{"id":2918,"date":"2013-03-28T22:56:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T15:21:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T06:00:00","slug":"40-facts-for-40-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/2013\/03\/28\/40-facts-for-40-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"40 facts for 40 shows"},"content":{"rendered":"

“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.<\/p>\n

A collection of facts:<\/p>\n

Overall facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. 14-20 songs in a typical club show<\/li>\n
  2. 140 different songs in 2 hours<\/li>\n
  3. Cindee Stockstill has served as producer since 1995<\/li>\n
  4. Largest club show had 150 members on stage<\/li>\n
  5. 14 songs by host\/hostesses, ensemble, jazz band<\/li>\n
  6. Steve and Dottie Frye each put in 600-800 hours into each show<\/li>\n
  7. 120 people can be on stage at once<\/li>\n
  8. Smallest club show had 20 members on stage<\/li>\n
  9. 7 intro parody songs<\/li>\n
  10. Steve Frye has been diretor since 1995<\/li>\n
  11. 10,000-11,000 people attend Spring Sing each year<\/li>\n
  12. Hosts and Hostesses average 240 hours working on Spring Sing<\/li>\n
  13. Spring Sing 2014 is already being planned<\/li>\n
  14. Dottie Frye has worked with the hosts and ensemble since 1992<\/li>\n
  15. 300 performers were on stage at once for the 2002 show finale<\/li>\n
  16. The budget for the first Spring Sing show was $1,000The Jazz Band:<\/strong><\/li>\n
  17. 1 piano<\/li>\n
  18. 5 saxaphones<\/li>\n
  19. 2 drummers<\/li>\n
  20. 2 basses<\/li>\n
  21. 19 members<\/li>\n
  22. 1 guitar<\/li>\n
  23. 4 trombones<\/li>\n
  24. 2 feature tunes<\/li>\n
  25. 5 seniorsCostumes:<\/strong><\/li>\n
  26. 150 total<\/li>\n
  27. 50 were completely or partially built in the costume shop<\/li>\n
  28. 32 costumes were pulled from existing stock<\/li>\n
  29. 25 costumes were rented<\/li>\n
  30. 45 costumes were purchased<\/li>\n
  31. Costume crew includes 8 paid workers, working 50 hours per week<\/li>\n
  32. Used approximately 185 yards of fabric<\/li>\n
  33. 10 theater students help outChi Sigma Alpha\/Regina\/Sigma Phi Mu\/Oege show:<\/strong><\/li>\n
  34. Contains a dragon that took 3 months to build<\/li>\n
  35. 23 swords including King Arthur’s<\/li>\n
  36. Each knight’s chain mail armor is make of more than 1,250 pop can tabs<\/li>\n
  37. More than 50 rolls of duct tape were usedPTP\/Delta NuGamma Sigma Phi show:<\/strong><\/li>\n
  38. There are more than 300 yards of sparkle trim<\/li>\n
  39. 4 gallons of body paint were used for army men<\/li>\n
  40. 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.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Story by Bethany Aspey and Lyndsey Ruble<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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