Blog Post #7: Greek Sing

This past weekend, I performed in Greek Sing; which is when each sorority is paired up with two fraternities, and they put of a 5-10 minute play of a Broadway show that they were assigned to. The importance of Greek Sing is simply bringing the arts and theater to Greek Life. Greek Sing was an on-going process for about 2 months, with daily practices, various fundraisers, and long rehearsals in order to put forward our best performance. Once all the shows have performed, winners are announced and are honored for many different awards, such as best-overall short, best-overall long, costumes, set, etc.

My sorority was chosen to perform the Wedding Singer. Since many of us are not musically inclined when it comes to singing, we were assigned to dancing. For months, we were with a partner, mastering various lifts and stunts that would be appealing for the audience. But that wasn’t all we did. Under our Greek Sing chairs, we were in charge of making the set, creating costumes, as well as bringing in musicians to play the music for the show. It was a great way to really unite the sorority with the fraternities, because everyone had a vital part into putting this show together.

The actually show, was back to back performances of different plays, ranging from Rent, to the Lion King, to the Newsies. Watching all of the performances was truly impressive. It was great to see how much talent exists in the Greek Life community, and it was a great time seeing how everyone’s hard work paid off. I think that Greek Sing is a great way to enrich more of the student body in art, because in requires us to participate, but in the end everyone has a great time. Even the boys, who would never admit prior to the experience, enjoyed Greek Sing, and I can say that I met some life-long friends from this.