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THE 25th ANNUAL PUTNAM
COUNTY SPELLING BEE

music & lyrics by WILLIAM FINN
book by RACHEL SHEINKIN
conceived by REBECCA FELDMAN

SEPTEMBER. 10-12, 16-19, 23-25 | 2010

Showtimes : Thurs, Fri & Sat at 8:00pm | Sundays at 2:00pm
Box Office Opens : 45 minutes before show
Doors Open : 30 minutes before show
Admission : All tickets are $20

directed by MICHAEL R. LIPP
musical direction by SAMUEL CLEIN
choreographed by KELLINA CHAVOUSTIE


MUSICAL COMEDY | In its Jacksonville community theatre premiere, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a hilarious tale of overachievers’ angst. The show’s Tony Award-winning creative team has created the unlikeliest of hit musicals about the unlikeliest of heroes: six adolescent outsiders for whom a spelling bee is the one place where they can stand out and fit in at the same time. Along the way they learn that winning isn’t everything and losing doesn’t necessarily make you a loser. Nominated for six 2005 Tony Awards, and winner of two, including Best Book of a Musical.

stage managed by JUDY HULETT
orchestra led and conducted by LAURA PEDEN

and featuring GARY BAKER as Leaf Coneybear, JULIA FALLON as Marcy Parks, EVAN GOULD as Vice Principal Douglas Panch, LEE HAMBY as William Barfee, MIRANDA LAWSON as Olive Ostrovsky, AARON MARSHALL as Rona Lisa Peretti, LESLIE RICHART as Loggaine Schwartzandgrubenierre, JUAN UNZUETA as Mitch, JOSH WALLER as Chip Tolentino

CAST OF CHARACTERS

The Spellers

The Administrators

THE CREATIVE TEAM

WILLIAM FINN (Music & Lyrics) is the writer/composer of FALSETTOS (two Tony Awards: Best Book of a Musical [with James Lapine] and Best Original Score). He has written/composed IN TROUSERS (L.A. Drama Critics Award), MARCH OF THE FALSETTOS (Outer Critics Circle Award for outstanding Musical, L.A. Drama Critics Award), FALSETTOLAND (two Drama Desk Awards and Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical), ROMANCE IN HARD TIMES (Public Theater), A NEW BRAIN (Lincoln Center/Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical) and ELEGIES: A Song Cycle (Lincoln Center). He graduated from Williams College, where he was awarded the Hutchinson Fellowship in Musical Composition, and currently teaches a weekly master class at NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program.

RACHEL SHEINKIN (Book) Recent productions include STRIKING 12, a hybrid concert/play written in collaboration with the rock band GrooveLily and director Ted Sperling (Prince Music Theater, Philadelphia; Old Globe, San Diego;TheatreWorks, Palo Alto); book and lyrics for BLOOD DRIVE (music by Joel Derfner, Eugene O’Neill NMT Conference; Bridewell Theatre, London); and book and lyrics for SERENADE (music by Nils Olaf Dolven). She is an adjunct faculty member at NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program.

REBECCA FELDMAN (Conceived by) conceived, directed and performed in C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-E, the play upon which THE 25th ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE is based, with her company The Farm. She worked on the development of …SPELLING BEE and directed the original production at Barrington Stage Company in the summer of 2004. She has directed and performed in New York and regionally for the past ten years including New York Fringe Festival (Best of Fringe ’98), Soho Rep, HERE, Atlantic Theater Studios, Adobe Theatre, New Dramatists, Mabou Mines, Present Company Theatorium and other downtown venues.