How Glee Club Went Wrong Part Two: Division

(If you haven't read the previous post, please do so!)

As much as I hate to admit it now, I sincerely hoped that all of the drama would be behind us. Yes, we were in high school, but I hoped that we could be mature enough to work out something that would be able to work. Of course, this was apparently way too much to be asking of high schoolers.

Auditions this time were much easier. Our former president had choreographed a verse to the Glee version of GaGa's "Bad Romance" (a personal favorite of mine) and we were to just dance. Singing came at a different time -- which didn't totally make sense to me.  But then again, I wasn't in charge. Auditions came and went, and our two leaders decided to do something that I knew would only lead to more problems.

There would be a larger group around 20 people which was more of a beginner club, and a smaller, elite group of 12. The larger group took up a majority of rehearsal, which was about two hours for them, and then another hour for us in the smaller group to work. The sad part about this new system was that there were problems right from the get go.

The leader of the larger group (let's call her BL. Saves time.) was a new girl who had been brought in at the last minute to help us with our Winter Concert performance. She was friendly enough and had a ton of show choir experience. I knew in the long run this would truly benefit us, but I still had misgivings about dividing the group into what were perceived as a better and worse group.

Our president from last semester (SL to save time,) meanwhile, took on the task of leading the smaller group. We had a lot of fun mostly working on Bad Romance when we started, but the smaller time slot was definitely taking its toll on our performing. We were good, but deep down I thought we could be so much better.

Tensions and rumors began, one of which involved me going to our faculty sponsor and telling him how awful we were. (Let me be clear that I did no such thing.) On Valentine's Day, we performed for the school during lunch, and the only performance I felt was worth actually watching was our small group's rendition of Bad Romance, and even that needed some extra polishing before I would've been too proud of it.

While I don't really know the details of exactly what happened, I knew there was a rift between the two leaders that occured during the Spring concert that caused the groups to split off permanently. Spring break came along, and suddenly it seemed like the two leaders were fighting for our attention. Apparently more rumors began, this time saying that SL had quit the club because her boyfriend got her pregnant. It was rude, it was vicious, and I decided at that point that I would support the smaller group from then on.

Unfortunately, we couldn't garner enough support, and ultimately we were forced to disband while the larger group continued to work.