The run dates incomplete
- Opened
- 2005
- Closed
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- Performances
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No performance count on this record. 2,834 of 13,459 productions are missing one, so a blank here means unrecorded, not a short run.
No closing date. 5,632 of 13,459 productions have none, and at this distance that means the ending was never recorded rather than that the run went on.
Who was in it24 named
Aaron J Albano
Stanley Bahorek
Barrett Foa
Jared Gertner
Darrell Hammond
Sara Inbar
Greta Lee
Mo Rocca
Lucia Spina
Jessica Snow Wilson
14 of these 24 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 10 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters9 roles recorded
Marina Prior Rona Lisa Peretti
Tyler Coppin Douglas Panch
Derrick Baskin Mitch Mahoney
Celia Keenan-Bolger Olive Ostrovsky
Magda Szubanski William Barfée
Christen O'Leary Logainne SchwartzandGrubenierre
Deborah S. Craig Marcy Park
Tim Wright Leaf Coneybear
Jose Llana Chip Tolentino
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- James Lapine
- Choreographer
- Dan Knechtges
- Orchestrations
- Mi
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a musical comedy with music and lyrics by William Finn, with a book written by Rachel Sheinkin, created by Rebecca Feldman with additional material by Jay Reiss. The show centers on a fictional spelling bee set in a geographically ambiguous Putnam Valley Middle School, some students being from various elementary schools. These six quirky adolescents compete in the Bee, run by three equally quirky grown-ups. The 2005 Broadway production, directed by James Lapine and produced by David Stone, James L. Nederlander, Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo, Barrington Stage Company and Second Stage Theater, earned good reviews and box-office success and was n…
The audience members who were brought up to succeed or fail at spelling made for great fun. Those who succeed joined the genuine cast members in the bleachers; those who failed would have the cast tauntingly sing “Goodbye! You were good, but not good enough!” The Book of Broadway Musical Debates Disputes and Peter Filichia Rowman Littlefi, p. 177
- 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. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 321
- See also APPLAUSE; THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 193
- 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) Theatre World 2011 12 Season V 68 Willis, p. 424
- We celebrated our 1000th show with a fun party and a cake. We also had a rocking closing night party at The Harmony View. The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 2007 To May 2008 Viagas Robert 4th Annual Ed, p. 414
- 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… The Playbill Broadway Yearbook Third Annual Edition Viagas Robert 3rd Annual Ed , p. 425
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at all.
- When it closed.
- No performance count.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.