My favorite part about high school choir was putting on the spring show. In middle school, I would try out for musicals, but by high school I realized they weren’t right for me.  All I really wanted to do was sing songs while dancing, without having an absolutely ridiculous after-school schedule. The spring show gave me exactly that. The show would be based on a theme: Every other year is Broadway themed, and the other two years I was in choir we did Disney and Hollywood.

My favorite spring show was junior year (Hollywood theme) in large part because we got to sing several songs from Les Misérables. We had really neat choreography where we went off the stage, then went around the auditorium so we could re-enter in the back after soloists were finished. I enjoyed how well the choreography went with the tone of the musical in general, and it was really easy to get into the songs. It helped that I was already in love with “Do You Hear the People SingI also had a lot of fun singing and dancing to Into the Woods and Sister Act that year. The spring show tends to end up being almost 2.5 hours long, and that year people returning from college said they hadn’t realized how much time was passing, and it was the best spring show they’d been in or seen.

The most off-putting song I did with a choir was called A Wonderful Guy, from South Pacific, in sophomore year. I enjoyed doing cheesy choreography to go along with the cheesy lyrics. However, one line in the chorus was “I’m as corny as Kansas in August,” and no matter how hard well all tried to emphasize the K, nobody was ever able to hear it, which changes the meaning considerably.

One song I really enjoyed was Schuyler Sisters from Hamilton, which the concert choir sang senior year. T=he choreography was difficult for me, but so much fun to do once I got the hang of it. I also hadn’t listened to many Hamilton songs before, and other choirs doing a song as well, I was introduced to a few more songs, and decided to keep listening to more afterwards.

In general, choir could get frustrating, but was always rewarding. I am very glad I got as much involved in it as I did.