specifically for the movie version" said Mikki.
"Yeah, the original version of Funny Girl on stage, is so different to the movie. A lot of the songs that people know were actually written for the movie" said Rachel.
"And of course they tend to go into more detail on film as well" said Mikki.
"How is that you know this?" asked Blaine, looking at Mikki.
Mikki looked at him.
"I mean we kind of expect this from Rachel, since she is a certified Broadway nut. But you" said Blaine.
"Closet musical fan. I think musicals are universal and I love them" replied Mikki.
"Would never have guessed that about you" said Blaine.
"Guessed what?" asked Mikki.
"Just that we have a lot more in common then I would have thought" said Blaine.
"Yeah, well whatever that is, just don't go asking Mik for a run down on Grease and its history and all that. Because that will be a lecture and a half" said Puck.
"I'm sorry, but all the productions that are of now are wrong. There are songs that were cut out that mean something, and songs that they add were written for the movie, that aren't as good as the songs written for the show in the first place. So forgive for being a purist when it comes to Grease" said Mikki.
"Wait that was a stage show to begin with" said Sam.
"Yeah it was" replied Rachel.
"So what about Thunder Road" said Sam.
Mikki laughed. "It didn't exist. Sure they did 'Greased Lightin' and mind you it was Kenickie who sung the whole thing and not Danny, but the whole Thunder Road thing didn't exist until the movie version" said Mikki.
"But that's the best part" said Sam.
Mikki glared at him.
"I wouldn't be going there Sam. Not if you don't want an irate and nonsensical yelling Grease obcessed Mikki on your back" said Puck.
"I am not irate and nonsensical" said Mikki.
"Really, you didn't completely flip out your junior year when we did Grease for the musical and demand that it be done a certain way" said Puck.
"Hmm, you did to that. I forgot that" said Rachel, with a laugh.
"Okay maybe I did, but I wasn't just going to sit by and see them put on that stupid school's version, when it was so clearly wrong" said Mikki.
"Yeah, like I said crazy" replied Puck.
Mikki glared at her cousin.
"So were all of you in it then?" asked Brittany.
"Yeah, I played Kenickie" said Puck.
"Marty" replied Rachel.
They looked at Mikki.
"Let me guess the raving lunatic wasn't allowed in it" said Blaine, with a laugh.
Mikki glared at him. "No, the raving lunatic was Sandy" she replied.
"You had the lead" said Sam.
"Yeah I did" replied Mikki.
"And I'm still sure they only did that to shut her the hell up from the ranting and carrying on. Not that it mattered because, Mik still demanded it be done the original way" said Puck.
"And we got amazing local reviews for it, so just shut up huh" said Mikki, looking at him.
"Do you have it on DVD by any chance, cause I'd love to see it" said Blaine.
"Umm yeah it's one of the ones that my mom sent a few months ago" replied Mikki.
"Can we watch it one night?" asked Blaine.
"Yeah, I guess, why not" replied Mikki, with a nod.
"Cool" said Blaine, as Rachel's cell phone started to ring.
She looked at it and saw that it was her agent calling. "Oh god it's my agent" she said, looking at the others.
"Well answer it sweetie" said Puck.
Rachel nodded and took a deep breath answering the phone.
"Hello this is Rachel" she said.
She listened for a moment to the person on the other end, nodding her head as they spoke.
"Sure I can be there" she said.
The person on the other end said something.
"Great, I will see them then. Bye" replied Rachel, and ended the call.
"Did you get a call back?" asked Mikki, looking at her friend.
"Yeah, I can't believe this, it's a dream come true" said Rachel.
"We've all got our fingers crossed for you Rach" said Sam.
"Fingers, toes, wishing on the stars for you" said Brittany, and Puck stood up and pulled Rachel up also, picking her up and spinning her as much as he could in the small space they were in and kissing her.
"Noah" said Rachel, with a laugh.
"What?" he asked, kissing her again.
"I haven't got the part yet" replied Rachel.
Puck scoffed. "If you don't get it, they don't a stand of chance lasting long then. Because you are perfect" he said, kissing her.
"So what do you have to do for this audition?" asked Mikki.
"Umm well they want me to do a reading and also sing one of the actual songs from Funny Girl" said Rachel.
"And they are?" asked Brittany.
"Well Funny Girl of course" replied Rachel, with a laugh, sitting back down and pulled Puck back down with her.
Puck wrapped his arms around her, pulling Rachel into himself.
"You know what would be a good song, and it would definitely show your skills off, "Greatest Star" said Blaine.
Rachel looked at him. "Yeah that would be good, it has a good range".
"When's your call back?" asked Blaine.
"Umm Wednesday" replied Rachel.
"Well if you want I can help you out with some music practice" said Blaine.
"That would be awesome, thank you" replied Rachel.
"Yeah that's kind of you to offer Blaine" said Puck.
"Well, we all want to see Rachel get this and I'm sure we'd all help if we could" said Blaine.
"Hmm, well Britts and I can help with wardrobe" said Mikki.
"Right, we can make you as Fanny looking at possible" said Brittany with a nod.
"And I have no idea what I could do, because I'm not the musical type of person" said Sam.
"Well maybe you can help with comedic stuff" said Rachel, looking at him.
"Yeah, I can do that. I'm awesome at impressions" said Sam, with a smile.
Rachel nodded and laughed.
"That only leaves Puck doing nothing, as usual" said Blaine, with a laugh.
"I'll be offering things none of you can give Rach" said Puck, with a smile and quickly kissed Rachel who blushed.
"Noah" she said, hitting him.
"What I'm keeping you from stressing out" said Puck with a laugh.
"Yeah, just remember my room is right next door to Rachel's and I can hear things" said Mikki.
The others laughed and then sat around discussing all the ways that they were able to help Rachel out some more.
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The next night, the six of them were sitting in Mikki and Rachel's apartment, once again; watching the musical performance of Grease that McKinley had done the year Mikki and Rachel were juniors and Puck was a senior.
The reprise of 'We Go Together' finished on the production.
"Well I got to say that the songs in that were actually quite good, I actually liked the song that was in where 'You're The One That I Want' was supposed to be" said Sam.
"'All Choked Up'" replied Mikki.
"Yeah, it was kind of a funny song" said Brittany with a laugh.
"It looked liked you all had fun doing it" said Blaine.
"Yeah we did" replied Puck, from where he was sitting next to Rachel with his arm around her shoulder, as the music for the bows started for the cast and they took them.
"I think the funny part was the wig that they got you to wear" said Rachel, looking at Puck with a laugh.
"Why did you have to wear a wig?" asked Brittany, as Puck looked at Rachel.
"Because he had that ridiculous mohawk of his senior year, and it wasn't exactly a 50's style" replied Mikki, laughing.
"This coming from the girl who actually dyed her hair blonde that year" replied Puck.
"Yes, so I didn't have to wear a wig on stage" replied Mikki.
"That was your actual hair color then?" asked Blaine, looking at her.
Mikki nodded. "Yep and it was all my own hair on stage, except at the very end here, where it was a clip on part in the almost the same color, but you can't really tell that because of the lighting, for the end transformation" said Mikki, pointing to the television screen.
"Wow, never would have pictured you actually committing to a blonde hair color" said Sam.
"Yeah, well I hated it and dyed my hair back to brown over the summer and vowed never to go blonde again" said Mikki.
"Oh I don't know it kind of matched your personality" said Puck, with a laugh and Mikki glared at him, as the music on the DVD changed again to this time with singing as the cast of the production launched into a megamix with the songs that were more known from the movie version of Grease.
"Ohh this part was fun at the end, we got to goof on with it" said Puck, glancing at the television.
"Yeah it was" replied Mikki, with a laugh as they all looked at the screen.
"I still can't believe that they let you sing those songs unedited" said Blaine, as Greased Lighting was sung on stage.
"Mikki's doing" said Rachel, with a laugh.
"Yes, well I'm sorry Grease Lighting in not a dragon wagon, it's a shaggin' wagon" said Mikki.
"The woman has a point, you get lots of tit in that car" said Blaine, with a laugh.
Mikki laughed, nodding as well.
"Well I don't know about you guys, but I should be getting home" said Brittany.
"Okay, you right to get home on your own?" asked Puck, looking at the blonde hair girl.
Brittany nodded. "Yeah it's like a five minute walk, I'll be fine".
"Let us know when you home" said Rachel.
"I will" replied Brittany, standing and grabbing her bag from the floor.
"See you tomorrow guys" said Brittany, and left the apartment, with a chorus of "byes" following her.
"We probably should get going as well" said Sam.
"Yeah, sure Puck and Rach wanting to be getting to bed" said Blaine, with a laugh.
"Thank god I have music that will drown any noises out on my iPod" replied Mikki, with a laugh also.
"Maybe you should make them go over to Puck's apartment" said Sam.
"Yes, that's a good idea. Go there and you can be as loud as the two of you want" said Mikki.
"Fine then, we will" replied Puck, with a smile.
"Noah" said Rachel, blushing.
"Well I'm sorry, well actually no I'm not. Because I like it when I can make you scream my name" said Puck.
"Oh god, too much info" said Blaine, standing up.
"Yeah, but I actually have heard that, and it's not pleasant to know that my cousin is screwing my best friend in the bedroom next door" said Mikki, with a laugh.
"Yeah, so we're just going to go then" said Rachel, blushing and standing up.
"You coming over" said Puck.
Rachel nodded. "I'll just go grab some stuff" she replied.
"I don't think you're going to be needing clothes Rach" said Sam, with a laugh.
Puck glared at him.
"Okay, well this is good. I might actually get a decent nights sleep, since I don't have to have my music up to extremely loud decibels half the night to block out other noises" said Mikki.
"Yeah" replied Blaine with a laugh as well, as Rachel came back out of her room, with a small overnight bag.
"Okay" she said, looking at Puck.
"See you tomorrow cous" said Puck.
"Yeah later Mik" said Sam.
"Have a nice sleep Mikki" said Blaine with a laugh.
"Hmm I shall" replied Mikki, with a laugh.
"I'll see you tomorrow night Mik" said Rachel.
"Yeah uh huh, bye guys" replied Mikki and her four friends left the apartment, leaving Mikki to have a peaceful night sleep to herself.
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Wednesday, Rachel had her second audition for Funny Girl. She walked up to the offices and knocked on the door, where the auditions had been previously since this time there was no one there to mark off people.
"It's open, come on in" said a male voice from inside.
Rachel opened the door and walked inside to see the three males and one female that had been present at her original audition along with the pianist. However this time there was also another male sitting at the table.
"Hello Rachel" said one of the guys from the original audition.
"Hello" she replied.
"Glad you could come back in today" said the female.
"Oh it's no trouble at all" replied Rachel.
One of the guys on the table nodded. "Well you're aware that we are asking you to do a reading this time, so this is Will Schuester, and he is who we have playing Nick Arstein" said one of the males.
Will stood up and went over to Rachel and held out his hand.
"It's a pleasure to meet you Rachel" said Will.
"Yes you also" replied Rachel, with a nod.
"Will if you're not aware has been in a few Broadway musicals. He was the original Link Larkin in Hairspray when that opened and also received a Tony award nomination for his role in The Light in the Piazza" said the female.
"Umm, I'm familiar with the musicals but I wasn't aware of that" said Rachel.
"Well you are in very good hands here, I promise you" said Will, with a smile to her.
Rachel looked at him and nodded.
"So Rachel, did you want to go through the song that you're choosing for this audition and then we can get you and Will to go through the scene together" said one of the males.
"Okay, well I chose to do the "Greatest Star" today, I thought it would show that I can also act when I sing as well" said Rachel.
"Very good, and you're well prepared I'm sure of that" said one the males.
"Yes I am" replied Rachel.
"Well when you're ready" said the other female in the room.
Rachel nodded and Will went back over to his seat.
"Ready" replied Rachel and took a deep breath as the pianist started to play the song and she started her second audition for Funny Girl.
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A short while later, Rachel had gone through a reading also for the show with Will.
"Okay Rachel that was good" said one of the guys in the room.
"If you don't mind stepping out of the room for a little bit, so we can talk" said one of the guys in the room.
"Sure okay" replied Rachel, with a smile, gathering up her bag and exiting the room.
She went over and sat on one of the chairs and got out her phone and unlocked it, then opened up the group message on Facebook with the others.
Just finished my script reading and they have asked me to wait for a moment outside. I get the feeling that they are talking about me.
Rachel looked at the phone and saw that Sam was obviously either on line or on messenger and that he was typing a reply.
Sure they are saying nothing but wonderful stuff about you Good luck. Let us know what they say
Rachel smiled and started to type back.
Thank you Sam. You're so sweet and I got a lot of laughs for the comedy side that I put into the song, so thank you!
Rachel sent through the message just as a message from Blaine also came through.
Rach, you're indeed the "Greatest Star" and if they don't know that then they don't know what they are missing out on! Lots of luck xx
Rachel smiled at her friends kind words as the door opened to the audition room.
"Rachel, if you'd like to come back inside" said the female that was present at the auditions.
"Yeah" replied Rachel, and stood up and walked into the room to learn what maybe her fate hopefully was.
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Rachel went running to the coffee shop from her audition. She had sent the others a message on Facebook and also via text message; telling them all that it was indeed imperative that they meet her at the coffee shop.
She went running up the street the coffee shop was in as fast as she could in her heels and ran over to the coffee shop, and opened the door.
She saw that all her friends were all there over at their usual spot and she smiled.
"I got the part" screamed Rachel, holding the bottle of champagne that she had purchased on the way up in the air.
Everyone in the coffee shop turned and looked at her and her friends, all jumped up from where they were sitting.
"You got it" said Puck, looking at his girlfriend.
Rachel nodded. "I got it" she replied.
Puck picked her up and hugged her.
"Rach that's fantastic" said Mikki, as the others hugged her as well.
"I know, I can't believe it" she replied as Blaine took the bottle of champagne from her.
"Hey Kurt, can you bring us over six glasses we need to celebrate here" said Blaine, looking over to him.
"This is a coffee shop Blaine, not a bar" replied Kurt.
"Well coffee cups then, whatever you got" said Blaine, as he started to open the bottle of champagne.
Puck lead Rachel over to the sofa and the others followed, all of them sitting down and Kurt bought over a tray of glass coffee mugs.
"Closest thing I have to actual glasses" said Kurt, placing the tray on the table.
"So you got to tell us everything" said Brittany.
"Well I did the song and then a reading also with the guy that they have playing Nick. They then asked me to go outside whilst they talked, which is when I was messaging you guys and then they asked me back in, told me that they had seen more than enough from me, and I thought that meant I wasn't even in with a chance, but then they offered me the role and said I was just who they were looking for" said Rachel.
"Well that have made the right choice" said Sam.
"Damn right they have" said Puck, kissing Rachel.
Rachel laughed and quickly kissed him back.
"And I get to tell everyone now that my girlfriend is a Broadway star" said Puck.
"We get to tell everyone our friend is a Broadway star" said Blaine as he struggled with getting the cork out of the champagne.
"Give that here" said Mikki, taking the bottle from him.
"Well I hate them" said Blaine.
Mikki shook her head and managed to pop the cork.
"You loosened it for her, man" said Sam, with a laugh.
Mikki looked at him and laughed and poured the champagne into the six coffee glasses and they each took one.
"Here's to Rachel, future Broadway star" said Puck with a smile at her and kissed her on the cheek.
The all clinked their glasses together. "To Rachel" they all said and with that they listened to Rachel some more as she told them all about what she had done at the audition and also how the production of Funny Girl was going to play out on stage.
End Note:
Hope you enjoyed the chapter the part with what Will has been in previously is a play on real life and actually of course Matt Morrison;
- and the whole part with Mikki being an obsessed 'Grease' nut, comes from me.
It was probably the first musical I fell completely in love with - although my love of music (and unknowingly musical theatre, already ran deep - my dad when I was young always played the Evita LP and I was also in love with a show called Young Talent Time in Australia, that ended in 1988 (I refuse to acknowledge the revamped 2012 version as anything but absolutely pathetic television), and they both gave me a love of music and musical theatre, since they would cover a broad spectrum of music).
However it was upon researching many years after being able to recite the whole entire Grease movie(script and songs), word for word (I should add I can also recite Grease 2 word and song as well), that I found the original Broadway musical version - and that a lot of the songs made so much more sense in that context on stage.
I have since seen many versions of stage - and only one has been true to the original B'way version. (I don't mind them changing some musicals, such as doing Funny Girl the film way on Glee and maybe when it does open again on stage - it's just I get annoyed when they do it for some, because it takes away the original idea of the musical)
I saw an amateur production of Grease in Hobart, Tasmania (Australia)- it did all the original songs - and I can remember at intermission, the friends who I were with, commenting that this isn't correct. My reply to them was simple "no it's correct. It's the ORIGINAL B'way version - and they aren't using any of the movie songs in the production". There reply was "Well this just sucks".
Cue my eyes rolling and thinking, 'I am surrounded by idiots'. (And this was true, since they also thought the movie Evita sucked - and granted Madonna wasn't wonderful. But the story and music is...so I take what those 'friends' say with a grain of salt...because they are completley clueless!)
So long end note short - I am a complete musical theatre (and film musical) nut... my iTunes thus proves this. Just type in musical or Broadway and well it's rather sad.
However I feel as if musicals speak to me - and they are a part of what makes me, me.
And also probably the biggest reason why I watched Glee in the first place.
And I can tell you right now, I am definitely hanging out for the "Jersey Boys" movie to be released - having seen the trailer for the movie and also having seen the actual live show here in Australia, I cannot wait to see the movie in full.
Anyway, enough rambles from me.
Thanks once again for reading...and don't ever be ashamed of being who you are.
I have tried to be someone I am not - and well it sucks.
I love my musicals, I love my theatre and I love my writing and also Furbies (and trying to get Sami out of her lovey mode - she keeps telling Darren he is squishy like a marshmallow and go good with chocolate, among many other extremely innapproriate things!) - and well if people can't handle that about me, well it's their loss!
Be back soon,with a new chapter!
KJ xoxoxo