For the past two summers, “Gleeks” all over the country have been rushing to get tickets to see the stars of ‘“Glee” live on stage. But the show’s producers have announced that the concert tour will be cancelled this year.

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Last year’s “Glee Live! In Concert!” tour made over $40 million and was the 16th most successful tour of 2011, according to Billboard magazine. Despite the financial success, the show’s organizers are instead planning a charity concert at The Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles later this year. Proceeds would benefit music education programs through the “Glee” Give A Note campaign. The goal is to raise $10 million. No dates have been set, but sources speculate that the earliest the weekend-long benefit will take place is September. 

The “Glee” Give A Note campaign raises money through DVD and Blu-ray sales to support music education programs. The campaign recently donated a total of $1 million dollars to schools in Ohio, New York, and Alabama.

The Hollywood Reporter says that the show’s co-creator Ryan Murphy was one of the people trying to give the cast the summer off, after filming 16 hours a day plus attending dance rehearsals and song recordings. Murphy and the others working with “Glee” wanted to give the cast a break as well as an opportunity to work on other projects.

 Murphy is a busy man himself, currently working on a second season of FX’s “American Horror Story,” producing Oxygen’s “The Glee Project,” and even has a new comedy pilot for NBC called “The New Normal.”

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