25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

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Get your tickets for the Ruhala Center's Musical Theatre Ensemble perform the Broadway Hit "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" Friday March 12 @ 8pm, Saturday March 13@ 8pm, and Sunday March 14 @ 7pm. Book by Rachel Sheinkin Music and Lyrics by William Finn Directed by Mark Ruhala Musical Direction by Jeff English Winner of two Tony Awards, THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE is a hilarious tale of overachievers' angst chronicling the experience of six adolescent outsiders vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime. The show's Tony Award winning creative team has created the unlikeliest of hit musicals about the unlikeliest of heroes: a quirky yet charming cast of outsiders for whom a spelling bee is the one place where they can stand out and fit in at the same time. "A modest production that, unlike many of today's musicals, feels refreshingly handcrafted rather than manufactured by committee and market-tested, ''Spelling Bee'' brings to the stage the culture's current mania for celebrating that most revered of American virtues, the will to victory. ''Spelling Bee'' is, in essence, ''A Chorus Line'' with pimples." CHARLES ISHERWOOD New York Times Cast: Avery Batchelor, Lisa Buch, Bridget Farhat, Jena Kelly, Bethany Perkins, Anna Radway, Payton Reilly, Celina Matos Ruhala, Carmen Zavala WHERE: Ruhala Performing Arts Center , located at 1846 Haslett Rd. between Hagadorn and Park Lake Rd.