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Amateur adult singing groups, meanwhile, are reporting a crescendo of interest. Since June - following Glee's May premiere - the number of neighborhood songster gatherings listed on Meetup.com has nearly doubled, and participation has jumped 45% from 27,475 on June 1 to nearly 40,000 today. "[Glee] kind of inspired me," says recent Meetup convert Jessica Lin, 28, of Santa Clara, Calif., who enjoyed listening to a cappella groups as a student at the University of California, Berkeley, and now gets together with half a dozen or so Silicon Valley buddies every week to sing. Meanwhile, over in Michigan...
...East Room remarks, the President invoked the role the arts can play in the morale of a nation. "In times of war and sacrifice, the arts remind us to sing and to laugh and to live.... In days of hardship, they renew our hope that brighter days are still ahead," Obama said. "We can overcome whatever comes...
...moment of terror imagining being trapped with this many children on a bus. But our group soon bonded by way of carriage rides, strudel-making lessons, fencing demonstrations and castle tours. As the junior passengers rolled their eyes at us, we adults were busy on the bus enjoying sing-alongs of Disney tunes. It was our inner children we were really taking on vacation--the kids were simply along for the ride...
...didn’t suspect that the wedding would bring out so much generosity,” Stallings says. Friends have offered to photograph and sing at the wedding, and the couple feels that the support is not unidirectional...
Isabel Q. Carey ’12 and Benjamin K. Moss ’13, who play Rizzo and Danny, respectively, are able to sing over the band in their solo numbers, but not all of the actors have the same vocal power. The ensemble numbers encounter a similar problem, with the voices of the chorus and the live band making it difficult to distinguish the lyrics. The choreography in these sequences, however, remains quite solid and helps to make up for any musical deficiencies...