The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Shows · The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Six quirky adolescent overachievers compete in a county spelling bee, each battling their own insecurities and family pressures as they spell their way through increasingly impossible words. Between rounds, we learn their poignant backstories — an absent father, helicopter parents, a crush on a fellow speller — revealing that growing up is the hardest word to spell.
- Opened
- 2005
- Performances
- Unknown
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Modern
Productions1 on Broadway
| 2005 | Original Theatre unknown. · James Lapine | 1,136 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 2 albums held
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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9 passages naming The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
With young-looking adults playing the high-school aged contestants at The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, it was a take on the universal theme of adolescence. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p321
See also APPLAUSE; THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p193
Conor Donovan (Privilege), Dan Fogler (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), Heather Goldenhersh (Doub), Carla Gugino (After the Fall), Jenn Harris (Modern Orthodox), Cheyenne Jackson (A// Shook Up), Celia Keenan-Bolger (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), Tyler Maynard (Altar Boyz) book:theatre-world-2011-12-season-v-68-willis#p424
We celebrated our 1000th show with a fun party and a cake. We also had a rocking closing night party at The Harmony View. book:the-playbill-broadway-yearbook-june-2007-to-may-2008-viagas-robert-4th-annual-ed#p414
Neat Gifts: Our prop master, Owen, is not only a master of the props but also of the culinary art of baking! For Josh Gad’s happy trails he baked a beautiful loaf of bread in the shape of a foot! It was truly a magic foot that tasted unbelievable. And for Coco (Lisa Yuen) he baked a heart shaped cake that alternated ch… book:the-playbill-broadway-yearbook-third-annual-edition-viagas-robert-3rd-annual-ed-#p425
Evolved from an improvisational play, Spelling Bee workshopped and premiered at the Barrington Stage Company. It moved to the Second Stage Theatre off-Broadway in 2005 and transferred to Broadway three months later. book:a-history-of-the-american-musical-theatre-no-business-like-nathaniel-hurwitz-tay#p292
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