[NEohioPAL] Looking for Audience Spellers at Western Reserve Playhouse
Marie Dusini
mardus at sbcglobal.net
Thu Jul 14 13:35:00 PDT 2011
Would you like to be an audience Speller, Call us 330-620-7314
Western ReservePlayhouse Presents
The 25th AnnualPutnamCountySpelling Bee
Music by William Finn Book by Rachel Sheinkin
July 22, 23, 29, 30 and August 5, 6, 12, & 13
With music and lyrics by William Finn and book by Rachel Sheinkin, The 25th
Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a saucy, quirky musical. The show opened
on Broadway in 2005 and was nominated for six Tony Awards winning two including
a Tony win for Best Book for Rachel Sheinkin.
The Bee is presided over by Ms. Rona Lisa Peretti (played by Chelsea Boyd) whose
own spelling bee win 17 years ago gave her the confidence to embark on a
successful career in real estate. She is joined by Vice-principal Panch (Josh
Bricker) who is returning to the Bee after a five year hiatus that was imposed
immediately after an unknown but clearly unfortunate incident.
For one brief shining moment the group of misfits have the spotlight and a shot
at making PutnamCountyhistory. The only question is: Who will take home the
trophy? Will it
be the latchkey kid Olive (Shani Ferry) or the home-schooled boy with
un-diagnosed Aspergers, Leaf Coney Bear (Allen Seeley)? Perhaps Chip
(Kristapher Ray North), the Boy Scout with unfortunate erections will be
victorious or maybe the sinus-challenged William Barfee (Daniel Lozinak) will
triumph.
Early money is on Marcy (Julia Wilson) who can speak six languages yet can’t
express herself in any of them. Logainne Schwartzandgrubenierre (Hannah Conkle)
who with her world view and two gay dads will give Marcy a run for her money.
The last character is Mitch Mahoney (Stephen Carder), who serves as a comfort
counselor doling out juice boxes to the runners up.
To the delight of audiences, Spelling Bee is an audience participation show.
Members of the audience will be pre-selected to volunteer to be guest
spellers. Many of WRP’s previous audience members who know this show have
already volunteered to be selected.
We look forward to their participation and invite others to let us know if they
want to be part of this night. Just call the theatre and express your
interest.
The one lingering and lasting theme of this show is that these six young people,
overseen by grown-ups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves, learn
that winning isn’t everything and that losing doesn’t necessarily make you a
loser. 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. The songs are fun and saucy and
hopefully no offense is taken by Chip’s Lament song which has been performed in
high schools all over the country including FirestoneHigh Schoolhere in Akron.
The audience was amused by this comical turn.
Director Marc C. Howard has put together not only a talented group of players
but also a
super production team. The Musical Director is Alex Garrard assisted by J. T.
Buck, and stage manager is Scott Jarvis and the lighting is handled by Sue
Snyder and Marty Hess. Leah Sass is the costumer and Walt Kaminski designs
our set once again. Marie Dusini, Sue Snyder and Al Klesh are the producers.
Ticket prices: Adults $14.00 Seniors & Students $13.00
Opening Night July 22nd ONLY -- Buy one, Get
one for $7.00
Curtain Time: 8:00 pm Fridays & Saturdays
For Reservations: Call: 330-620-7314
Theatre is located at 3326 Everett Roadat the Bath/Richfield Township line in
SummitCounty. When using I-77 from the North or South use exit 143 and turn
left at the top of the ramp and drive one half mile and turn right onto Revere
Road. Drive one mile to our theatre which is the big gray Barn on Everett Road.
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