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Rachel Sheinkin

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Rachel Sheinkin is an American librettist who won the Tony Award for the book of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (2005).

Also credited on1 work

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

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In the literature2 passages

  • Book writer Rachel Sheinkin didn’t have to concern herself with finding the right structure. She’d inherited it from the template that was set at the first nationwide spelling bee held in Washington, D.C., in 1925. Since then, every word has been announced, defined, and used in a sentence before the speller tackles it.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
  • Book: Rachel Sheinkin, conceived by Rebecca Feldman, with additional material by Jay Reissebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt

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  • What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
  • Any staging. This name appears in no production cast list we hold — 1,877 of 7,139 people are in that position, most of them writers, composers and designers rather than performers.
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