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OU students strive to make it onto the small screen

by Audrey Harris | April 22, 2010 | 5 comments

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Not many people crave a slushie thrown in their face. But for three OU students, it would be a small price to pay for a coveted opportunity.

Corrie Hermans, Heather Hall and Andrew Farha are a small sampling of numerous OU students who have auditioned for Fox’s hit show “Glee” through an online contest, and the numbers are growing daily.

The contest allows anyone over the age of 16 to submit a song performance and personal statement to MySpace to be considered by “Glee”’s executive producers as a character on the show’s next season. Viewers rate the videos by giving gold stars, and there’s no limit to the number of stars a person can give or receive. Each song must be chosen from a required list provided in the contest rules.

A show about a high school glee club, “Glee” is a show in which club members sing covers of songs ranging from the Rolling Stones to Rihanna. The “popular” kids at school often throw slushies on the “uncool” members of the glee club.

Corrie Hermans, University College freshman, said she started singing at birth. She has participated in musical theatre in middle and high school and is now training in classical theatre.

“I’m being trained to be an opera singer someday”, Hermans said.

Hermans created a Facebook group so everyone she knows could help her get votes. If Hermans got picked to be on “Glee,” she said she would accept in a heartbeat and see where the role takes her. Her parents would support her even if it meant leaving OU.

“Without a second thought I’d go do this, and depending on where the show leads me I would return to school or continue my career,” Hermans said. “My career isn’t structured into getting an education, but more so being in the right place at the right time.”

Heather Hall, communications junior, has experience in auditioning for Glee. Hall entered a contest at the local Fox station in her hometown of Houston. The station promised to send one applicant’s audition tape to the executives at “Glee.” They narrowed more than 100 applicants down to four finalists, and Hall was one of them.

Hall wasn’t the final pick, so she’s choosing to audition for “Glee” through the MySpace contest. Hall sang Barbara Streisand’s “Don’t Rain On My Parade.”

“I think it’s a fun song and it’s the best one on the list to show range,” Hall said.

Andrew Farha, OU alumnus, was in choir from first grade through his freshman year of college, and even had his own quartet in high school. He knows how to play the piano and the bass.

“I’ve watched the show since the beginning, Farha said. “I can’t imagine a better starting point [for a singing career].”

Hermans said she would do any type of singing for anyone who would hire her. And if being on the show meant she’d get slushies thrown in her face, Hermans said she “wouldn’t even feel it” because she’d be too excited to be there.

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