Rachel ( Lea Michele) confides in Jesse ( Jonathan Groff) of her lifelong dream to discover the identity of her mother. Will gives up his role in Les Misérables to Bryan in order to save the glee club. Bryan decides not to cut the glee club, and even presents them with new costumes and sheet music, but changes his mind when cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester ( Jane Lynch) announces that Will landed the lead role. They both audition for the role of Jean Valjean in the local production of Les Misérables, singing ' Dream On' as a duet. Glee club director Will Schuester ( Matthew Morrison) convinces him that it is not too late to pursue his dreams and sings ' Piano Man' with him. Having failed to realize his own dreams, he intends to cut the glee club. He then takes Artie's ( Kevin McHale) paper and tosses it into the trash, making a point that their dreams will never come true. He speaks to the glee club, asking everyone to write their biggest dream on a piece of paper. Her character, Shelby, is revealed to be Rachel's mother in this episode.īryan Ryan ( Neil Patrick Harris), a former McKinley High glee club member, arrives as an auditor from the school board. Idina Menzel ( left) was cast in Glee following a fan campaign based on her resemblance to Lea Michele ( right). Blair Baldwin of Zap2it in contrast felt that the songs were inconsistent, and while Harris' appearance was generally well received, Eric Goldman of IGN felt that his storyline was lacking in impact. Club all deemed it one of the best episodes of the season, while Aly Semigran of MTV, Entertainment Weekly 's Tim Stack and Raymund Flandez of The Wall Street Journal praised the musical performances. D Kennedy of the Los Angeles Times and Emily VanDerWerff of The A.V.

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'Dream On' was watched by 11.59 million American viewers and received generally positive reviews from critics. The episode features cover versions of seven songs, four of which were released as singles, available for digital download, and three of which are included on the soundtrack album Glee: The Music, Volume 3 Showstoppers. The episode title is a reference to Aerosmith's song ' Dream On', also performed during the episode. Rachel ( Lea Michele) attempts to find her birth mother, and Artie ( Kevin McHale) struggles with his desire to walk. Working as a school board auditor, he threatens to cut the glee club out of the budget, bitter at never having attained his own show-business dreams. Neil Patrick Harris guest-stars as former glee club star Bryan Ryan. It was directed by Joss Whedon and written by series creator Brad Falchuk.

The episode premiered on the Fox network on May 18, 2010. ' Dream On' is the nineteenth episode of the American television series Glee. 19th episode of the 1st season of Glee ' Dream On'

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