By Mary Shinn
September 7, 2010 at 9:44 pm
Inspired by the hit TV show “Glee,” a group of ASU students will
be heading back to high school this semester to start a show choir.
GLEEders, a group of ASU mentors, will be advising three show
choir groups of students from Corona Del Sol High School and middle
school students from the Tempe area, said Amanda Nguyen, the
founder of GLEEders and a junior at ASU.
The show choirs will perform popular songs featured on “Glee”
with choreography, including songs like “Defying Gravity” from
Wicked, a play, and “Rehab” by singer Rihanna, Nguyen said.
The high school women’s and mixed choir groups will start
rehearsing at Corona Wednesday, and the mixed middle school choir
will hold auditions on Friday, she said.
Each choir consists of about 30 people, and a team of about
15 ASU students sponsored by Barrett, the Honors College, will
coach all three of them, Nguyen said.
Helping to direct a show choir last year at Pueblo Middle
School, where Nguyen started singing in choir as an eighth grader,
provided a background for her to found the mentorship program, she
said.
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