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Delta Gamma and Beta Theta Pi won the 24th Annual Sing Song with their Chicago themed show. DG’s Kaite Nickell won ‘Best Female Lead.’
Delta Gamma and Beta Theta Pi won the 24th Annual Sing Song with their Chicago themed show. DG’s Kaite Nickell won ‘Best Female Lead.’ (Spencer J Eggers/The Daily Campus)
Students, families and alumni flocked to McFarlin Auditorium on Friday as SMU’s most spirited tradition, Sing Song, took the SMU community on a cross-country musical tour of America.
Hosted annually by SMU’s Program Council, Sing Song is an event that highlights the singing, dancing and production skills of various organizations on campus.
This year, the show showcased nine ten-minute acts by campus organizations featuring states across the country.
Winning first place overall was Delta Gamma and Beta Theta Pi for their Chicago-themed show. Gamma Phi Beta and Black Men Emerging took second place for their small-town, Texas skit.
Alpha Chi Omega and Kappa Sigma came in third for their Detroit garage band production.
Judges appointed by Program Council decided first, second and third place awards.
A text-your-vote system was used to gauge audience response, which counted for a percentage of the final scoring.
The judges also decided the best male and female vocalist. Joseph Griggs of Sigma Phi Epsilon received the award for best male vocalist and Katie Nickell of Delta Gamma took home the prize for best female vocalist.
Participants in Sing Song voted at Thursday night’s dress rehearsal for additional awards. Best overall and best backdrop went to Delta Gamma and Beta Theta Pi. Theta Tau and Ambassadors to Prospective Engineering Students (APES) received the award for best costumes and best choreography went to Gamma Phi Beta and Black Men Emerging.
Best director, chosen by Program Council’s Sing Song Chair, Alex Muñoz, went to Bryna Garrison of Gamma Phi Beta.
Friday night’s show opened with a brief video montage featuring the dress rehearsals and practices of all the groups. Emceeing the event was campus icon Jennifer “JJ” Jones.
The first act of the evening was third-place winner Alpha Chi Omega and Kappa Sigma which brought Motown to McFarlin with swanky renditions of songs like Tina Turner’s “Rolling on the