Cory Monteith<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Kevin McHale has made his Broadway debut<\/p>\n
The 38-year-old actor paid tribute to his late Glee co-star, who died in 2013 from an overdose aged 31, with a special dedication included in his cast biography as he takes over the roll of Brad Majors from Andrew Durand.<\/p>\n
In the Playbill for his Broadway debut on Tuesday (25.08.26), it read: \u201cFor Cory, his forever Brad.”<\/p>\n
In season two of Glee, the show had an episode called The Rocky Horror Show where the Glee Club performed the classic musical.<\/p>\n
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On the show, Cory’s character Finn Hudson played Brad Majors, with Lea Michele’s Rachel Berry cast as Janet Weiss.<\/p>\n
\nOn the morning of his first Broadway show, Kevin – who played Artie Abrams in Glee – took to X and revealed a poetic way he was being reminded of Cory before the show.<\/p>\n
\nAlongside a crying emoji, he wrote: “Sitting at breakfast and it’s song after song Cory sang on Glee. That’s my Brad.”<\/p>\n
\nLast month, Kevin slammed “diabolical” comments branding the deaths of his Glee co-stars Cory Monteith, Mark Salling and Naya Rivera a “sacrifice”.<\/p>\n
\nHe wrote on X: \u201cLet me log off today because the way too many of you talk about real people who have passed as a \u2018sacrifice\u2019 or a \u2018curse\u2019 in regards to a tv show is f****** diabolical and untethered from any sort of humanity or reality.”<\/p>\n
\nCory died from a drug overdose in 2013, and five years later, Mark took his own life shortly after pleading guilty to possessing images of child sexual abuse.<\/p>\n
\nIn 2020, Naya accidentally drowned while out boating on a lake with her son.<\/p>\n
\nA 2023 documentary, The Price of Glee, also detailed the untimely deaths of five crew members of the show, with second team lead and background wrangler Jim Fuller and a “lead prop guy” named Paul both dying after suffering heart attacks, and Mark Watson, a “main stand-in” for Matthew Morrison, losing his life in a “car fire”.<\/p>\n
\nIn addition, production assistant Nancy Motes took her own life, and rigging gaffer J.A. Byerly revealed his brother and colleague also died by suicide after the show ended.<\/p>\n
\nKevin himself has previously admitted he and his co-stars have joked about the show being cursed, but insisted they were just using humour to deal with a difficult situation.<\/p>\n
\nHe also said the wave of deaths were “horrible coincidences and accidents” and similar tragedies happened on other programmes.<\/p>\n
\nHe said on the Elvis Duran Show in 2024: \u201cI think it unfortunately is just a lot of horrible coincidences and accidents.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cIt’s a big cast of a lot of young people and things happen.<\/p>\n
\n“I think things happen on other shows as well and you’re working with crew members and things happen to crew members, you’re not necessarily hearing about that. But I just think a lot of unfortunate, really horrible accidents do happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
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