In true Brandeis fashion, Manginah's spring show stuck to campus time, starting 10 minutes late while the crowd piled into the Golding auditorium.Playing off the infamous mispronunciation "man-JY-nah," Manginah's spring theme was the "Manginah Monologues," which began with an opening monologue by Louis Polisson '12. "We were worried about Manginah," he told the audience, and then the group proceeded to explain the different names of manginahs around Brandeis campus-jingling Jews, harmonizing chasids and even "coochie snorchers."

The show kicked off with "Kama Od Efshar," with soloist and musical director Harrison Bannett '11 promising "I love you/Even if you don't deserve it." Living up to his tenor part, he hit some serious high notes as he managed both to stay in key and to win over the audience.

From there, Jaclyn Frankel '11 took over with "Yonatan Shapira," a song about a girl finding the perfect boy in Jonathan Shapira despite her mother's advice. Staying with the Jewish parent theme, Harrison Kessler '09 and Becky Fisher '10 took over with "Uf Gozal," describing the experience of watching their chicks fly away from the nest and causing the parents in the audience to sniffle.

While the mothers and fathers dried their eyes, Manginah slowed things down with "Erev Shel Shoshanim," a slow love song about a walk through a rose garden, before Adam Lapetina '12 and Hanna Rosenthal-Fuller '09 sped things up again with "Come Back," a song about being called back to Jerusalem in the east.

Taking a break from the music, the group began another monologue, "if my Manginah could .." Some of the categories included "If my Manginah could give musical advice" ("It's a little sharp!" "Hold that note!"), "if my Manginah could sing" ("Harder, better, faster, stronger!" "I kissed a girl and I liked it!"), and, of course, "if my Manginah was a Brandeis donor" ("Carl J. Shapiro!" "Um.").

With the audience still laughing, Bennett took the stage again with "Through Heaven's Eyes" from the soundtrack of the popular Dreamworks movie The Prince of Egypt. Following that, Max Fischlowitz-Roberts '10 performed "Beit Café," complete with choreography by the rest of the group. In the last song before the intermission, Fisher, Akiva Fishman '09 and Liz Imber '09 slowed down again with "Latet," which included a short rap breakdown by Fishman and some seriously high notes by Imber.

After a short intermission, Kessler opened the second act with a short monologue about being asked to shave his "Hair . rison," explaining that he refused to shave his Manginah. And then it was time for the usual spring concert mushiness: saying goodbye to the seniors. In true college fashion, the boys were a bit more humorous than the girls-in his farewell speech to Fishman, Fischlowitz-Roberts lamented his leaving with, "You really brought up our average height," while Bannett recalled joining Manginah in his goodbye speech to Kessler: "When I got into Manginah and there was already a Harrison, I said, 'Oh, crap.'" On the girls' side, Fisher and Frankel said goodbye to seniors Imber and Rosenthal-Fuller with considerably more emotion: "You're amazing," Frankel gushed to Rosenthal-Fuller, while Fisher hugged Imber before saying, "I feel so blessed to have known you."

The seniors sang their final songs, blowing the audience away one more time. Fishman hit some impressive low notes in "Shir B'Iparon," while Kessler went ridiculously high in "Happy Ending" with Jen Levy '12 and Fisher. Rosenthal-Fuller and Frankel brought tears to the audience's eyes with the emotional "Ha Masah" while Imber and Lapetina broke out their inner reggae stars with "Jerusalem."

Wrapping up the concert with their "flagship" song "Amen," the group called up all the alumni in the audience for the final rousing number. The show was a great success, and even if we still can't pronounce Manginah, we certainly know what it could say if it could talk: L'chaim!