The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee With James Mango at the Fine Arts Association
| The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee | |
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 Original Cast Recording | |
| Music | William Finn |
| Lyrics | William Finn |
| Book | Rachel Sheinkin |
| Ground | C-R-E-P-U-Due south-C-U-Fifty-E by Rebecca Feldman |
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The 25th Almanac Putnam Canton Spelling Bee is a musical comedy with music and lyrics by William Finn, a book past Rachel Sheinkin, conceived by Rebecca Feldman with additional cloth past Jay Reiss. The show centers on a fictional spelling bee set in a geographically ambiguous Putnam Valley Center Schoolhouse. Six quirky adolescents compete in the Bee, run by iii equally quirky grown-ups.
The 2005 Broadway production, directed past James Lapine and produced by David Stone, James Fifty. Nederlander, Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo, Barrington Phase Company and 2nd Stage Theater, earned adept reviews and box-part success and was nominated for half dozen Tony Awards, winning two, including Best Book. The show has spawned various other productions in the United States, and other countries.
An unusual aspect of the show is that four existent audience members are invited on stage to compete in the spelling bee alongside the half dozen young characters. During the 2005 Tony Awards, former presidential candidate Al Sharpton competed. Another agreeable aspect of the show is that the official pronouncer, ordinarily an improv comedian, provides ridiculous usage-in-a-judgement examples when asked to use words in a sentence. At some shows, adult-but audiences (over age 16) are invited for "Parent-Instructor Conferences" also known equally "adult night at the Bee". These performances are brindled with sexual references and profanity inspired by R-rated advertizing-libs made during rehearsals.
The Broadway bandage album was released on May 31, 2005, and is bachelor from Ghostlight Records, an imprint of Sh-Grand-Boom Records. The original Broadway bandage recording was nominated for a Grammy Award.
In Apr 2021, a Disney moving-picture show accommodation was announced to be in the works.
Background and original productions [edit]
The musical was based upon C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-East, an original improvisational play created by Rebecca Feldman and performed by The Farm, a New-York-based improvisational comedy troupe. Sarah Saltzberg, Wendy Wasserstein'due south weekend nanny, was in the original production, and Wasserstein recommended that Finn see the bear witness. Finn brought Rachel Sheinkin on board, and they worked together with Feldman to transform "C-R-E-P-U-Due south-C-U-50-East" into a scripted full-length musical.
Spelling Bee was workshopped and developed at the Barrington Stage Visitor (BSC), Massachusetts, where Julianne Boyd is the Creative Director, in ii different stages. In Feb 2004, a workshop was done in which a showtime act and parts of a 2d human activity were created – this stage of the procedure was directed past Michael Barakiva and Feldman. The script was fleshed out and the show was given a fuller production in July 2004, directed by Feldman and Michael Unger.[1] [2] Dan Knechtges choreographed the workshop, summer productions, and the Broadway production. Dana Harrel produced both productions as the Producer of Stage II at BSC. Several bandage members, Dan Fogler, Jay Reiss, and Sarah Saltzberg remained from C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-Fifty-Due east. Robb Sapp (later replaced by Jose Llana when Sapp moved on to Wicked), Dashiell Eaves (replaced by Derrick Baskin), Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Celia Keenan-Bolger (joined as Olive Ostrovsky in the summer), Lisa Howard, and Deborah S. Craig were added to the bandage, and a full script was created.
The musical opened Off-Broadway at the Second Stage Theatre on January xi, 2005 in previews, officially on February seven, 2005, and closed on March 20, 2005.[3] [2] The production won several awards, among them the 2005 Lucille Lortel Awards, Outstanding Musical and 2005 Drama Desk-bound Awards, Outstanding Ensemble Performance.[4]
Spelling Bee premiered on Broadway at the Circumvolve in the Foursquare Theatre on April 15, 2005 and closed on January 20, 2008 after 1,136 performances and 21 previews.[v] The managing director was James Lapine and the choreographer Dan Knechtges. The evidence won Tony Awards for Best Book (Rachel Sheinkin) and Best Featured Actor (Dan Fogler).
Subsequent productions [edit]
The showtime production outside the United states of america was at the Melbourne Theatre Company in Melbourne, Australia, from January 18, 2006 to February 25 at the Playhouse, Arts Eye Melbourne. Information technology starred Marina Prior as Ms. Peretti, David Campbell as Chip, and Magda Szubanski as Barfée.[half dozen] The production, which won the 2006 Helpmann Laurels for Best Musical, was then presented past the Sydney Theatre Visitor at the Sydney Theatre in 2007. It again starred Prior and Szubanski, now joined by Lisa McCune as Olive. The Sydney season opened on June 11, 2007 and closed in August 2007.[7]
The musical was produced in San Francisco, California, at the Mail service Street Theatre opening on March one, 2006 and closing on September iii, 2006.[eight] In Chicago the run began on April 11, 2006 at the Drury Lane Theatre, Water Tower Place, closing on March 25, 2007. The product was directed past James Lapine.[nine] [10] In Boston it opened at the Wilbur Theatre on September 26, 2006 and closed December 31, 2006. The majority of the San Francisco cast moved to the Boston product.[11] [12]
The Equity U.South. National Tour began in Baltimore, Maryland at the Hippodrome Theatre on September 19, 2006 going through May 2007, visiting over xxx cities across the U.S.[13] From May 24 to June 17, 2007, the original Broadway cast reunited for a limited four-week run at the Wadsworth Theater in Los Angeles.[14] The musical returned to Barrington Stage Company, where it originated, in 2008, and ran from June xi to July 12, 2008.[15] The product included several cast members from the touring visitor and was a co-production with Northward Shore Theatre. The commencement operation in-the-round was at the North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, Massachusetts from August 12–31, 2008.[sixteen]
In 2007, the kickoff translated production opened in Seoul, South korea, with all of the music and dialogue in Korean, but the words were spelled in English. In September 2008, a High german-linguistic communication adaptation premiered as Der 25 Pattenser Buchstabierwettbewerb.[17]
The 2008–2009 Non-Equity U.S. National Tour premiered on October 11, 2008 at the Union Colony Civic Centre in Greeley, Colorado, with an official opening in Fort Collins, Colorado on October 14.[eighteen]
The Mason Street Warehouse, Saugatuck Center for the Arts, Saugatuck, Michigan, opened on August 14 and ran through August 31, 2009,[19] directed by Kurt Stamm.[xx]
The musical made its Britain premiere at the Donmar Warehouse, London, beginning previews on February 11, 2011. It officially opened on February 21, and airtight on April 2. The director was Jamie Lloyd.[21]
Spelling Bee made its Scandinavian debut in September 2012 in Oslo, Norway.
Spelling Bee was performed for the first time in State of israel, with Hebrew subtitles in Oct 2012, at the AACI J-Boondocks Playhouse theater in Jerusalem.[22] [23] Spelling Bee had an additional serial of performances in September, 2017 in Israel by the organisation The Stage, at the Beit Yad leBanim theatre in Tel Aviv.[24] [25]
Plot [edit]
Human activity 1 [edit]
The spellers are introduced every bit they enter and they sing almost their anticipation of the bee ("The Xx-5th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee"). Moderator Rona Lisa Peretti speaks privately to Olive Ostrovsky, who has non yet paid the entrance fee. She and so introduces the official word pronouncer, Douglas Panch, and comfort counselor, Mitch Mahoney. Mahoney leads the spellers in the Pledge of Allegiance and Panch explains the rules ("The Spelling Rules / My Favorite Moment of the Bee 1").
The spelling bee begins. Leaf Coneybear's discussion is capybara, which he has no idea how to spell, but he ends upward spelling information technology correctly while in a trance. Olive is shown to be shy and reserved, a result of her largely absent-minded parents. She has come to love spelling past reading the dictionary in her home ("My Friend, the Lexicon"). When William Barfée is called to spell for the showtime time, Rona describes his unusual technique – he spells the word out on the ground with his human foot to get a visual before speaking information technology. After a few spellers get easy words, the others rant about how the element of luck makes the bee unfair ("Pandemonium"). Logainne then gets "Cystitis", and is shown studying with her two often-arguing fathers in a flashback. When Leaf is called the second time, he reminisces about how his family calls him "dumb" ("I'yard Not That Smart").
Barfée is called, and sings about his technique ("Magic Foot"). When Marcy is chosen once again, she correctly spells "qaimaqam", proving herself to be the best speller. She is somewhat injure when Rona claims that she is "all business". Chip Tolentino is called next, only he is reluctant to take his turn because he has an erection. Under threat of disqualification, he misspells his word and Mitch hauls him off ("Pandemonium (Reprise) / My Favorite Moment of the Bee ii").
At this point, the last audience speller is eliminated. Mitch sings a special serenade to this audience fellow member for making it this far ("Prayer of the Comfort Counselor").
Act 2 [edit]
Chip passes through the audience selling snacks, the penalty for existence the starting time eliminated. He explains to the audience why he lost ("My Unfortunate Erection (Chip'southward Lament)"). Barfée taunts Chip, who throws a bag of peanut Grand&M's at him. Barfée is allergic to peanuts, so Olive picks them upwardly for him. Olive and Barfée antipodal earlier the second one-half of the bee begins, and Barfée begins to develop a vanquish on Olive.
Logainne describes her ii overbearing fathers and the stress that they put on her ("Woe is Me"). In a montage sequence, the bee is shown progressing through many rounds, ending with Leaf'southward emptying. He walks away with his head held loftier, having proven to himself that he is smarter than his family gave him credit for ("I'm Non that Smart (Reprise)").
Marcy reveals more than about her stressful life ("I Speak Six Languages"). She is given the word camouflage, to which she sighs, "Dear Jesus, tin't you lot come up up with a harder word than that?" Jesus so appears to her and teaches her that she is in control of her own life. Resolved to do what she wants rather than what is expected of her, she intentionally misspells the word and exits excitedly ("Jesus / Pandemonium (Reprise #two)").
Olive gets a telephone call from her male parent, who she has been hoping would make it. Panch attempts to disallow her from answering the phone, but she persuades Rona to take the phone call for her. Logainne and then begins an advertizing-libbed bluster about the bee, her fathers, and current political events. Panch lashes out at Logainne and is escorted offstage by Rona and Mitch. One of Logainne's fathers jumps onstage to calm Logainne down and pours some of his soda on the floor to make Barfée'due south foot stick and thus disrupt his technique.
With Panch calmed downwards, Olive is called to spell. She imagines her parents being in that location and giving her the honey that she always has wanted and yearned for ("The I Beloved You Vocal"). Barfée is called to spell adjacent, and spells his word correctly despite the soda causing his foot to stick. Logainne misspells her next give-and-take and ("Woe is Me (Reprise)") Rona is excited that information technology has come down to the terminal 2 ("My Favorite Moment of the Bee three").
The finals are shown through another montage ("2nd"), and Olive and Barfée continue to grow closer. Eventually, Olive misspells a word, giving Barfée a chance to win. He is torn betwixt winning and letting Olive win, but with Olive's encouragement, he spells his word correctly. Panch awards Barfée the trophy and two hundred dollar prize, and in a surprise deed of charity, pays Olive's entrance fee, calling it a "runner-upward prize." Olive congratulates Barfée, and each character reads a judgement or two nigh what they exercise in the years and decades afterwards the principal activeness of the play ends ("Finale").
Musical numbers [edit]
(Songs are not listed in the Playbill since, with audience members on stage, the timing of the "Goodbye" songs varies with each evidence and because it could spoil who wins the bee.)
Act 1 (in some shows) [edit]
- "The Twenty-5th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" – Chip, Rona, Leafage, Logainne, Barfée, Marcy, Olive
- "The Spelling Rules" ‡ – Panch, Spellers, Rona, Mitch
- "My Favorite Moment of the Bee" ‡ – Rona
- "My Friend, the Dictionary" – Olive, Chip, Leaf, Logainne, Rona, Visitor
- "The First Good day" – Visitor
- "Pandemonium" – Chip, Olive, Logainne, Leaf, Barfée, Marcy, Mitch
- "I'm Not That Smart" – Leafage
- "The Second Cheerio" – Visitor
- "Magic Foot" – Barfée, Company
- "Pandemonium (Reprise)" ‡ – Mitch, Company
- "My Favorite Moment of the Bee (Reprise)" ‡ – Rona
- "Prayer of the Comfort Counselor" – Mitch, Company
Act ii (in some shows) [edit]
- "My Unfortunate Erection/Distraction (Chip's Complaining)" – Chip
- "Woe is Me" – Logainne, Carl, Dan, and Company
- "Spelling Montage" – Panch, Spellers
- "I'm Not That Smart (Reprise)" – Leafage
- "I Speak Half dozen Languages" – Marcy, Females
- "Jesus" – Marcy, Females
- "The I Love You Song" – Olive, Olive'southward Mom, Olive's Dad
- "Woe is Me (Reprise)" – Logainne, Mitch
- "My Favorite Moment of the Bee (Reprise ii)" ‡ – Rona
- "Second" ‡ – Barfée, Olive, Company
- "Second (Role i)" – Barfée, Olive, Company
- "Weltanschauung" – Barfée, Visitor
- "Barfée and Olive Pas de Deux" – Company
- "2nd (Function 2)" – Barfée, Olive, Company
- "The Champion" – Rona, Company
- "Finale" – Company
- "The Terminal Goodbye" – Company
‡ Combined into 1 track on the cast album
In that location is a song on the cast anthology, called "Why Nosotros Like Spelling". This song is sung by all the spellers, but is not in the Broadway product or in the licensed productions.
A song entitled "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Massacres the 12 Days of Christmas" was released online equally a vacation track sung past the cast. It reveals several dissimilar instances of events within the lives of the characters, such as Coneybear being given 2 right socks named "Phil", Olive discussing various places her dad forgets her at, Barfée ruling his body of water anemone circus from his basement, Panch's urine laced with Ritalin, Rona'southward almost recent boyfriend breaking up with her, Mitch ending upwards and making calls from prison, Schwarzy explaining her dads giving her stomach ulcers, Fleck playing with his lilliputian league baseball game team, and Marcy receiving the 7th book of Moses (which Schwarzy repeatedly objects to, claiming there's only 5) while fighting with her understudy who was taking her place because "Deborah [Due south. Craig, the regular Marcy actress] injure her articulatio genus".
Characters [edit]
Major characters [edit]
- Rona Lisa Peretti: The number-one realtor in Putnam County, a erstwhile Putnam Canton Spelling Bee Champion herself, and returning moderator. She is a sweetness woman who loves children, but she can be very stern when information technology comes to dealing with Vice Principal Panch, who has feelings for her that she nearly likely does not render. It is implied that she sees much of herself in Olive Ostrovsky. Her favorite moment of the Bee is in the minutes before it starts, when all the children are filled with the joy of contest, before they begin to resent each other. She later declares that she likes how anybody has an equal chance of winning, citing every bit an case that concluding year's winner can be this year's loser and vice versa. Another favorite moment is when the final winners become head to head for the top spot because it is then suspenseful and filled with hope. Ms. Peretti herself won the Third Almanac Putnam County Spelling Bee by spelling "syzygy", which she recounts at the very commencement of the opening number.
- Vice Principal Douglas Panch: Later 5 years' absence from the Bee, Panch returns as judge. There was an "incident" at the Twentieth Annual Bee, only he claims to be in "a better identify" now (or then we think), thanks to a high-fiber diet and Jungian assay. He is infatuated with Rona Lisa Peretti, merely she does not return his affections.
- Mitch Mahoney: The Official Comfort Counselor. An ex-convict, Mitch is performing his customs service with the Bee, and hands out juice boxes to losing students.
- Olive Ostrovsky: A immature newcomer to competitive spelling. Her mother is in an ashram in Republic of india, and her father is working tardily, as usual, but he is trying to come old during the bee. She fabricated friends with her lexicon at a very immature historic period, helping her to make it to the competition.
- William Morris Barfée: A Putnam County Spelling Bee finalist last year, he was eliminated because of an allergic reaction to peanuts. His famous "Magic Foot" method of spelling has boosted him to spelling glory, even though he simply has 1 working nostril and a touchy personality. He has an often-mispronounced last name: it is Bar-FAY, not BARF-ee ("in that location's an accent aigu", he explains with some hostility). He develops a shell on Olive. At the terminate of the play he wins the spelling bee.
- Logainne "Schwarzy" SchwartzandGrubenierre: Logainne is the youngest and most politically aware speller, often making comments about current political figures, with 2 overbearing gay fathers pushing her to win at any cost. She is somewhat of a bang-up freak, speaks with a lisp, and knows she will return to the bee next year.
- Marcy Park: A recent transfer from Virginia, Marcy placed ninth in last year's nationals. She speaks vi languages, is a member of all-American hockey, a championship rugby player, plays Chopin and Mozart on multiple instruments, sleeps only three hours a night, hides in the bathroom cabinet, and is getting very tired of always winning. She is a total over-achiever, and attends a Catholic schoolhouse called "Our Lady of Intermittent Sorrows". She is also not allowed to cry.
- Foliage Coneybear: A homeschooler and the 2d runner-up in his district, Leaf gets into the competition on a distraction: the winner and showtime runner-up had to go to the winner'due south Bat Mitzvah. Leaf comes from a big family of former hippies and makes his ain apparel. He spells words correctly while in a trance. In his song, "I'chiliad Not That Smart", he sings that his family unit thinks he is "not that smart", but he insinuates that he is just easily distracted. Almost of the words that he is assigned are South American rodents with agreeable names.
- Charlito "Chip" Tolentino ("Tripp Barrington" in the original workshop, "Isaac 'Chip' Berkowitz" in the Chicago production): A Boy Scout and champion of the Xx-Fourth Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, he returns to defend his championship. Relatively social and athletic, every bit he plays little league, Fleck expects things to come hands only he finds puberty hit at an inopportune moment.
- Iii or iv spellers from the audience: Audience members are encouraged to sign upwardly to participate earlier the prove, and several are chosen to spell words on phase. In touring productions, local celebrities are sometimes selected.
Minor characters [edit]
(All can be doubled by the actors playing the major characters.)
- Carl Grubenierre: One of SchwartzandGrubenierre's fathers; he has fix his heart on his little daughter winning the Bee, no matter what he has to do, including sabotaging William's foot. Ordinarily played past the actor who plays Leaf.
- Dan Schwartz: SchwartzandGrubenierre's other father; he is more laid back and doting than Carl but is all the same intent on his girl winning the Bee. Usually played by the thespian who plays Mitch.
- Leafage's Dad: Doubtful and finds his son annoying and unintelligent. Unremarkably played past the actor who plays Barfée.
- Leaf'southward Mom: Overprotective and doubtful of her son's abilities to stand upward to the competition. Unremarkably played by the actor who plays Logainne.
- Foliage's Siblings: Not very confident of Leaf'south abilities. Commonly played past the remaining spellers (both bandage and the volunteer audience spellers).
- Olive's Mom and Dad: She is in India, he is working late, but they announced in Olive'due south imagination to encourage her and tell her they beloved her. Usually played by the actors who play Miss Peretti and Mitch.
- Jesus Christ: Appears to Marcy in a moment of crisis. Usually played by the actor who plays Chip.
Casting history [edit]
The chief casts of notable productions of The 20-Fifth Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
| Role | Off-Broadway & Broadway 2005 | Melbourne 2006 | San Francisco 2006 | London 2011 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rona Lisa Peretti | Lisa Howard | Marina Prior | Betsy Wolfe | Katherine Kingsley |
| Douglas Panch | Jay Reiss | Tyler Coppin | Jim Cashman | Steve Pemberton |
| Mitch Mahoney | Derrick Baskin | Bert Labonte | James Monroe Iglehart | Ako Mitchell |
| Olive Ostrovsky | Celia Keenan-Bolger | Natalie O'Donnell | Jenni Barber | Hayley Gallivan |
| William Barfée | Dan Fogler | Magda Szubanski | Jared Gertner | David Fynn |
| Logainne SchwartzandGrubenierre | Sarah Saltzberg | Christen O'Leary | Sara Inbar | Iris Roberts |
| Marcy Park | Deborah South. Craig | Natalie Mendoza | Greta Lee | Maria Lawson |
| Leafage Coneybear | Jesse Tyler Ferguson | Tim Wright | Stanley Bahorek | Chris Carswell |
| Chip Tolentino | Jose Llana | David Campbell | Aaron J. Albano | Harry Hepple |
- Notable Broadway bandage replacements included Jennifer Simard every bit Rona, Barrett Foa, Rory O'Malley, and Stanley Bahorek as Leaf, Josh Gad as Barfée, and Mo Rocca and Darrell Hammond as Panch.[26]
Audition interaction and words used [edit]
- Audience interaction
About half an 60 minutes earlier the show begins, audition members in the antechamber are given the chance to sign up to participate in the bear witness every bit "spellers." The registration form asks for name, occupation, hobbies, description of clothing, spelling ability, and historic period range. Interviewers look for people with no acting experience, unique names, traits, and backgrounds. The audience participants are taken backstage prior to the bear witness and are shown where to stand when called from the audience and given teaching about what to practice when called upon to spell. They are asked to request a definition of each word and its usage in a sentence, and to attempt to spell each word rather than giving up. The last audience member to be eliminated is usually given an exceptionally difficult give-and-take they are certain to miss; regardless of the spelling the bandage reacts with incredulity at their "success," and the adjacent word is "belled" as incorrect before the attempt is completed. During the performance, the actors sitting adjacent to the audience participants periodically whisper hints about when to stand up, sit, movement in "tiresome motion," "freeze" or hang on because the seating platform unit is about to spin.
Ms. Peretti calls the spellers to the stage at the beginning of the show, and they are given badges to wear that say "Finalist." Equally the testify proceeds, each one is eliminated with successively more difficult words. The final audience participant to exist eliminated is serenaded by Mitch ("Prayer of the Condolement Counselor") on-phase. Mitch as well gives each eliminated finalist (both audition members and regular characters) a juice box and a hug.
Katharine Close, the 2006 winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, was invited to be a contestant at a performance of the prove. She was the concluding speller from the audience to exist eliminated and survived fourteen rounds.[27]
The musical treats the audience members as if they were the audience at the fictitious spelling bee. For case, the characters single out audience members as their "family unit" members. For example, Barfée periodically refers to an age-appropriate adult female near the stage equally "mom." Similarly, Fleck is distracted past an attractive female audition fellow member (or male in the adults-only version), contributing to a misspelling. He is the first contestant eliminated and is thus forced to sell snacks in the audience in the manner of the refreshment hawkers at a sports issue. Other characters oftentimes walk through the auditorium amidst the audience during the show, sometimes integrating the audience into the show and occasionally dropping the "quaternary wall".
- Words used
Examples of words spelled past characters in performances of Spelling Bee include Astrobleme, Cat, Dinosaur, Hasenpfeffer, Origami (Adult Bear witness), and Weltanschauung. Words spelled by the audition volunteers are oft unscripted and sometimes improvised past the cast to gently poke fun at the volunteer speller. Past examples include: Dystopia, Cenacle, Elephant, Hemidemisemiquaver, Homunculus, Cow, Jihad, Lysergic Acid Diethylamide, Castoreum and Didgeridoo spelt by Rolf Harris. Julie Andrews missed "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" when she was a guest speller on KIDS nighttime on Broadway, 2007.[28]
Critical response [edit]
Charles Isherwood, in his review of the Broadway product for The New York Times, wrote "Most crucially, the affectionate performances of the 6 actors burdened with the daunting challenge of inhabiting young souls accept not been stretched into grotesque shape by the move to a large theater... William Finn'due south score sounds plumper and more rewarding than it did Off Broadway. If it occasionally suggests a Saturday morning television receiver cartoon ready to music by Stephen Sondheim, that's not inappropriate. And Mr. Finn'south more contemplative songs provide a prissy sprinkling of sugar to complement the sass in Rachel Sheinkin's zinger-filled book... Mr. Lapine has sharpened all the musical's elements without betraying its highly-seasoned modesty." (NY Times Critics Pick)[29]
Film accommodation [edit]
In Apr 2021, Walt Disney Pictures announced plans to develop a film accommodation of the musical, to be produced past Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich through their Rideback banner, with Ryan Halprin as executive producer.[30]
Awards and nominations [edit]
Original Off-Broadway product [edit]
| Year | Award Anniversary | Category | Nominee | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Drama Desk-bound Laurels | Outstanding Volume of a Musical | Rachel Sheinkin | Won |
| Outstanding Ensemble Performance | Won | |||
| Outstanding Director of a Musical | James Lapine | Won | ||
| Lucille Lortel Honor | Outstanding Musical | Won | ||
| Outstanding Featured Actor | Dan Fogler | Won | ||
| Outstanding Director | James Lapine | Nominated | ||
| Outstanding Choreographer | Dan Knechtges | Nominated | ||
| Theatre World Laurels | Dan Fogler | Won | ||
| Celia Keenan-Bolger | Won | |||
Original Broadway production [edit]
| Twelvemonth | Award Ceremony | Category | Nominee | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Drama Desk-bound Award | Outstanding Musical | Nominated | |
| Outstanding Lyrics | William Finn | Nominated | ||
| Outstanding Music | Nominated | |||
| Tony Award | All-time Musical | Nominated | ||
| Best Book of a Musical | Rachel Sheinkin | Won | ||
| All-time Original Score | William Finn | Nominated | ||
| Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical | Dan Fogler | Won | ||
| Best Functioning by a Featured Actress in a Musical | Celia Keenan-Bolger | Nominated | ||
| Best Direction of a Musical | James Lapine | Nominated | ||
| 2006 | Grammy Award | Best Musical Theater Anthology | Nominated | |
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External links [edit]
- MusicalTalk Podcast discussing the Orlando production
- Cyberspace Broadway Database listing
- Lyrics to the songs
- Fogler and Saltzberg (original Broadway cast) interview, Downstage Center at American Theatre Fly.org
- William Finn (composer) interview – Downstage Heart at American Theatre Wing.org, December 2006
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- Listing at guidetomusicaltheatre.com
- The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at the Music Theatre International website
- The website for the Norwegian production of Spelling Bee
- The Norwegian product team's website
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_25th_Annual_Putnam_County_Spelling_Bee
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