Glee Live Tickets : A Concert Tour Was Hinted By Several Cast Members At The Beginning Of 2010

Glee Live! In Concert! is a concert tour performed by members of the cast of the popular television series, Glee. The tour, created by series creator Ryan Murphy was designed due to the overwhelming response to the series. The show reached North America, The United Kingdom and Ireland.

Murphy states the series' soundtrack and concerts were an additional revenue stream for the series. The tour received a great responses from both music critics and fans of the series. The first North American leg of the tour in 2010 was seen by over 70,000 spectators, generating over five million dollars in ticket sales ranking ninth on the Billboard Hot Tours list.

Initially, the cast of the series perform a small promotional tour ("The Gleek Tour") at various Hot Topic stores in the U.S. to showcase the series' soundtrack and to meet with fans of the show. This was followed with a performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Citizens Bank Park for the 2009 World Series. A concert tour was hinted by several cast members via Twitter at the beginning of 2010.

The success of the promotional outing lead to the creation of the concert tour. The tour was officially announced via Fox on March 1, 2010 at the conclusion of the first season. Lea Michele express her excitement for the tour stating, "This has been such an extraordinary year for 'Glee' and I can not think of a better way to finish up the first season than performing live on stage with the cast". Her comments were later shared by Cory Monteith stating, "This show has changed my life in so many ways.

Special appearances were made by Jane Lynch (Sue Sylvester) and Matthew Morrison (Will Schuester) for a performance at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City, New York.[Jonathan Groff (Jesse St. James) performed along with Michele at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, California and at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City, New York.

As the series entered its second season, Fox announced an additional tour leg in Europe. Murphy responds that the show in the U.S. saw an amazing response and the tour extension was to thank the fans overseas for their dedication to the series and promised an additional U.S. tour in the summer of 2011.

Ed Masley for USA Today described the opening concert as "equal parts musical theater, giddy pop culture phenomenon and Journey-loving rock show". He felt that Riley was the strongest performer, praising her renditions of "Bust Your Windows" and "Beautiful", and preferred the more "wholesome" songs, opining that: "The raps and overt sexuality on Salt-N-Pepa's "Push It" felt a little forced and out of character, especially sandwiched between "My Life Would Suck Without You" and ["Don't Rain on My Parade"]."

Amanda Kwan of The Associated Press was critical of the tour, deeming the debut concert "an evening that only a fan would appreciate" and "a glorified high school talent show". Kwan felt that the setlist was "disjointed", and noted that the cast slipped confusingly in and out of character throughout the concert.Martin Cizmar of the Phoenix New Times deemed the concert over-sanitized, criticizing the decision to change the "Bad Romance" lyric "I'm a free bitch, baby" to "I'm a freak, baby."

Mikael Wood for the Los Angeles Times enjoyed the first Gibson Amphitheatre concert, writing that it "had the triumphant, sometimes self-satisfied feel of a victory lap." MTV's Aimee Curran also gave the concert a positive review, writing: "The cast was able to make every song their own while still managing to maintain the original artist's integrity."