“I had been wanting to do an Icons of Music kind of theme for a good while, and with Dr. Burks stepping down as president, and Dr. Ganus stepping down as Chancellor, it seemed a good time to wrap legendary ideas, music and people together in one show,” Steve Frye said.
A collection of facts:
Overall facts:
- 14-20 songs in a typical club show
- 140 different songs in 2 hours
- Cindee Stockstill has served as producer since 1995
- Largest club show had 150 members on stage
- 14 songs by host/hostesses, ensemble, jazz band
- Steve and Dottie Frye each put in 600-800 hours into each show
- 120 people can be on stage at once
- Smallest club show had 20 members on stage
- 7 intro parody songs
- Steve Frye has been diretor since 1995
- 10,000-11,000 people attend Spring Sing each year
- Hosts and Hostesses average 240 hours working on Spring Sing
- Spring Sing 2014 is already being planned
- Dottie Frye has worked with the hosts and ensemble since 1992
- 300 performers were on stage at once for the 2002 show finale
- The budget for the first Spring Sing show was $1,000The Jazz Band:
- 1 piano
- 5 saxaphones
- 2 drummers
- 2 basses
- 19 members
- 1 guitar
- 4 trombones
- 2 feature tunes
- 5 seniorsCostumes:
- 150 total
- 50 were completely or partially built in the costume shop
- 32 costumes were pulled from existing stock
- 25 costumes were rented
- 45 costumes were purchased
- Costume crew includes 8 paid workers, working 50 hours per week
- Used approximately 185 yards of fabric
- 10 theater students help outChi Sigma Alpha/Regina/Sigma Phi Mu/Oege show:
- Contains a dragon that took 3 months to build
- 23 swords including King Arthur’s
- Each knight’s chain mail armor is make of more than 1,250 pop can tabs
- More than 50 rolls of duct tape were usedPTP/Delta NuGamma Sigma Phi show:
- There are more than 300 yards of sparkle trim
- 4 gallons of body paint were used for army men
- Savannah Morris of PTP will be singing “Let’s Stay Together” by Al Green in a trio. Her mother was a back-up singer for Green in the original version.
Story by Bethany Aspey and Lyndsey Ruble
