By Cara Leahy, Student Reporter
This weekend, Angela Darden dressed as a mailman.
Darden, senior accounting major from Midland, was one of about 80 seniors who participated in this year’s senior act for the 2009 Sing Song: Believe. They rehearsed since January, and Darden was part of the three-person team who worked to put their performance together.
The senior class “mailman” theme came in a moment of inspiration, Darden said.
“We were just sitting around watching TV one night, and it just kind of came to us,” she said. “It’s kind of a day in the life of a mailman.”
From dog attacks to their rivalry with UPS and FedEx, this year’s senior class act was “definitely funny,” Darden said.
The group performed eight songs, including Surfin’ USA by the Beach Boys and The River by Garth Brooks, as well as pieces by ‘N Sync and John Mellencamp.
“We wanted to pick songs everyone would know,” Darden said, who was responsible for all the lyrics performed by the senior class act.
The performers had four rehearsals since the year began, and run-throughs started Tuesday, but Darden said things were laid-back for this year’s seniors.
“We’re just having a good time. A lot of people are in club acts, so they’re taking those pretty seriously,” she said.
One of those seniors is Sydney North, marketing major from Bedford and co-chair for Sing Song.
North participated in Sing Song throughout college as an usher her freshman year, then as a performer in the Ko Jo Kai act her sophomore and junior years. Now as co-chair, she not only helped keep the senior act organized, but she also played a mailman-attacking dog in their performance.
North said about half of the students in the senior act participated in both club and senior acts, and although at times she personally found it difficult to do both, she said she was glad to be part of the last class act in her college career.
“It’s our one chance as club members to get to do a Sing Song act with our friends from other clubs,” North said in an e-mail.
North said she thought the seniors had a good chance to win, but Darden said she heard the sophomore act would prove tough competition.
Audiences decided for themselves which act was the best, beginning Thursday at the non-judged, general admission performance, followed by shows Friday and Saturday.
