Last year, fraternity/sorority team Zeta Beta Tau and Kappa Alpha Theta did not make it into the Spring Sing lineup. The partnership proposed a musical that poked fun at the Occupy Wall Street movement which, much to the disappointment of the show’s co-creator Ben Kurzrock, was deemed a bit too controversial. Kurzrock, a second-year global […]
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Spring Sing Profile: ACA Hip Hop
Under the dim lights of the Sunset Village parking lot in the days preceding Spring Sing, the dancers of the Association of Chinese Americans Hip Hop repeat their sets relentlessly. “The longest we’ve gone was this year from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m.,” said fourth-year music performance student Tung Vu. “Our motto is we don’t […]
Spring Sing Profile: Company
Spring Sing’s 2014 Company started their relationship with a speed dating game, rotating partners every few minutes. The topic of conversation was, “What talents do you bring to Company?” Each member was forced to answer, most defaulting into awkward laughter and responding with bad impersonations. After hours upon hours together in rehearsal, these 12 students […]
Spring Sing Profile: Delta Gamma and Lambda Chi
Delta Gamma and Lambda Chi Alpha joined houses to create a production trifecta of dancing, singing and acting to reveal to the crowd at Spring Sing 2014. After starting the audition process in the beginning of winter quarter and working diligently on the auditions, choreographies and training, members of the Delta Gamma sorority and Lambda […]
Spring Sing Profile: Hooligan Theatre Company
For Hooligan Theatre Company’s Spring Sing co-writers and directors Sara Ashley Beil and Aaron Fish, it was the moments after delivering their Spring Sing pitch to their ensemble after weeks of a creatively draining scripting process that were the most nerve-wracking. Beil, a second-year English student and Fish, a second-year mathematics student, refrained from sharing […]
Spring Sing Profile: Bruin Harmony
Members of Bruin Harmony, UCLA’s only all-male a cappella group, have been rehearsing two-and-a-half hours a day, three times a week, for the last few months to perfect the marriage of their song and choreography in preparation for Spring Sing 2014. Following the group’s Spring Sing victory last year as best a cappella entry and […]
Spring Sing Profile: Resonance A Cappella
To the students that made it through auditions in fall 2013, Darryn Wong said Resonance A Cappella was new. He said the group’s existing members could not promise them anything aside from the ability to join an upcoming group that they could call a family. Resonance will be the youngest a cappella group, by a […]