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Issue date: 2/15/08 Section: Arts and Leisure

Media Credit: Charlotte Hammond MadAve rehearses their song and dance routines on campus after placing second in the Mid-Atlantic quarterfinals of the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella at Syracuse University last Saturday.

36 Madison Avenue showed they really are "Real Good Men." Drew University's all-male a cappella placed second at the Mid-Atlantic quarterfinals of the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella at Syracuse University, advancing to the regional semifinals for the second year.

"We're really pumped about that," MadAve President Ross Michaels ('08) said. "We're considered automatically one of the top groups of the nation." The State University of New York at Buffalo placed first.

Michaels said judges evaluate groups on tone, presentation and choreography. "They gave us pointers [and] things we shouldn't do. It was ego-boosting, yet helpful at the same time," Michaels said.

Michaels feels the group's diversity contributes to the variety they bring to each performance.

"As a group, [we] decided on three songs that had the strongest arrangements, strong solos and we could put in some great choreography," Michaels said.

The group increased their number of weekly rehearsals from three to four, Graig Churchill ('10) said.

They chose Rufus Wainwright's "Instant Pleasure," Citizen Cope's "Son's Gonna Rise" and the Phil Collins medley of "Strangers Like Me" and "Take Me Home."

Michaels hopes to see his fellow students at the semifinals on April 5 at Rutgers University in New Brunswick.

"We're representing the school on a national level," he said. "So we need all the support we can get."

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