Happiness

Show choir is a big part of my life. In fact, its the most important thing to me other than my schoolwork. During the time period of November through early March, I spend more time at school practicing for show choir, at performances, or competing for show choir than I spend with my real family. I like it this way though. I have never been so close with a group of people than my show choir family. There are show choir moms, tech dads, the director, arranger, choreographer, tech crew, band and the ensemble. Each part of the show choir family is equally as important. 

Show choir moms are the right hand ladies to our director. Out of the 4 main moms, each has a designated job. The boss lady, Momma T, oversee's every part of show choir. She critiques at practices, helps with costumes, and plans community service things.. We also have a food mom, Mrs. Meyer. She is the one to provide the food. She calls local restaurants to ask them to donate food or she makes all of the food herself. Last, but certainly not least, Momma Craig. She is much like Momma T in that she does almost everything. She helps with the food, costumes, hair and makeup, and ordering of things like clothes. The moms make us look good.

The tech dads are important to us because without them, we wouldn't have props. Happiness does a novelty number as part of our show every year. This novelty number would be nothing without props. Each year the novelty is different but props never fail to enhance the number.  Our tech dads also help with "baby raisers" which are an extra set of raisers that the group puts on the stage before we perform. We use two levels of baby raisers. Other things the tech dads do would include driving the trailer to competitions, making sure everything goes right backstage, and being there to support us. The tech crew is a student group that helps during the performances. They place props where they need to be, set boxes up if we need them, and help with costume changes. 

The director is there to guide us in the right direction. He teaches the notes, tells us the dynamics and musicality, and then lets us do our own thing to make it right. He makes us sound good. He gets on our case about choreography that isn't clean, makes us clean it, then we run it until every time looks how it is supposed to or even better. The choreographer is responsible for teaching us the moves. He makes the songs look good. 

Last is the choir/ensemble. It's our responsibility to learn the notes correctly, do the dances well, and bring all of the concepts together. If we don't commit to everything more than 100 percent, we don't do our job. When we do our job, we do it well, and we win. Winning isn't the ultimate goal, but it sure does feel nice.