Greek Sing 2026

 Monday was the beginning of Greek Week at Ohio Northern University. The kickoff for the week is a series of musical performances performed by each social fraternity and sorority. Everybody gets the same theme; this year was video games, and each fraternity and sorority gets an individual theme within that. My fraternity, SigEp, chose Wii Sports. Although technically, I chose Wii Sports as our theme as the Greek Week delegate and the one in charge of Greek Sing. 

As the only one with theatre experience, I was chosen as the only person to conceptualize, write the story, come up with song ideas, write lyrics, choreograph, cast and rehearse our performance. I had many ideas, including Bad Bunny in the halftime show, a boxing match and people playing real sports on the stage. In the end, the story ended up following a new member, or a Wii rookie, through his journey of joining the frat right before Greek Wii-k. We find that he is bad at every sport, and so he goes through a training montage of becoming good at sports.

Here is where I thought that the story was becoming too simple. Just a simple training montage was the whole story. So, as the story follows, Greek Wii-k starts, and mug tug is first, which we play against the Delts, this fraternity of mainly football guys, and they never lose mud tug. We inevitably lose, and the new member starts spiraling. We help support him, and the next sport that he has to show his skill in is kickball. After introducing the opposing team, the new member kicks the ball out of the park on his first try. He's got his mojo back and comes to the final event to win, boxing. In a fight scene that spans two songs, eventually he wins, and we all cheer.

After the month of intense rehearsal and the impossible feat of maintaining the attention of 30 frat guys for two entire hours a day, we performed. It felt like it was a part of me that we were showing to the audience. Hours of thought, planning and execution all came to a culmination. After all the performances, we won first place by the judges, as well as the people's choice awards from non-Greek voters.

I was on the verge of tears as they were saying the results, just as I am writing this now. I'm so proud of everyone who worked with me on the specifics of lyrics and unchoreographed bits when it got too overwhelming. I don't think we could have done it without the support and effort from all the brothers of Sigma Phi Epsilon.