Lea Michele, the 24-year-old Broadway ingenue-turned-breakout star of Fox’s “Glee,” will receive the Triple Threat Award at the 2010 Billboard Women in Music Event on Dec. 2 in New York, it was announced today (Nov. 16). Michele will be celebrated alongside Jazmine Sullivan, who is receiving the Rising Star Award, and Black Eyed Peas vocalist and Grammy-nominated artist Fergie, Billboard’s Woman of the Year.

“I’m so excited!” Michele tells Billboard.com of receiving the honor, which recognizes excellence in performance across acting, singing and dancing.” “At work we have a nickname for Matt Morrison — we call him ‘Triple Threat,’ because he’s an incredible singer-dancer-actor. And now I get to borrow that phrase, which is really cool.”

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O-M-Glee: Lea Michele and Cory Monteith
With triple-threat talent and starring roles on TV’s hottest series, Broadway baby Lea Michele and rising heartthrob Cory Monteith are making geek chic.

A perfect harmony is always pretty. But some of the best duets derive their power—and their charm—from the way that they blend two very different voices. Consider this summer’s inescapable “California Gurls”: The Katy Perry and Snoop Dogg collaboration layered a clear, lilting soprano over a somewhat rougher male vocal to memorable (and catchy) effect.

A similar dynamic is at work in the relationship between Lea Michele and Cory Monteith, the artfully mismatched pair at the center of FOX’s musical smash hit Glee. The two actors have even less in common than their in-love alter egos, Rachel and Finn: Lea’s an ambitious ex–New Yorker who made her Broadway debut at the age of eight—the part of a driven would-be star was written, series cocreator Ryan Murphy has said, with her in mind. And Cory’s a Canadian-born former odd-jobber who was so unsure of his singing that he elected to “drum on Tupperware and wineglasses” with a pair of unsharpened pencils during his first audition for the show.

Yet at their recent Teen Vogue interview, conducted over lunch at a favorite Los Angeles café, the two stars demonstrated a winningly effervescent—and utterly un-fake-able—rapport.

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The voting has now opened for GLAMOUR’s 2011 Best Dressed list and Lea is in the running:

Best Dressed Newcomer
Lea Michele
Often seen smouldering on the red carpet in sizzling Hervé Léger or Oscar de la Renta, this Glee actress’ fashion choices are already attracting as much attention as those of her Gossip Girl rivals.

Do you agree? Vote here now!

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The Dorothy of Oz official site is open! There you can find behind the scene videos, art gallery, games and more. You can follow them on twitter.

The Gates of Oz are now open! Visit www.dorothyofoz.com to explore Oz like you never have before!

And don’t forget to watch Lea tonight on Conan! The show will start at 11/10c on TBS.

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Glee star Lea Michele goes behind the microphone as Dorothy in the musical, which will feature original songs by Bryan Adams, Jim Dooley and Tift Merritt.  Source

Lea Michele in ‘Dorothy of Oz’: New footage. Are you excited? Scroll down the page to watch the video.

Lea will be on Conan’s new show next Monday!!

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You can see this Emmy and Golden Globe nominated actress each week as Rachel Berry on the smash hit TV show, “Glee!”

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In May, we told you about Lea Michele’s Dove Hair Care commercial in which she covers, ‘My Favorite Things.’ Well, now Glee fans everywhere can find the song on the ‘The Sound of Music: 45th Anniversary Edition,’ which is due out tomorrow.

That’s right, Gleeks. No more hitting replay and refresh on your computer — you can now rock the song on your iPod. The updated soundtrack features all 23 tracks from the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, plus Lea’s special rendition of one of the film’s most famous songs.

Although the commercial first hit the Web six months ago, Dove has been running a shortened version of it on TV, which kicks off right at the beginning of Lea’s number. Rachel Berry would be oh-so-proud.

We’re really not surprised by the New York native’s involvement with the anniversary soundtrack. Before her stint on Glee, the 24-year-old was a Broadway actress, starring in productions like Les Misérables, Fiddler on the Roof and Spring Awakening.

Check out Lea’s studio recording of ‘My Favorite Things’ below, and listen to the entire ‘The Sound of Music: 45th Anniversary Edition’ here. The album will be available in stores and on iTunes on November 2. source