aficionados will recognize from her photo in the choir room and auditorium at William McKinley High School, has died. She was 78.
Galloway Heitz died Nov. 13 of congestive heart failure at a hospital in Highland Park, Illinois, her daughter, Amie Richardson, told on a plaque in a trophy case commemorating the life of Lillian Adler, the former head of glee club at McKinley High. That plaque, which contained Adler's birth and death years and the phrase, "By its very definition, Glee is about opening yourself up to joy," served as an inspiration for Will to take over as glee club director.
Galloway Heitz appeared in person just twice on the show, both in the same flashback scene: in the director's cut of the 2009 pilot and in the 2015 series final. Her plaque — and another honoring Cory Monteith's Finn Hudson — is seen in the very last shot of the series. Born in Minneapolis on Sept. 18, 1941, Galloway Heitz attended the University of Minnesota for a couple of years before making her way to Chicago in her early 20s.
While acting, she opened her own casting business and helped nurture the early careers of Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, Richard Kind and Eric Stonestreet, who always credited her for the success he would achieve onGalloway Heitz sold her agency in 1997 to pursue her passion for acting full-time and earned high marks in her feature debut as a neighbor of Sissy Spacek and Richard Farnsworth's characters...
'Show circle, everybody! Welcome to Nationals... I want you guys to remember something: Glee Club it not about competition. It's about something deeper. Glee is about opening yourself up to joy.' Most beautiful thing ever, Mrs. Adler...
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