Glee Starts Production on Season 5: Lea Michele, Darren Criss & More Stars Tweet from the Set

It's time to get back to work for the Glee stars.
Despite still mourning Cory Monteith's death,
production for season five has kicked off.
"Today was first day back," a source from the
show told E! News. "Last week was rehearsals but
today was first official day of production on new
season. Everything went as well as it could have.
Very emotional but everyone is starting to move
forward. Getting back on track."
Another source from production added, "It was
business as usual."
Lea Michele, who was spotted leaving a sound
studio in Hollywood today, tweeted earlier,
"Couldn't have picked a more beautiful & perfect
song to start the year with.."
Co-creator Brad Falchuk noted Monteith's missed
presence, posting a photo of the empty classroom
with a tweet that read, "Day one season five.
Something very big missing but everyone is
happy to be together and back to work."
"Day 1. #season5 #glee," Kevin McHale tweeted,
"thanks for the TT u guys :)
#GleeCastLovesGleeks," while Jenna Ushkowitz
wrote, "...here we go!"
Darren Criss also tweeted, "Annnnnnnnnd back
to work."
Meanwhile, Chris Colfer told HuffPost Live, "It's
difficult because it's hard to mourn someone, but
it's another thing to mourn someone with the
world."
He continued, "I think a line needs to be drawn,
because it's really unnerving to get messages
from people, from 12-year-olds in Nebraska
telling you how to mourn and telling you how to
pay your respects."
FOX Entertainment Chairman Kevin Reilly
recently revealed that Finn's death will be
connected with the late actor's troubled past.
"The third episode will write Finn out of the
show. That episode will deal directly with the
incidents involved with Cory's passing and the
drug abuse in particular," he said, though Reilly
wouldn't confirm that Finn would die from drug
overdose.