Glee Live! In Concert!
| world tour by Glee Cast | |
Promotional poster for tour
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| Associated album |
Glee: The Music, Volume 1 Glee: The Music, Volume 2 Glee: The Music, The Power of Madonna Glee: The Music, Volume 3 Showstoppers Glee: The Music, Journey to Regionals Glee: The Music, Volume 4 Glee: The Music, Volume 5 Glee: The Music Presents the Warblers Glee: The Music, Volume 6 |
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| Start date | May 10, 2010 |
| End date | July 3, 2011 |
| Legs | 3 |
| No. of shows | 31 in North America 13 in Europe 44 total |
| Website | www |
Glee Live! In Concert! is a concert tour performed in character by members of the cast of the popular television series, Glee. The tour, created by series creator Ryan Murphy was designed due to the overwhelming response to the series. The show reached North America, the United Kingdom and Ireland. Murphy states the series' soundtrack and concerts were an additional revenue stream for the series. The tour received great responses from both music critics and fans of the series. The first North American leg of the tour in 2010 was seen by over 70,000 spectators, generating over five million dollars in ticket sales and ranking ninth on the Billboard Hot Tours list. The 2011 tour was seen by an audience of over 485,000 and placed sixteenth on Billboard's annual Top 25 Tours list, earning over $40 million from 40 shows.
Initially, the cast of the series performed a small promotional tour ("The Gleek Tour") at various Hot Topic stores in the U.S. to showcase the series' soundtrack and to meet with fans of the show. This was followed with a performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Citizens Bank Park for the 2009 World Series. A concert tour was hinted by several cast members via Twitter at the beginning of 2010. The success of the promotional outing lead to the creation of the concert tour. The tour was officially announced via Fox on March 1, 2010 at the conclusion of the first season.Lea Michele (Rachel Berry) expressed her excitement for the tour stating, "This has been such an extraordinary year for 'Glee' and I can’t think of a better way to finish up the first season than performing live on stage with the cast". Her comments were later shared by Cory Monteith (Finn Hudson) stating, "This show has changed my life in so many ways. If you had told me a year ago that I’d be performing classic rock songs in concert theaters around the country, I would never have believed you. We are psyched!". The tour performed over a dozen sell-out shows in the United States.
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