Hundreds Try Out For "Glee" Spinoff

By Anna Deem in News on Dec 19, 2010 6:45PM

Capitalizing on one of the most current popular TV shows, the Oxygen network came up with an idea for "The Glee Project," a reality TV show spinoff that will air next summer. The show is a competition to win a guest starring spot on multiple episodes of "Glee."

"It means a lot to me because I've been singing and dancing since I was 4," Romarius Beard, 19, a college sophomore from Avalon Park, said to the Chicago Sun-Times, "And I love Glee." Beard--who got up at 3 a.m. for the 9 a.m. casting call at the Chicago Academy for the Arts--was among the 2,000 people that showed up on Saturday to try for a dozen open spots on the TV show spinoff.

Casting director Robert Ulrich told the Sun-Times that he's looking for "someone who's accessible and someone audiences will fall in love with." A second casting call with be held in January in Dallas, after which the competition will continue through April.