{"id":20292,"date":"2025-04-10T22:15:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T04:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/?p=20292"},"modified":"2025-04-10T22:15:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T04:15:56","slug":"spring-sing-host-feature-anna-wright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/2025\/04\/10\/spring-sing-host-feature-anna-wright\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Sing Host Feature: Anna Wright"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/Edgar-Cardiel-Spring-Sing-_-Rise791-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20293\" style=\"width:491px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/Edgar-Cardiel-Spring-Sing-_-Rise791-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/Edgar-Cardiel-Spring-Sing-_-Rise791-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/Edgar-Cardiel-Spring-Sing-_-Rise791-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/Edgar-Cardiel-Spring-Sing-_-Rise791-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/Edgar-Cardiel-Spring-Sing-_-Rise791-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/Edgar-Cardiel-Spring-Sing-_-Rise791-1170x780.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/Edgar-Cardiel-Spring-Sing-_-Rise791-585x390.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo by Edgar Cardiel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSomething has changed within me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These well-known lyrics from Stephen Schwartz\u2019s \u201cDefying Gravity\u201d describe junior Anna Wright\u2019s experience stepping onto the Benson stage as a hostess for the second time. \u201cDefying Gravity\u201d is also Wright\u2019s feature song in Spring Sing this year. Wright said Steve and Dottie Frye have wanted to include the song in the production for a long time, but the right voice, theme and year didn\u2019t align until now.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The song also has a special meaning for Wright in connection with her feature song last year, \u201cWhat I\u2019m Doing Here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA lot of the meaning behind it was doubt about overcoming the \u2018I\u2019m not sure if I\u2019m really supposed to be in this place,\u2019\u201d Wright said. \u201cThis song is about, you know, something\u2019s changed. I do belong here, and I\u2019m going to rise up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wright\u2019s theatre career began in middle school while growing up in a musical family. She auditioned for her first musical in high school and has continued ever since. She has acted in other shows at Harding, including as Mae Tuck in the 2024 Homecoming musical, \u201cTuck Everlasting,\u201d and as a hostess for 2024\u2019s Spring Sing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wright said she was excited to be a part of the 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary show and auditioned this year because she thought it would be fun to do again. Wright and sophomore Weston Eades are returning hosts in this year\u2019s production.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been really cool to apply our knowledge from last year to try and help Spring Sing be better,\u201d Wright said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Spring Sing, no two shows are ever the same, even when hosts and hostesses return for consecutive shows. Wright said this year\u2019s host group is different because they were all good friends and performed together at Harding before this production.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat makes each Spring Sing unique to me is really the different people who are a part of the process,\u201d Wright said. \u201cEach different personality type and creative type brings a different flair and energy to the process\u2026 [This year,] we kind of have a lot more of a crazy energy. And so I feel like a lot of our intros and numbers have a lot more firecracker, crazy energy in some of the spots.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Edgar Cardiel \u201cSomething has changed within me.\u201d These well-known lyrics from Stephen Schwartz\u2019s \u201cDefying Gravity\u201d describe junior Anna Wright\u2019s experience stepping onto the Benson stage as a hostess&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[674],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-sing-2024"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}