Darren Criss is giving himself a headache. The "Glee" star has already spent 45 minutes running through his entire adult life over the phone in painstaking detail -- "I'm getting ready to write my memoir," he jokes -- and cutting it short is hard. When he arrives on set for makeup, Criss, 24, tries to multitask. "I'm gonna be really L.A. I'm gonna put the Bluetooth in my ear," he says remorsefully. Within 15 seconds, though, he's abandoned that idea and escaped his glam squad in order to keep talking without interruption, marveling at his luck and plotting his next act out loud.
One might say "Glee" is Act 2 -- the first is set at the University of Michigan, where Criss, a mop-topped San Francisco kid fond of covering Alan Menken-era Disney songs, staged the very viral "A Very Potter Musical" with friends, started a musical theater production company (StarKid), co-produced the first student musical to chart on Billboard's Top Cast Albums ("Me and My Dick," in March 2010) and released an EP of singer/songwriter tunes ("Human"). In November 2010, of course, he landed the role of curious, confident and openly gay Blaine Anderson on "Glee" in his third audition for the show.
Video: "Glee" Warblers perform Katy Perry's Teenage Dream
It's not like "Glee" was hurting for success before Criss arrived. But with his dark curls and a rich tenor that envelops pop hooks not unlike a bearhug from your No. 1 high school crush, Criss has made an instant impact on the show's music sales. "Teenage Dream," the Katy Perry hit performed by Criss and his fellow Warblers (played by the Tufts University Beelzebubs), became the fastest-selling digital track in "Glee" history, and arguably ushered in the trend of more current pop hits being reworked by the cast.
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