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STAGE TUBE: Lea Michele Talks Broadway Dream Roles!

By: Aug. 03, 2011
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Broadway veteran and GLEE star Lea Michele recetly chatted with Harper's Bazaar about everything from post-GLEE plans to adapting to her looks.  Michele revealed, "People have to tell me to slow down. I plan on playing every role on Broadway. I want to do Evita. I want to do Sweeney Todd with [Glee costar] Chris Colfer. We want to do Wicked. I'll be Elphaba and he wants to play ‘Guy-linda.' I want to do movies, make music. Glee is only the beginning."

She continued: "I'm five foot three. I don't look like a lot of other people, you know what I mean? I look like I'm 12. How many managers told me, ‘Get a nose job. You're not pretty enough'? But I proved them wrong."

Go behind Michele's photo shoot in the video! To read the full interview, click here.

At just 8 years old, Lea Michele made her Broadway debut as "Young Cosette" in "Les Misérables." Since then, she has shared the stage with Broadway greats Audra McDonald and Brian Stokes Mitchell in "Ragtime" as well as with Alfred Molina in "Fiddler on the Roof."

Best known for her role as "Wendla" in the Tony Award-winning Broadway production of "Spring Awakening," Michele was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical for her performance.

For her work on GLEE, Michele was honored this year with a Golden Globe nomination for Best Television Actress - Comedy or Musical and an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. Michele was also recently nominated for a 2010 Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Actress: Comedy. In 2009, she was nominated in the Choice TV: Breakout Star Female category.

 

 




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