For years, the number of Spring Sing directors per club show was left to the discretion of each club. Starting in 2015, Spiing Sing director Dr. Steve Frye implemented new rules to restrict the number of official club directors involved. Under the new rules, club size determined the number of directors necessary to manage each show: two directors for clubs with 75 or more active members and one director for clubs with fewer than 75. "We're really streamlining the process and making the directors more responsible for directing the show," Frye said. "You can still have choreographers or music directors or costumers, but they aren't the directors like in the past." Frye said the change helped cut the size of the weekly meetings with all club directors down to 35 to 40 people, instead of over 100, making effective communication easier. "Because we do regular meetings with the directors, we were starting to get a little unwieldy with it because we would have eight or 10, sometimes 12, directors per show (under the old rules)," Frye said. "That's the 'too many cooks in the kitchen' approach to things." Men's social club TNT, women's social club Zeta Rho and friends won the 2015 Spring Sing sweepstakes trophy for their show, "Charlie and the Chocolate Tragedy." Club director junior Kyle Dingus said he felt the changes helped their show and the entire production overall. "Cutting down to two (directors) was really helpful," Dingus said. "Less people means an easier time getting along. Each person had their field of expertise, and we let each other stay in our respective lanes. Having less people made it a bigger workload on us, but overall I'd say it was a good move for the future of Spring Sing. There's more team chemistry when there's less of a team." Senior Harlee Stutesman offered a unique perspective after directing TNT, Zeta Rho and friends in 2014 under the old mles and again in 2016 under the new rules. Stutesman echoed Dingus' feelings and said she felt the change was necessary after seeing how things worked piior to the director cap. "Having a larger number of directors was great during our prep semester (in the fall)," Stutesman said. "We always had eight brains contributing ideas and playing off of each other, which made the creative process flow really well, but I do think fewer directors would have been beneficial during our more active semester (in the spring). The new rules allow a core group to be in charge of the show but give them the ability to delegate tasks to others with specific skills. All things considered, I think this is a change that needed to be made." Soplwmon• LCIIL'son P1tt.s, pluyiny A119us/u.s G/oop, is s1irrou1Hled by evil ginyerbreod men durinq ./er:( 11 Xiyhl (~{Spring Siny u·eek 011 }vfurch 30. 2015. Th<' show.feu/urecl an urmy ofOompa Loo1111ws who had lo reeluim the1rfac/oryfrom the Cl'il C'harli<' Bul'kel. I Photo /Jy Amandu Floyd Sophomore Knris Elliot and scnzor Benjmmn Stewart star in Delta Nu's '"The Sun Francisco Beal" un ~/\larch :Jo. 2015. The show won first place i11 the categories of music and staging. I Photo by Ama11da Floyd S PH I :'\ (; SI :'\ (; H
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