By Michael Freeman, Managing Editor
Next February’s Sing Song already is beginning to take shape. Directors, themes and show order were selected Saturday.
Social clubs and class acts worked with the Students’ Association and the Sing Song management team to pick their directors and themes. Class act directors were interviewed for their positions. The process for selecting class directors took about two weeks, while social clubs worked at their own pace for their selection processes.
“We make sure everything is where it needs to be,” said Tom Craig, director of Student Productions. “Plus it helps for them to work on it throughout the entire length of time instead of working on it at the last minute.”
An approval process will be used to ensure no acts duplicate shows from the past five years and that the acts will be appropriate. Themes were approved Wednesday. Song selection, lyrics, costume design and choreography still need to be planned, selected and approved. The process will continue until the week of Sing Song, which is scheduled for Feb. 20-21, 2009 in Moody Coliseum.
Five mixed group acts will perform next February: four class acts and an act by IEH. IEH, which is comprised of members from Essence of Ebony, Hispanos Unidos and the International Students’ Association, made its Sing Song debut last year. The directors for the act this year will be Anna Peters, Stephanie Robles and Stephanie Saxon. Meredith Morgan and Brittany Herrod will lead the freshman act; Jessica Williams will conduct the sophomores’ performance. Lindsey Fleming and Brent Dill will direct the juniors, and Angela Darden and Joey Hopkins will lead the seniors’ act.
For the women’s social clubs, Megan MacDonald and Brooke Zielke will lead Alpha Kai Omega. Carly Smith and Kourtney Nichols will direct Delta Theta, and Jamie Lyn Spires and Sara Potter will lead Ko Jo Kai. GATA will have three directors: Stephanie Smith, Ally Craigie and Kathy Maxwell. Sigma Theta Chi also will have three people in charge: Hannah Anderson, Erika Goldman and Kylie Jennings.
For the men’s social clubs, Isaac Bray and Nathan MacDonald will lead Frater Sodalis, and Wade Huggins and Chase Lindsay will be in charge of Galaxy’s performance. Ben Reeves and Tyler Lewis will direct Gamma Sigma Phi, and Derrick Bibb and Derek Ware will lead Sub T-16’s performance. Pi Kappa, which recently re-chartered, will be led by three directors: Jared Crewse, Levi Mawhirter and Paul Sims.
“We’ve had no problems this year,” said Preston Woolfolk, junior political science major from San Antonio and Sing Song co-chair. “These are going to be the best directors. It’s all gone really smoothly for a large-scale production that involves so many people.”
More than 1,200 students participate in Sing Song every year. Students can still get involved in next year’s show. To find contact information for the Sing Song directors, visit www.acu.edu/singsong.
“It’s going to be an exciting year,” Craig said. “We have some really creative ideas and very talented students. There is a lot of potential for a great show.”
