The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a comedy musical written by Rebecca Feldman and music by William Finn. This show is based on the American academic competition "Spelling Bee". It is a competition in which contestants are asked to spell a broad selection of words, usually with the varying degree of difficulty. In this show, the words that the spellers have to spell are extremely hard, even harder than the SAT words, which makes this show really funny. Spellers may ask a definition of the word or use in a sentence or the origin of the word. The main characters are Olive, Marcy, Leaf, William, Logainne, Chip as the spellers. And for the announcers and adult characters, there are Rona, Panch, Mitch (Mitch is played as Mitchell in Cheshire Academy production, as our school has a lot of women players). Every character has distinct characteristic; such as, Olive is very shy and doesn't speak out loud her voice, Marcy is smart and looks like "all business", Leaf is very loud, funny and active, William has Mucous membrane disorder and allergic to peanut so he can't go near the peanuts, Logainne has really passionate fathers and has a tongue problem(?) that makes him cannot speak "s" pronunciation, and Chip is very confident and active boy who was the winner of the last year. Each of them makes the audiences laugh in different ways.
The big part of this show is the interaction with the audiences. They nominate several audiences to the stage and make them spell the word. Announcers in the show observe that audiences and make a joke or improvise a hilarious line.
This show was on the Broadway which is the center of the musical place. Also, it won a lot of awards and is nominated to remarkable musical awards in this world.
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