If you ever did SING! or any High School Theatre you know how much it made you grow as a person. Now that I'm watching SING! as an outsider for the first time in four years, I realize what it actually did for me. Here's what I learned.
1) You're not going to win all the time
Every single person in SING! puts their all into putting up a musical in a months time, but there is only one winner. This was the biggest lesson I learned from SING! no matter how hard you try, you don't win all the time, but that doesn't stop you from trying again next year. (Shoutout class of 2016.)
2) You aren't "too cool"
If you didn't participate in SING! week you missed out on the greatest photo opportunities of a life time.
3) RESPECT PEOPLE.!!!!
Remember that fight that all 300 chorus members and 17 leads were crying about? That wouldn't have happened if you respected your leaders or your teammates. Respect people, it goes a long way.
4) Make friends (and keep them)
SING! is not fun without friends. Make friends and keep them for all four years. I made some of my best friends through SING! and I cherish every single memory I made with them during SING! time.
5) The people who start drama don't matter.
There is always going to be someone who is salty that you're spot is on zero, or that the choreographers put you in the front for every number, or the directors gave you a cameo. Petty drama ends in high school, and if you're in college starting drama no one is going to be friends with you.
(SING! also taught me that you can in fact be too helpful. That's a real experience my Junior Year. Shoutout to Central SING! Take some points off PLEASEEEEE)
