Sororities, fraternities and class acts have spent the last several months preparing for Sing Song by learning music, choreography and designing and creating sets and costumes to match this year’s act themes.
This year’s themes are as follows:
GATA: Crayons
Sigma Theta Chi: News Anchors
Tri Kappa Gamma: Weather
Ko Jo Kai: Toy Soldiers
Delta Theta: Vegetables
Gamma Sigma Phi: Top Gun
Frater Sodalis: Wheel of Fortune
Galaxy: Electricians
Sub-T-16: Surfers
Freshman Purple: The Wizard of Oz
Freshman White: Jonah and the Whale
Sophomore/Junior: Pixar’s UP
Senior: Bowling
William Grandell, senior nursing major from Carrollton, is GSP’s Sing Song director. He said GSP had done a Top Gun inspired act in the past, but Grandell wanted to recreate it for this year’s competition following the 2022 release of the movie’s sequel, Top Gun Maverick.
“One of my favorite acts GSP did for Sing Song was 2004’s Top Gun act, and then Top Gun of course was a big deal this year,” Grandell said. “I just thought this would be the perfect time to redo it but put a twist on it with the sequel.”
Grandell said he chose to parody songs that were done in the 2004 act, as well as add new songs that are included in the movies soundtracks.
Molly Mercer, freshman vocal performance major from Abilene, is leading this year’s Freshman Purple act with the theme Wizard of Oz. Mercer said she and her co-director were workshopping lots of potential Sing Song theme ideas, but landed on the Wizard of Oz for its potential for a variety of costumes and a colorful set.
“We thought about very abstract ideas and themes that wouldn’t be thought about from some other groups,” Mercer said. “We were wanting them [costumes and the set] to look good on stage, and have lots of creative costumes. We thought about wizards, and Wicked, and tied it all together to come up with the Wizard of Oz.”
Both Grandell and Mercer said they plan on bringing their act to life by putting act participants in charge of creating set and costumes based on their majors and skill sets.
