Shows · The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee · Production, 2005
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, 2005
Opened 2005
Closed January 20, 2008
1,136 performances
Original
Broadway
Of the productions that opened in the 2000s, this had the 17th longest run.
Who was in it29 named
Aaron J Albano
Stanley Bahorek
Barrett Foa
Jared Gertner
Darrell Hammond
Sara Inbar
Greta Lee
Mo Rocca
Lucia Spina
Jessica Snow Wilson
Marina Prior as Rona Lisa Peretti
Tyler Coppin as Douglas Panch
Magda Szubanski as William Barfée
Christen O'Leary as Logainne SchwartzandGrubenierre
Tim Wright as Leaf Coneybear
Creative team
- Director
- James Lapine
- Choreographer
- Dan Knechtges
- Orchestrations
- Mi
Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination
Recordings 2 released while this run was on
Around this production
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a musical comedy with music and lyrics by William Finn, with a book written by Rachel Sheinkin, created by Rebecca Feldman with additional material by Jay Reiss. The show centers on a fictional spelling bee set in a geographically ambiguous Putnam Valley Middle School, some students being from various elementary schools. These six quirky adolescents compete in the Bee, run by three equally quirky grown-ups. The 2005 Broadway production, directed by James Lapine and produced by David Stone, James L. Nederlander, Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo, Barrington Stage Company and Second Stage Theater, earned good reviews and box-office success and was n…
The audience members who were brought up to succeed or fail at spelling made for great fun. Those who succeed joined the genuine cast members in the bleachers; those who failed would have the cast tauntingly sing “Goodbye! You were good, but not good enough!” The Book of Broadway Musical Debates Disputes and Peter Filichia Rowman Littlefi, p. 177
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