School's 'Let It Go' Snow Day Announcement Goes Viral
Head of School Matt Glendinning captured his student's attention
— -- Thousands of students across the Northeast are enjoying a snow day today but only a handful of them received the news in the most unique way possible -- a viral YouTube video by their own principal.
Students at Moses Brown School in Providence, Rhode Island, watched as their head of school, Matt Glendinning, danced and lip-synched to a parody of “Let It Go,” the hit song from the animated Disney movie, “Frozen.”
“We could make you come to school but that would just be mean,” Glendinning, wearing a matching set of striped gloves, scarf and hat, sings in the video, posted Monday.
"The plows are running but still traffic starts to slide…Don’t come to school just stay inside,” he sings. "Today the snow has set you free ... you can stay at home.”
“School is closed .. school is closed .. because it snowed so much last night,” Glendinning, head of the school since 1999, continues in the four-minute video.
The director of communications and community engagement for the independent, Quaker day school told the local NPR station that he came up with the idea after seeing other videos and thinking the school could “crush that.”
“I’ve seen a couple of funny principal snow day closings and I thought we could really crush that,” As Olenn told WBUR’s The Artery. “Of course, with two little girls, I’ve heard ‘Let It Go’ from ‘Frozen’ more than a couple times.”
Olenn told the station he wrote the parody in 15 minutes and recorded it with Glendinning in advance so they would have it ready to roll when a storm hit.
“We’ve been shooting for probably a week, week and a half,” Olenn said, adding that they shot the video’s final scenes last Friday.
Glendinning, who could not be reached for comment today, may be the star of the video but it is not, in fact, his voice behind the song’s funny lyrics.
The voice is instead that of Moses Brown’s choral director, Justin Peters, Olenn told WBUR.