Broadway songs

OldAOPi · #1 04-23-2007, 12:52 AM

Not to date our songs - this was back in the dark ages of the late 70's.....we thought we were pretty hot when we changed my junior year to a Grease theme skit and song.

AOE2AlphaPhi · #2 04-23-2007, 02:26 AM

I was a PNM last year, and I would have liked Annie, the Wizard of Oz or Grease, because everyone knows them. I probably would have thought that it was weird for a chapter to do hairspray or wicked, even though they're big now, because they're still less well known, and even if people know their songs, they're less likely to get the plot. That might just be me though.

SWTXBelle · #3 04-23-2007, 07:25 AM

You are, of course, right, Irishpipes - the song was "Maybe". Don't even know where I got "Somewhere" - was I thinking "West Side Story". Don't know - blech.

honeychile · #4 04-24-2007, 10:13 AM

Was the song from Annie "Tomorrow"? We always tease my roomie's daughter about it, because when she was a baby, my roomie was in a theatre group, doing Annie. As she would sing "The sun will come out...", her baby would say, "Tomowwow." It was hysterical!

We've used "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend", "Pass It On", "Sweet Home ADPi", a particularly horrible version of "People", and many, many more. Ugh.

OldAOPi · #5 04-24-2007, 11:26 AM

Let's see - one time when we went out to help AOII recolonize Chi Delta (I think it was around 1980) we had to sing The Rose. Yuck. Took forever - was a little --- s -- l -- o -- w..... Bette Midler we weren't!

Glitter650 · #6 04-24-2007, 12:29 PM

To the tune of ROXIE from chicago..

The name on everybody's lips is gonna be PHI SIG
the ladies rakin' in the chips are gonna be PHI Sig

On campus we are celebrities that means sombody everyone knows

They're gonna recognize our eyes, our hair, our smile our fun our goals

From just some lowly undergrad we're gonna be PHI SIG

Who says that college life is a boar

and who'd of guessed as friends we'd hang

and start off college with a bang Phi sigma.

Glitter650 · #7 04-24-2007, 12:32 PM

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Originally Posted by OldAOPi

Let's see - one time when we went out to help AOII recolonize Chi Delta (I think it was around 1980) we had to sing The Rose. Yuck. Took forever - was a little --- s -- l -- o -- w..... Bette Midler we weren't!

We have a song to the rose as well.... it's LLOOONNGG and the words are really nice... but it's the one song that everyone grumbles about when we have to practice it with the new ladies. =)

PeppyGPhiB · #8 04-24-2007, 01:28 PM

I don't really get why so many people think "For Good" is good for preference. The words include, "I don't know if I've been changed for the better, but I have been changed for good." Why would you want to tell women during rush that you don't know if your life is better for being a XYZ?

I love "Consider yourself at home" from Oliver!, and "I don't need anything" from Annie, "Somewhere over the rainbow" from WofO, and "One" from A Chorus Line have possibilities. Actually, the more I think of it, I LOVE "One" for a skit.

TSteven · #9 04-24-2007, 03:39 PM

A friend of mine's Alpha Phi chapter did "Alpha Phi-ver". As in from the film "Saturday Night Fever". (Not really Broadway, but it took place in New York where Broadway is located.) I remember cause I helped some of the girls learn how to partner disco dance so they could be "the guy". Mind you, this was right after the film came out and while disco was popular.

dgdramadawg · #10 04-26-2007, 11:25 PM

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Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

I don't really get why so many people think "For Good" is good for preference. The words include, "I don't know if I've been changed for the better, but I have been changed for good." Why would you want to tell women during rush that you don't know if your life is better for being a XYZ?

And I have to assume that if chapters are using it for preference they are cutting the part about asking forgiveness from each other for wrongdoings... I mean, it's a nice song and all, but I agree that it's not appropriate for prefs.