Show Choir - in The Media

In The Media

The cable television network MTV announced in October 2006 that it would tape an eight-episode reality TV series, Show Choir, following Morgantown, West Virginia's Morgantown High School show choir. The show was scheduled to premiere Spring 2007. It has yet to air, and no plans have been announced to reschedule that program.

In 2008 John Burroughs High School's "Powerhouse" from Burbank, California was flown to Hong Kong to perform and was all paid for by the board of tourism of Hong Kong

In Nickelodeon's Spectacular!, the main character, Nikko, joins a show choir.

Show Choir!: The Musical by Mark McDaniels and Donald Garverick made its premiere at the 2007 New York International Fringe Festival. The original musical comedy was awarded two awards for Overall Excellence. There was a subsequent staged reading in 2008 and in 2010, the show played a sold-out run at the New York Musical Theatre Festival. In 2011, the musical made its international premier in an acclaimed production by the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Since 2009, the Fox network, has aired Glee, is a musical comedy about a show choir, the "New Directions", at the fictional McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio.

In November 2009, the television series Rachael Ray featured the Wilmingtones Show Choir of Wilmington High School in Wilmington, Ohio, as a part of the Thanksgiving on Main Street special chronicling the lives of those affected by the DHL crisis.

In 2009, MTV visited Showchoir Camps of America for a week to do research and ended up shooting a pilot for a new potential reality show. Twenty two students from different states and schools were picked to be featured in the pilot during the week the camp was held. The group was called "The Gifted Others." This pilot set-up and helped create the show concept for MTV's reality show, MADE: The Real Show Choir.

In January 2010, Lawrence Central High School's "Central Sound" from Indianapolis, Indiana was featured on MTV's MADE: The Real Show Choir as they prepared to compete at FAME Events' Chicago competition.

In April 2010, John Burroughs High School's "Powerhouse" from Burbank, California performed on The Oprah Winfrey Show on an episode featuring the cast of Glee.

Many newspapers and news networks across the U.S wrote articles focused on the similarities and differences between Glee and the real world of show choir they portrayed. Interviews were conducted in multiple states including Massachusetts, Connecticut, Illinois and Ohio.

In October 2010, Parade magazine featured an article centering around Waubonsie Valley High School's "Sound Check" (IL) show choir, detailing similarities and differences to the nation's top show choirs and Glee. Other Schools noted by Parade were: Totino-Grace High School's "Company of Singers" (MN), DeKalb High School's "Classic Connection" (IN), and Clinton High School's "Attache" (MS).

Parade Magazine held a nationwide competition for America's Favorite Show Choir, in which the public voted. Touch of Class from Chantilly, VA won the 2010 competition.

In November 2011, Parade magazine's Website, Parade.com, ran an online popular pole in the "Search for America's Favorite Show Choir". "Happiness, Incorporated" from John F. Kennedy in Cedar Rapids, Iowa won the vote.