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His silence did not go unnoticed. In fact, it created quite a buzz in social media-spheres, as his Twitter followers and Facebook fans there are several pages dedicated to him waited in vain for Ellis to speak. Their wait is over. I now have 20, Twitter followers, many of whom blew their lids!

Ellis commented on his speaking debut over email from L. Ryan Murphy said to me, "You better get used to wearing all black. The next day I came to a meeting at Fox, wearing black from head to toe, and Dante Lorenti, another one of the producers, told me that's not what Ryan meant.

He meant to wear black when I was on the set and we were filming. Jane Lynch didn't even know I was a real musician. You hate them all. CNN: That certainly explains some of your facial expressions on the show.

Are you currently coaching any of the actors on the show? Early on, I worked extensively with Cory [Monteith, who plays student Finn Hudson on the show], starting from before they approved him for the show. He sent in an audition tape where he did lines and he did some drumming. It was really charming, but you got to the end of the tape and you realized that he hadn't done any singing. The truth was he hadn't done a lot of singing and the question was would [the singing the show required] be something he would be able to grow into.

I could tell after the second or third time working with him that he was going to be able to do this and anything else he put his mind to.

CNN: There are so many actors on the show who have appeared on Broadway, it must feel like old home week going to work. Ellis: It's funny you should say that because when I first met Ryan [Murphy, the show's creator], I thought, "Oh, he is pure theater. It's like I'm on the lot at Paramount, I'm not moving and they are bringing to me some of my best friends. For a while, Kristin [Chenoweth, who has guest-starred on the show as "April Rhoades,"] had a concert cabaret act and I was her music director.

Ellis: I seem to have three classes of fans because I am what I call a "sub-lebrity," which is a little below the basement of celebrity. Getting On Music Department. Show all Hide all Show by Jump to: Music department Actor Self Archive footage. Hide Show Music department 6 credits. Show all 75 episodes. Hide Show Actor 6 credits. Brad the Piano Player uncredited. Show all 36 episodes.

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