Tuesday, February 24, 2015

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a 2005 Tony Award-winning play. It is a one-act musical comedy conceived by Rebecca Feldman, with music and lyrics by William Finn and book by Rachel Sheinkin.
The show centers around a fictional spelling bee set in a middle school where six young people in the throes of puberty, overseen by three quirky grown-ups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves, learn that winning isn't everything and that losing doesn't necessarily make you a loser. ("UMass Theater." UMass Amherst: Department of Theater. Web. 25 Feb. 2015. <http://www.umass.edu/theater/beestudyguide.php>.)
In the play, there is a spelling bee set at Putnam County Middle school. The spelling bee is run by the three adults, and the six students are competing in the spelling bee. One thing that is different about this play is that four people from the audience are invited to compete in the spelling bee.

            The play has won many awards and been performed in many countries around the world, including Australia, England, Israel, South Korea, Mexico and Hong Kong.

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