Spring Sing

since i have returned to school, life has been non-stop action. last week, amidst being quite sick, every night constituted of Spring Sing practice. now, lets do a little overview of what Spring Sing is for all y'all who don't know. Spring Sing is perhaps one of Westmont's biggest traditions. it is a competition between all the dorms, in which each dorm (both men and women) get eight minutes to put on a skit that includes a few famous songs with the lyrics rewritten to go along with the plot. so, you have acting, singing, dancing...the whole shabang. unbelievably silly, but loads of fun. each year there is also a theme phrase that everyone must use in their skit; this year it was "the whole nine yards".
Clark's (my dorm) plot was a search for a new king (RD), since our current RD, Mark, is leaving after this year. although we didn't take the awards for best men, best women or sweepstakes, we did make Spring Sing history. we were the first ones to ever have men and women of a dorm to team up, making one 16 min skit, instead of two separate 8 min ones. women went first, opening with the song Everybody by the Backstreet boys. here were our lyrics:

everybody (yeah)
stop your body (why)
hear ye hear ye. got some news for clark. say goodbye to mark
oh my gosh what will we do
he's leavin me and he's leavin you
gonna travel far and travel wide
got a question for ya. can you tell m why
is he gone for good (yeah)
will we miss him so (yeah)
can we still facebook him (yeah)
now a rulers what we need we better find a new king now. everybody.
the skit then went on to search for different kings, with our main characters of five knights encountering a lion (king of the jungle) and the next song opening into i just can't wait to be king

he's gonna be a mighty king
so emmerson beware (emmerson is another dorm)
we'll we've never had a king of clark that gave us such a scare
he's gonna be an epic king this jungle carnivore
his mane is thick, his teeth are sharp, his prayer life i hardcore
seems like a Ben Patterson kind of thing (he is our campus pastor)
oh i just can't wait to be king

the song ends to discover that the lion has eaten one of the knights, no longer presenting him as a good candidate for king of clark. the knights continue their journey and hear a high pitched scream. thinking the lion has gotten someone else, the knights stop, worried. but, it is just good ol' MJ (king of pop...cleaver eh?) telling all the other kings to just "Beat it":

heard clark was looking for a king around here
we think he's just the man he came to volunteer
you others don't compare so we'll make it very clear
just beat it. just beat it
the king of pop he wants to be in command
and he can turn this kingdom into neverland
he's gonna be king, rule with one gloved hand
so beat it (beat it), beat it, (beat it)
too bad you'll all be defeated
showin' how funky and strong is his might
it doesn't matter if he's black or white
just beat it.

but, again returns the lion to claim Michael Jackson. too bad. so, as clark is still in search for a king, our skit ends with "another one bites the dust":

another king bites the dust
another king bites the dust
and another one down
another crow turned to rust
hey, we've got a lot to do
this quest has been a bust.

so, the girls skit had no resolution, but then the boy's picked up right where we left off, eventually bringing in the new RD for clark next year.

the whole process was so much fun. it definitely promotes a lot of dorm unity and is a great way to meet new people. that was a lot of what my weekend was. if i find pictures, i'll be sure to share them. i was a bird in the lion king, so my costume was pretty crazy. my mom came up, so it was good to spend time with her this weekend and show her all the different restaurants and shops.

over and out. :)