Fox 5 aired a segment about Chantilly’s Touch of Class on September 9 before the season premier of “Glee,” a show with similarities to Chantilly’s own show choir.

The clip had footage from the Touch of Class 2009 Jazz and Pizzazz show as well as from their summer training camp.

“My dad wanted to get the word out that there is a choir in our own backyard that does this,” Watrud said.

Many of the Touch of Class members, including junior Diego Elliot, said that it will boost attendance to their performances.

“Once they see ‘Glee,’ they will be interested in show choir,” Elliot said.
In addition to show attendance, junior Lauren Holcombe predicted the number of people that want to join Touch of Class will rise.

“I know a lot of people that didn’t use to come [to tryouts] and now they say, ‘Oh, we heard you guys on the news that’s really cool,’” Holcombe said.

For many of the students, it was nice to finally get recognition for what they do.

“We do a lot more work than people give us credit for,” Watrud said. “’Cause people don’t think of us as hard workers. They think of ‘Oh, show choir, that’s nothing.’

Along with the recognition, the students were excited merely to be on the news.

“They were all pretty excited because we’ve seen ‘Glee,’ and that is like what we do,” junior Hanna Busse said.
The purpose was intertwining Touch of Class and ‘Glee’ Watrud said.

Combining Touch of Class and ‘Glee’ on Fox 5 showed the similarities between the choirs.

“Glee has so many truths about show choir,” Holcombe said, “We have the same amount of passion and dedication as the characters on Glee.”