Broadway songs

[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?

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]

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.

[FSUZeta]

all i can say is what were we all thinking back then???

[sarahanne]

I'm a summer camp counselor and we sing Pass It On/ The Spark Song. The first time we sang it during the summer, I sang the AOII version of it, oops! I got some weird looks from my campers! The Phi Mu chapter here sings it at their pref tea.

[OldAOPi]

Originally Posted by sarahanne

I'm a summer camp counselor and we sing Pass It On/ The Spark Song. The first time we sang it during the summer, I sang the AOII version of it, oops! I got some weird looks from my campers! The Phi Mu chapter here sings it at their pref tea.

I KNEW I wasn't the only one who did that! REMEMBER was the one I liked - and try to be forced to sing it with your sister, who was singing a black and gold Theta version at the same time....hmmm. I should ask my dd if they have retired that one yet. My mom thought that was so special. I guess she thought if I couldn't be a Theta (they didn't have a chapter where I went to college), then AOII must be OK if they used the same song. Yep, thats what I based it all on, lol.

[PeppyGPhiB]

Originally Posted by OldAOPi

I KNEW I wasn't the only one who did that! REMEMBER was the one I liked - and try to be forced to sing it with your sister, who was singing a black and gold Theta version at the same time....hmmm. I should ask my dd if they have retired that one yet. My mom thought that was so special. I guess she thought if I couldn't be a Theta (they didn't have a chapter where I went to college), then AOII must be OK if they used the same song. Yep, thats what I based it all on, lol.

Gamma Phi Beta has a song called Remember, too. Is it the same song? It's often used at Pref.

[SWTXBelle]

Let's see . . ."Consider Yourself" from OLIVER! would be good . . . we always did a version of George M.Cohen's "H-A-R-R-I-G-A-N", which was from one of his Broadway musicals (G-A-double M - A , P-H-I spells Gamma Phi. Proud of all the loyalty that's in me - wish I had a pin so big it hid me, G-A-double M - A, P-H-I you see, it's a name, grown to fame, since it to our campus came, Gamma Phi for me!) His song "Mary" could be adapted, too.
I think "I joined the circus" from "Barnum" could easily be adapted ( I joined (NAME OF SORORITY) like I wanted to, when I was a kid, climbed aboard that great bandwagon and you bet your life I'm glad I did!) - OH, and "The colors of my life" from the same musical. I think I'm too old - all the Broadway songs I can think of the PNMs probably don't even know.
I love "Popular" from Wicked as a Gamma Phi song, but don't think it really suitable for rush (Gamma Phi - you're gonna be Gamma Phi! . . .but it celebrates the superficial, which of course is not what its all about(!) )
I'm just really no help at all, am I? Oh well . . .

[Glitter650]

Originally Posted by sarahanne

I'm a summer camp counselor and we sing Pass It On/ The Spark Song. The first time we sang it during the summer, I sang the AOII version of it, oops! I got some weird looks from my campers! The Phi Mu chapter here sings it at their pref tea.

I have the same problem with that song. I was a member of Rainbow girls (a masonic youth org.) and we have a version of that song... I've frequently used the wrong version for the organization I'm at an event for.

[dgdramadawg]

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.

[OldAOPi]

OK, I had a glass or two of wine by now, remember I am WAY older than the legal age

"remember the friends you made here
remember when you're away
remember the fun you've had here
and don't forget to come back someday

and then....something... I DON'T remember, LOL

but it ends with

because you belong to AOPi, dear, and AOPi belongs to you....

And that's it. I forgot the rest.

[FSUZeta]

okay, so atleast gamma phi beta, alpha omicron pi and zeta tau alpha have the same "remember" song, but do any others?

can you imagine if all the sororities that have that song sang it as an exit song during prefs?that would make for some very confused pnms, i'll bet!!

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by FSUZeta

okay, so atleast gamma phi beta, alpha omicron pi and zeta tau alpha have the same "remember" song, but do any others?

can you imagine if all the sororities that have that song sang it as an exit song during prefs?that would make for some very confused pnms, i'll bet!!

I know A LOT of groups use Linger as their exit song for Prefs.

[carnation]

Somewhere on GC, we discussed how most of us have a song to the tune of "Today".

[SWTXBelle]

I preffed Gamma Phi and Zeta and still remember "The Call of Zeta" lo these many years later!

[FSUZeta]

it does kind of get stuck in your mind-but then, i guess that's what those rush songs are supposed to do!!