#chris colfer birthday celebration

[shame-is-a-wasted-emotion]

Its May finally!!.

30 days of Chris Colfer celebration is so on!!

Day 1: In sunglasses

(He looks so cool in this. Also disneyland!!)

[d-criss-news]

How Sondheim and Burnett Got Darren Criss to Provincetown

Provincetown hasn’t been compared to The Godfather or Star Wars very often, but those are the examples actor and singer Darren Criss names in acknowledging that his July 21 town hall appearance will be his first visit here.

“Provincetown is like that movie that you haven’t seen but you don’t want your friends to know you haven’t seen, so you don’t incur their wrath and ridicule and disbelief,” he says, noting that several of his good pals visit often. “I don’t bring up that I haven’t been there because my friends will give me crap. I haven’t avoided it — I’ve really wanted to go. Finally, the stars aligned quite nicely.”

Maybe the stars had a little help from Carol Burnett.

Host and accompanist John McDaniel, a Grammy and Emmy award-winning musician, says he invited Criss to be part of his summer Broadway series here after Criss performed on 2023’s Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Love + Laughter TV birthday special. McDaniel was the music director.

Criss’s best-known roles are his breakout portrayal of Blaine for five seasons (2010 to 2015) on Glee in a milestone-for-mainstream-TV gay romance with Chris Colfer’s Kurt, and his 2018 Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning turn as spree killer Andrew Cunanan in The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. (Both roles came thanks to producer and Provincetown part-timer Ryan Murphy.)

In addition to acting and singing — including Glee’s “Teenage Dream” cover that climbed the Billboard charts — Criss is a songwriter. He first won notice for co-writing and starring in 2009’s A Very Potter Musical parody for the Chicago-based StarKid Productions, which he co-founded. Criss’s A Very Darren Crissmas generated national holiday tours.

Shortly after Criss wrote the opening number for the 2022 Tony Awards, his friend Paul Miller, director of the Burnett tribute, asked him to refashion Stephen Sondheim’s “Side by Side” from Company into an homage to Burnett’s famous duets with celebrity guest stars.

In what he called “one of the coolest things I’ve ever gotten to be a part of,” Criss performed “Burnett’s Duets” for the star-studded birthday-party special with Broadway’s Sutton Foster. That came after he meticulously dissected Sondheim’s music to fit new lyrics and fine-tuned the arrangement with McDaniel.

“When I was doing this,” Criss says, “in my mind, I was going, ‘What would the ghost of Sondheim be OK with?’ ”

More Broadway music will be on Criss’s mind in Provincetown for what he says will be an unusual program because it likely won’t include original work or him playing guitar or piano; McDaniel will accompany him. Criss prides himself on not performing the same live show twice and plans to include Broadway songs he’s not yet sung in public.

That said, he recognizes fans might want to hear something connected to his own Broadway star turns. Those include — besides the nonmusical American Buffalo in 2022 — How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying in 2012 and 2015’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Plus, earlier this year, Criss starred in off-Broadway’s Little Shop of Horrors.

In September, he’ll originate a Broadway role for the first time, headlining Will Aronson and Hue Park’s musical Maybe Happy Ending. Criss plays an outdated, retired robot in futuristic Seoul who explores the nature of love with another retired robot (Helen J. Shen). To try to help boost its U.S. profile, Criss is also a producer of the musical, which has been a hit in Korea, China, and Japan. Its Broadway debut will be directed by Michael Arden (2023 Tony Award for Parade, Spring Awakening), a longtime Criss friend who directed the English-language debut in 2020 in Atlanta.

Criss is excited but nervous about the piece; he says it’s intimate and epic at once. “There’s an excitement about the uniqueness and specialness of this show that I’ve never encountered before,” he says. “So that’s either going to crash and burn and blow up in our faces or catch on. I don’t know, but the prospect is very thrilling.”

Criss, who is straight, made headlines this spring for comments at a Chicago expo about being “culturally queer” because of his admiration for the LGBTQ community. “The things in my life that I have tried to emulate, learn from, and be inspired by are 100 percent queer,” he said then, later adding that “it was in queer communities that I’ve found people that I idolize, that I want to learn something from.”

“That had to be the slowest news day ever,” Criss says about his comments getting attention — especially because he’s talked many times before about similar things, including how much it meant to be part of Glee’s Blaine-Kurt relationship story.

Beyond Provincetown and Broadway, in August Criss’s voice will be heard in an unusual spot: on season 10 of Netflix’s Gabby’s Dollhouse, a children’s show, as the new Marty the Party Cat, magical host of the Party Room. It’s a voice role Criss says was planned long before his two-year-old daughter and seven-week-old son were born to him and his wife.

Marty is described by Netflix as a lovable, “exuberant goofball” who has a big heart and the ability to laugh at himself.

“He’s a fun guy,” Criss says. “I’m aspirationally Marty the Party Cat.”

[historyofglee]

On this day in 2010:

members of the cast of Glee celebrated Chris Colfer’s 20th birthday at the Greenhouse in Soho, New York City.

Joining Chris for the celebration were Kevin McHale, Jenna Ushkowitz, Amber Riley, Lea Michele, Harry Shum Jr., Heather Morris, Dijon Talton, Dianna Agron, and Naya Rivera (not pictured).

[guppygiggles]

Question about our favorite fish

Is Fin younger than the other two, or is he just more hyper/ bubbly?

Also how would you describe his voice?

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Hello! Thanks for asking about Finn! 💙

When I originally created him as Fishper, I planned for him to be essentially the same character as Casper, just a bit more innocent and carefree. As he took on a life of his own and I developed him to Finnegan, I felt like it did make sense for him to be a bit younger. He is 24! Casper is 30, and Avery is 36. While I might celebrate their birthdays, they will always be these ages (at least, that's my plan).

If you've ever watched Dragonball, his personality is very similar to adult Goku; pure of heart, dumb of ass, lmao. People tend to make characters like Finnegan into himbos, but Finn is actually aroace (he is not repulsed, he just doesn't have much interest in romance or sex. I'm going to go into this more in future fics.)

His voice is high pitched like Chris Colfer's, and he speaks with a lisp!

[sillyname30]

How Sondheim and Burnett Got Darren Criss to Provincetown

The songwriter and star of Glee makes his local debut in Broadway-centric concert

By Kathi Scrizzi Driscoll Jul 17, 2024

Provincetown hasn’t been compared to The Godfather or Star Wars very often, but those are the examples actor and singer Darren Criss names in acknowledging that his July 21 town hall appearance will be his first visit here.

“Provincetown is like that movie that you haven’t seen but you don’t want your friends to know you haven’t seen, so you don’t incur their wrath and ridicule and disbelief,” he says, noting that several of his good pals visit often. “I don’t bring up that I haven’t been there because my friends will give me crap. I haven’t avoided it — I’ve really wanted to go. Finally, the stars aligned quite nicely.”

Maybe the stars had a little help from Carol Burnett.

Host and accompanist John McDaniel, a Grammy and Emmy award-winning musician, says he invited Criss to be part of his summer Broadway series here after Criss performed on 2023’s Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Love + Laughter TV birthday special. McDaniel was the music director.

Criss’s best-known roles are his breakout portrayal of Blaine for five seasons (2010 to 2015) on Glee in a milestone-for-mainstream-TV gay romance with Chris Colfer’s Kurt, and his 2018 Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning turn as spree killer Andrew Cunanan in The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. (Both roles came thanks to producer and Provincetown part-timer Ryan Murphy.)

In addition to acting and singing — including Glee’s “Teenage Dream” cover that climbed the Billboard charts — Criss is a songwriter. He first won notice for co-writing and starring in 2009’s A Very Potter Musical parody for the Chicago-based StarKid Productions, which he co-founded. Criss’s A Very Darren Crissmas generated national holiday tours.

Shortly after Criss wrote the opening number for the 2022 Tony Awards, his friend Paul Miller, director of the Burnett tribute, asked him to refashion Stephen Sondheim’s “Side by Side” from Company into an homage to Burnett’s famous duets with celebrity guest stars.

In what he called “one of the coolest things I’ve ever gotten to be a part of,” Criss performed “Burnett’s Duets” for the star-studded birthday-party special with Broadway’s Sutton Foster. That came after he meticulously dissected Sondheim’s music to fit new lyrics and fine-tuned the arrangement with McDaniel.

“When I was doing this,” Criss says, “in my mind, I was going, ‘What would the ghost of Sondheim be OK with?’ ”

More Broadway music will be on Criss’s mind in Provincetown for what he says will be an unusual program because it likely won’t include original work or him playing guitar or piano; McDaniel will accompany him. Criss prides himself on not performing the same live show twice and plans to include Broadway songs he’s not yet sung in public.

That said, he recognizes fans might want to hear something connected to his own Broadway star turns. Those include — besides the nonmusical American Buffalo in 2022 — How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying in 2012 and 2015’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Plus, earlier this year, Criss starred in off-Broadway’s Little Shop of Horrors.

In September, he’ll originate a Broadway role for the first time, headlining Will Aronson and Hue Park’s musical Maybe Happy Ending. Criss plays an outdated, retired robot in futuristic Seoul who explores the nature of love with another retired robot (Helen J. Shen). To try to help boost its U.S. profile, Criss is also a producer of the musical, which has been a hit in Korea, China, and Japan. Its Broadway debut will be directed by Michael Arden (2023 Tony Award for Parade, Spring Awakening), a longtime Criss friend who directed the English-language debut in 2020 in Atlanta.

Criss is excited but nervous about the piece; he says it’s intimate and epic at once. “There’s an excitement about the uniqueness and specialness of this show that I’ve never encountered before,” he says. “So that’s either going to crash and burn and blow up in our faces or catch on. I don’t know, but the prospect is very thrilling.”

Criss, who is straight, made headlines this spring for comments at a Chicago expo about being “culturally queer” because of his admiration for the LGBTQ community. “The things in my life that I have tried to emulate, learn from, and be inspired by are 100 percent queer,” he said then, later adding that “it was in queer communities that I’ve found people that I idolize, that I want to learn something from.”

“That had to be the slowest news day ever,” Criss says about his comments getting attention — especially because he’s talked many times before about similar things, including how much it meant to be part of Glee’s Blaine-Kurt relationship story.

Beyond Provincetown and Broadway, in August Criss’s voice will be heard in an unusual spot: on season 10 of Netflix’s Gabby’s Dollhouse, a children’s show, as the new Marty the Party Cat, magical host of the Party Room. It’s a voice role Criss says was planned long before his two-year-old daughter and seven-week-old son were born to him and his wife.

Marty is described by Netflix as a lovable, “exuberant goofball” who has a big heart and the ability to laugh at himself.

“He’s a fun guy,” Criss says. “I’m aspirationally Marty the Party Cat.”

[arianna-in-the-land-of-costumes]

CHRIS COLFER'S BIRTHDAY VIDEO 2023!

Hi! With great joy I'm ready to launch, hopefully with your help and participation, Chris Colfer's 2023 birthday video, "From then to now"

I've started thinking about all the years we've been knowing Chris and following his amazing career, his projects and achievements. Related to this, I focused on the fact that since last year we've been celebrating the anniversaries of his book's publications and on how proud he is of being an author... and that's when the inspiration for the video came! We will be going down the memory lane, thinking back to when we first knew him, up until now!

Here are the instructions to participate in this year's project, if you're doing the video you can send just one, if you take pics you'll have to send two, one for each part!

I want you to share:

➡️ the first memory you have of Chris, how you got to know him, the first moment you thought how amazing he is

➡️AND then your favorite quote from his books! Plus wish him a Happy Birthday!

You can either:

-🎥 record a video of yourself telling about the first memory you have of him + then reading or telling your fave quote from his books+ WISH HIM HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Video lenght: max 20 seconds + the quote (make it possibly no more than 30 seconds in total)

OR

-📸 send two pics: one pic of the cardboard where you wrote down the memory (with yourself in the pic if you want). The second pic of the cardboard where you wrote down the quote (you can be in the pic if you want) +INCLUDE A HAPPY BIRTHDAY WISH!Pic: max 3 lines sentence about the memory+ the quote + Happy Birthday

->the video can be of yourself talking and not appearing if you're camera shy, or you can film a video showing just the cardboards

->the pic can be of yourself with the writing, or just the writing

->include the book where the quote comes from in the pic/vid!

TIPS! Write in BIG letters, take the pic/video in good lighting!

Send everything to: mylifeisathread@gmail.com and add your NAME and COUNTRY OF ORIGIN

⚠️Deadline is May 22nd!!!⚠️

I will post a youtube link of the video on Twitter on May 26th -the day before his bday! I would really appreciate if you could spread the word, share, repost! He loved watching the videos these past years and I'd love to involve more and more people! Thank you!

[justasmallbloginabigklainefandom]

I didn’t celebrate Chris Colfer’s birthday on my tumblr blog for the first time since I started a tumblr blog

damn

[kevinmchalenews]

Kevin with Chris Colfer celebrating JC Chasez's birthday (via ericpodwall) [August 8, 2022]

[colferpics]

Hello Everyone!

It’s Chris Colfer’s Birthday -- time to celebrate accordingly with a gif spam! :D 

We’re encouraging you to reblog with your favorite gifs of Chris today! 

Here are a few of ours! 

Come celebrate with us!!!

[cartoonfangirl1218]

Top 5 Female-led sitcoms

Now, these don’t all have female producers at the helm, it was more like they all had female leads.

1. Golden Girls

You cannot deny that Golden Girls is a number one classic for a reason. It has some of the best lines, full of life and cheer even at their advance age. But as my grandmother said "You got to laugh, kid" and that's what this show brings. Even dealing with important topics that sometimes still resonate today such as Alzheimers, interracial marriage, and AIDS but always with some zingers to keep it from being too preachy. Just because you're old doesn't mean you can't keep having adventures, finding love and doing it all with your friends. It's my comfort show, always brings a smile.

2. Teachers

This is an underrated comedy that I think deserves more love. Created by an all-female group of comedians called the KatyDids (all their names are a variation of Kate), a feat which I think is a first. It lampoons and satirizes the public school system with their teacher characters that probably shouldn't have their jobs (One uses the class time to have her 3rd graders dissect her exes posts with his new gf) but fun to watch. It also points out the failings of society such as gun control in schools (which they substituted as bear control), the double standards of female elected officials being sexually active compared to males, and more. Best pointed out in their musical episode, Lunchtime: The musical where the prissy teacher helps her friend with a zit in a Jersey Boy number- "Appearances don't matter is what we say to ugly freaks. Of course, they matter, there's so many things we can tweak. . . Now I know your face is giving you anxiety thanks to the standards of our patriarchal society."

3. Hot in Cleveland

Some critics said that this was a rip off of Golden Girls, using scripts that GG were too good for. But I think its just as good with its own spin on the subject of four middle/senior aged women living together on their third acts. After ditching the superficiality of CA, three women realize they're considered hot in Cleveland and decide to stay. In a house rented by Elka, played by the incomparable Betty White. It deals with the modern foilables of dating, and sticking together even as they get into one mad hijink after another. I always love their Birth date episodes (where instead of celebrating their birthdays and getting older, they arrange blind dates for each other. Always always hilarious) and of course, Victoria Chase's increasing convoluted chase for fame against mortal rival, Susan Lucci. It also had such great guest stars like Chris Colfer, Joe Jonas, Steve Valentine, Mary Tyler Moore, Peri Gilpin, Ed Asner and more.

4. Dollface

A modern Sex and the City for millenials I think. Somewhat. I don't know how to phrase it exactly but its certainly enjoyable with its all-star cast and specific aesthetic. I love the endearing bubbliness of it as it takes on Jules, a girl who recently dumped by her longterm boyfriend tries to reconnect with her collage friends who she totally ditched in favor of being perfect girlfriend. It goes on to such on-point topics like dealing with being in the middle of a friend fight, keeping secrets, catching feelings for your one night stand and trying to climb your career goal ladder (in which Jules works at a woman's lifestyle company soooo based on Paltrow's GOOP). Its earnest with a slight feminist bent too. Just endearing and worth at least one watch.

5. I love Lucy

I don't think I can do justice to I Love Lucy. I mean it made the sitcom. It was the first sitcom. It was so innovative for the time, showing the first pregnancy, an interracial marriage and more. Plus Lucy's slapstick humor still resonates today, she really was the star and who couldn't love her. I only put it fifth because I've only seen a few episodes, not the whole series.

Let’s see if the list stays the same once I get around to watching The Nanny.

[klainedrops-on-roses]

HAPPY 30th BIRTHDAY CHRIS COLFER • 27 MAY 2020

to celebrate, here’s the moments where Chris was the baby of the group

[shame-is-a-wasted-emotion]

Day 11 of Chris Colfer Birthday celebration!!

Day 11 prompt: at the radio show

He seemed to be promoting one of his books here. But nonetheless he is a working cutttie pie

@fallevs

[wowbright]

It's been oddly overwhelming to look at Tumblr today. Like in a physical way. And I couldn't figure out why, because I'm loving all these posts celebrating Chris Colfer's 31st birthday.

And then I realized what it was. Usually, my dash is like this:

Post

Post

Big white box with a blacklisted term at the center

Big white box with a blacklisted term at the center

Post

Big white box with a blacklisted term at the center

Big white box with a blacklisted term at the center

Big white box with a blacklisted term at the center

Post

And today everybody is so focused on Chris Colfer at the expense of other things that I don't have as many blacklisted posts as usual. I don't have those white boxes to break up the visual space.

I always thought I wanted Tumblr to actually hide my blacklisted posts instead of telling me they're hiding them by showing these enormous white boxes.

But apparently my brain has become dependent on them.

[historyofglee]

On this day in 2018:

members of the cast and crew of Glee reunited at the Blind Dragon karaoke bar in Los Angeles, California to celebrate Kevin McHale’s upcoming 30th birthday.

Joining Kevin at the celebration were cast members Jenna Ushkowitz, Vanessa Lengies, Becca Tobin, Heather Morris, Jacob Artist, Chord Overstreet, Ashley Fink, Chris Colfer, and Darren Criss.

Also pictured are Megan Doyle, Matthew Hodgson, Brittany Parks, Telly Kousakis, and Michael Hitchcock.

[spaceorphan18]

HAPPY 30TH BIRTHDAY CHRIS COLFER

It’s that time again to celebrate the loveliest of lovelies, Chris Colfer -- reblog with your favorite Chris Colfer gif, pic, or story!! And wish Chris a happy b-day.  Welcome to your 30s kiddo - it’s actually pretty great. 

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[klaineccfanficlibrary]

Would you please recommend me some good CrissColfer fics? Preferably if they are long-shots.

These are my favorite CrissColfer fics. Here are some one shots of various lengths. These are all good long shots. Enjoy!  ~Lynne

Full Disclosure by @the-cimmerians

Darren doesn’t have a girlfriend—and hasn’t had one for a long, long time. Chris doesn’t have a boyfriend, on account of reasons.

~~~~~

The Meisner Technique by colfer

A rehearsal at CC’s house goes very, very rogue. Yeah, that’s really all I can say without giving the whole thing away.

~~~~~

The Voltage Running Through Our Skin by kissedmequiteinsane

It’s Chris’ 21st birthday, and everyone’s going to go out to celebrate. But all Chris really wants is Darren. Too bad he’s straight and they’re co-workers.

~~~~~

That We’d Sink A Few More by  hellonik

There is a girl, Darren is taken by surprise, Chris is sort of in the middle of it all, and everyone feels a lot of feelings. And Ashley is very observant and also Chris’s best friend for a reason.