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 […]
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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 […]
Seniors showcase arts in final production
Ricki Quinn was sitting in a park in Barcelona when a woman walking her chihuahua caught her eye. “She threw her arms up and yelled ‘Siéntate’ at her dog,” Quinn said. “I was astonished. Here, we would just point your finger and say ‘sit’.” The experience inspired Quinn, a fourth-year world arts and cultures/dance student, […]
Spring Sing Profile: Zeta Beta Theta
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 […]
Spring Sing 2014
Check out A&E’s weeklong coverage of Spring Sing 2014, with profiles of this year’s student musicians, dancers and actors participating in UCLA’s oldest musical tradition.
Chinese Fantasy Theatre Group’s play explores cross-cultural themes
A woman stands in a dark room with nothing but a chair. The scene is the most memorable for Yiran Wang, a first-year business economics student who plays the role of Jin Xiu. She is the star of the Chinese Fantasy Theatre Group’s spring production, “Phantom of the Kun Opera,” which premieres on Friday at […]