Glee's Broadway Roots

Idina Menzel as Shelby Corcoran, Glee
Theater aficionados have long noted the uncanny physical resemblance between Broadway stars Idina Menzel and Lea Michele. Since Glee began, fans have clamored for a guest appearance by Menzel to play the mother of Rachel Berry. The popular outcry for Menzel was not lost on the producers, who wrote her in as Shelby Corcoran, the director of Vocal Adrenaline. Menzel guest-stars in all nine spring 2010 episodes.

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