“Auditions can be competitive … but all of the groups are so different in their niche that everyone gets to be a part of the group that they feel like they most fit into,” Greenawalt explained. And I’ve really enjoyed that,” he says.Īllegra Greenawalt (C ’23), president of Dischord-which focuses on pop and R&B a cappella-agreed that much like with the diversity of the groups at Barden, everyone at Penn can also find a group where they fit in. “A cappella for me was not about the cutthroat … much more of a family, because we’re a smaller group and a lot closer. Nonetheless, Soloway feels that he eventually found a home in the Shabbatones, just like how the Barden Bellas became a family for Beca in the film. They want you to be a social fit as well as a musical fit, and you go through several rounds of auditions.” And it’s kind of a cutthroat process-that’s a parallel with the movie,” Soloway said. “I ended up auditioning not just for, but for a bunch of a cappella groups.
A capella groups like pitchperfect series#
A decade since the first film and with a new Pitch Perfect spinoff TV series releasing on Peacock, Street asked some of Penn’s a cappella community about their thoughts on the film itself, its legacy, and how similar the a cappella scene it portrays is to ours here at Penn. However, there are bound to be some mistakes, misconceptions, and exaggerations about college a cappella in the film.
The romance, drama, and incredible performances introduced all of us to this wild atmosphere for the first time. The film follows Beca (Anna Kendrick), a first year at Barden College in Atlanta and aspiring DJ, who gets caught up in the vibrant, dramatic, and high–stakes world of collegiate a cappella. It’s been ten years since Pitch Perfect hit theaters for the first time, and it has quickly evolved into a sleeper hit. “I think one of the reasons that it was so successful is that there’s nothing like college a cappella … and there’s just something about it that draws people into it.” “I honestly think Pitch Perfect did wonders for college a cappella,” Victoria Conroy (C ’24), music director of the pop/rock a cappella group Off The Beat, told Street.
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