Gleeful: The Real Show Choirs of America

Series 1 Episode 1
First Broadcast: Mon 7 June 2010

Documentary exploring the big business of show choirs in American high schools.

Interviewees include Donna Lynn Champlin, current star of Billy Elliot on Broadway, who says she owes her own career to her many years in a school choir and Judith Ranaletta who has devoted over 26 years to helping her award-winning school to become one of the most feared choirs around.

    1. Young woman in a formal black dress singes onstage Series 1 Episode 1 Gleeful: The Real Show Choirs Of America

      Documentary exploring the big business of show choirs in American high schools. </br> </br>Interviewees include Donna Lynn…

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