Some Audition Info

I moved back into Penn a couple of days ago. The first night back, I was walking with a friend and we saw little pow wows of freshman sitting on the college green. They all looked so eager and ready to claw each other’s eyes out - especially the Wharton ones. How to distinguish between a Wharton freshman and one with a soul? You’ll soon find out.

The point is that all of you freshman, as well as you older students who have not yet realized their creative potential, are about to have an opportunity to audition for the Pennchants! Or I guess you could try out for other groups as well. Yay PAC.

Sarcasm aside, the beginning of the year is a really exciting time. Every a cappella, dance, comedy, and theatre group holds auditions and accepts a few new members. How do you figure out which group to audition for? Come to Freshman Performing Arts Night on Saturday, September 6^th. Check out PAC’s website for more details on that - http://www.dolphin.upenn.edu/pac/ . You’ll get a nice little sample of just about every performing arts group on campus – including the Pennchants.

If you like what you see of the Pennchants, which you no doubt will, come try out. AUDITIONS ARE SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7^TH FROM 12PM-4PM IN HOUSTON HALL ROOM 311 AND MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8^TH FROM 8PM-12AM IN HOUSTON HALL ROOM 301. Auditions obviously don’t take 8 hours, you just have to stop in on one of those days at some point during those times and quickly show us why you are funky enough to join the group. No pressure.

In all seriousness – if you’d like to know more about the group, friend us on facebook and send us a message. Better yet, send me or someone else in the group an e-mail. My e-mail address is winsten@wharton.upenn.edu .

So… let’s sum up this post.

      1.   Shoot us a message if you’d like more info. We don’t bite.
2.     Come see us (and other groups) perform at FPAN on Sept. 6^th – all the cool kids will be there
3.     Come audition Sept. 7^th between 12PM-4PM or Sept 8^th between 8PM-12AM
4.     You’ll maybe get called back after we judge you like how 13-year-old Jewish girls judge each others' bat-mitzvah outfits

We’re excited to meet you guys! Or at least the talented ones.

Just letting you know, we are almost as good as this guy.

In the wise words of St. Obama: We need change

Hello children! So this is the first entry. Very exciting, I know.

My name is Mike, AKA “White Mike*,” and I am about to start my sophomore year at the University of Pennsylvania (not Penn State). More importantly, I am a proud member of the Pennchants – the sexiest, raciest (not racist), hairiest, most masculine all-male a cappella group on campus. You can check out our official website at www.pennchants.com.

Unfortunately, our current webmaster, Zhibo – yes that’s actually his name – is a lazy piece of shit (love you, Zhibo) and our list of current members still contains guys that graduated before I was born. That’s an over exaggeration, but still.  The point is: our biz staff was throwing around some fresh ideas for the 08’-09’ school year and the idea of a blog popped up. Get it? Blog… Online… Pop ups… kind of like when people watch porn… ha. Don’t act like that’s not what you were doing before you got to this blog. Perv.

Anyway, a Pennchants blog is an easy way to reach anybody who cares with updates on the Pennchants’ fall and spring shows, road gigs, new CD (that sounds baller so far, by the way), gossip/drama, good sex stories, etc. If Republicans can manage to be online, why can’t the Pennchants?

We are approaching the group’s 20^th anniversary (founded in 1989 - go to our actual website for the long and uneventful story) and want to better connect with fans, alumni, friends, Amy Guttman, your mom, and the Penn/Philadelphia community.  As I/whoever-from-the-group-cares-to-send-me-a-guest-post updates this blog with news, pictures, videos, funny stories, or whatever, hopefully we can accomplish just that. Why not make this your homepage so you can come back and see us every day? Who needs Google anyway, those whiny bitches.

Moral of the story: get pumped, li-li-li-li-lick it like a lollipop, and hold your daughters and sons (we respect sexual minorities) back. The Pennchants are better and more badass than before and will be rocking harder than you’ve ever seen. Plus, our current president is a model.

 

*Not to be confused with “Asian Mike.” He is a lot stronger than I am.