July 28 - August 3, 2024
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BY JAY BOBBIN
Jonathan Groff OF GLEE ON FOX
Emma Myers stars in “A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder”
Q: It was nice to see Jonathan Groff win a Tony Award recently. Can you remind me of the character he played on “Glee”? A: He was in the Fox series from the start when it began in 2009, and he already was a Broadway veteran by that time, having gotten particular notice for “Spring Awakening” … which also brought him a Tony nomination, and which teamed him with Lea Michele, with whom he would work again in “Glee.” His character in that show, Jesse St. James, was a principal performer in the singing group Vocal Adrenaline — rivals of New Directions, the group that included Rachel Berry (played by Michele). Jesse was dispatched to woo the hugely talented Rachel, the aim being to throw her off her game when it came to competition between the groups. However, things changed when he truly fell for her, and when he learned the secret that the coach of Vocal Adrenaline (played by Idina Menzel) was Rachel’s biological mother. Though Groff had a reasonably sizable presence during the first season of “Glee,” he became a recurring player as the show went along, appearing only occasionally. His return in the series finale seems even more prophetic now where Groff is concerned, since Jesse and Rachel went to the Tony Awards as a married couple, with Jesse already being a Tony winner who was directing a Broadway production that Rachel was in.
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The British crime drama takes a young adult turn in new series, “A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder,” premiering Thursday, Aug. 1, on Netflix.
Just before “Glee” ended, Groff returned to the New York stage by playing King George III in “Hamilton: An American Musical,” and he followed that Off-Broadway job with two stints in the role during the show’s Broadway run. He earned another Tony nomination for his performance, and he finally got the award last month for a revival of the Stephen Sondheim-composed “Merrily We Roll Along.”