Show Choir Shame & Glory
Sequins? Check. Showtunes? Check. Horrifyingly, offensively inappropriate title? Check. Ladies and Gentlemen, I humbly submit the greatest website of all time: Auschglitz, "a loving celebration of the magic that is the American Amateur Show Choir."
For those of you who are not familiar with the tradition of the high school show choir, imagine the gayest damn thing you can think of and multiply it times ten. Like, an army of weirdly aggressive teenaged Clay Aiken wannabes crooning age-inappropriate love songs gleaned from that year's big Broadway flop whilst doing a box-step in the cheapest costumes money can buy. (Sparkly vests are a staple.)
So are you ready for some Schadenfreude? I think you are. Click on the link. I said click. Are you clicking??
Ahem. Okay, that said? If anybody YouTubes the footage of me singing "Sun and Moon" in the Apple Valley High School SunSations' Miss Saigon medley, I will completely slit my wrists. That is all.
DannysNotHere
Posted to Gaiety on 25 February 2008
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'84, '85 I was in Concord High School's, (Elkhart Indiana) swing choir, the Concord Singers. My senior year we actually sang "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" For the big finale we actually lined up and did the "Soul Train Line" in which all the dancers form two lines with a space in the middle for individual dancers to strut down and dance consecutively. We stayed away from sequined pant suits and opted for matching Lands End Rugby Shirts and Slacks. God Bless the 80's!!!