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It’s unequivocally no warn that Lea Michele is one of a large dermatitis stars of Glee.

By a time a uncover rolled around, she’d already been a pound on Broadway.

In fact…

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John Gallagher, Jr., who won a Tony Award for his purpose conflicting Michele in a strike 2006 low-pitched Spring Awakening, says he knew as shortly as he met her she was going to be big.

“I consider she was only innate a star,” he tells me. “She was about 17 or 18 when we initial met her during a initial seminar we did for Spring Awakening. She positively walked into that room and she was like, we know, Barbra Streisand. we said, ‘Oh, yes, positively it’s going to occur for this girl—and really quickly.’ I’m really happy for her.”

And we’re really happy that we’re going to be saying a lot some-more of a desirable and really large Gallagher, 28. He plays a comparison writer in The Newsroom, Aaron Sorkin‘s new HBO array about a argumentative wire news anchor played by a conspicuous Jeff Daniels.

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“I emailed my representative and we said, ‘I consider I’m taken for this, though during a really slightest can we examination a script,” pronounced Gallagher. “I examination it, fell for it and knew we had to try my best to get involved.”

And yes, we’ll hear Gallagher sing on a show. “Aaron found out that Jeff is also a singer/songwriter and he puts out his possess annals and afterwards he found out that we play guitar and sing,” Gallagher said. “So, one day, he said, ‘Oh, there’s going to be an part when we and Jeff are jamming.’ we suspicion he was kidding, though dual weeks after we found out that he wasn’t teasing and that he had worked it into a script.”

Cannot wait to see—and hear—the outcome!

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