Get out your dictionaries! The Tony® Award winning musical comedy, THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE, hits the stage at Tartan Theatre beginning January 3, 2014.
"Each production that we have brought to the Tartan Theatre stage has been unique, and SPELLING BEE is no exception." said Ryan DeLaCroix, Tartan Theatre’s Director. "Set in a school gymnasium, SPELLING BEE takes a hilarious and heartwarming look at the pressures of growing up through the eyes of quirky yet lovable characters competing for the title of spelling bee champ. Tartan Theatre always puts a unique twist on shows, and with SPELLING BEE the audience will be seated right in the middle of the action onstage enjoying dinner while the action is going on around them.”
THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE is a hip musical comedy which follows six young people in the throes of puberty, who are overseen by grown-ups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves, as they learn that winning isn't everything and that losing doesn't necessarily make you a loser. At each performance, four audience volunteers are selected and invited on stage to participate in the Bee, making each performance unique. THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE is recommended for theatergoers 13 and over.
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Created, workshopped and developed by the Barrington Stage Company in western Massachusetts in the winter of 2004 and presented that summer, THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE opened Off-Broadway at Second Stage Theatre where it was an instant hit, prompting it to move to Broadway's Circle-in-the-Square Theater. Nominated for six Tony® Awards, including Best Musical, it took home two Tony® Awards in 2005 for Best Book of a Musical and Best Featured Actor in a Musical.
The cast of THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE features seniors Gabe Bergstrom (Leaf Coneybear), Ryan Gilman (William Barfée), Jake Mierva (Mitch Mahoney), Nadia Sandstrom (Logainne Schwartzandgrubenniere) and Erin Wintheiser (Olive Ostrovsky). The rest of the cast includes juniors Ana Ellis (Marcy Park), Sean Gulbranson (Vice Principal Doug Panch), Taylor Hafner (Rona Lisa Peretti), and sophomore Vincent Vang (Chip Tolentino).
