After four performances and many hours of hard work, Delta Sigma, Delta Nu, Theta Psi, Phi Sigma and friends took home the Singarama Sweepstakes Award for their show, “The Best Day of Your Life” Saturday night in Collins Alumni Auditorium.
The group also won the music category on Friday night and the staging category on Saturday afternoon.
“The Best Day of Your Life” starred junior acting major and Theta Psi member Nelson Tilley as an anxious wedding planner faced with multiple mishaps on the day of a wedding. Tilley said he was ecstatic after the big win.
“It’s an incredible experience,” Tilley said. “We’ve put so much hard work into it — just as every other club did. Words cannot express how happy I am.”
As a first-time Singarama participant, Tilley said he enjoyed getting to know people from the other social clubs in the group.
“I kind of equated Theta Psi and Phi Sigma’s relationship at the beginning to, like, a middle school dance,” Tilley said. “We were scared of them — they were scared of us. But I think we just love each other, and it’s just great to be part of such a loving group.”
Junior Emily Ann Ray directed the winning group. The Phi Sigma member has participated in Singarama twice before this year, but this year was her first time as director. Ray said she was thrilled that her group’s hard work paid off in a win.
“It made everything really worth it,” Ray said. “But I think that it was great after putting so much work into it — not just me, but our whole group.”
The win was especially important to senior Leah Owens.
“It’s very fun to win, especially because this is my last Singarama ever, and college is ending,” Owens said.
A member of Phi Sigma, Owens has taken two years off of Singarama to concentrate on nursing school.
“It has been so fun just to make memories with our new pledges, and also getting a lot closer to girls in Delta Sigma, Theta Psi and Delta Nu,” Owens said. “It’s just been really fun to meet new people that I didn’t know and that I probably wouldn’t have noticed, especially because I’m in nursing school.”
Photos by Erin Turner