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Spelling Bee Sets 1/20 Closing Date on Broadway

NEWS November 7, 2007 | 5:26PM

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee has announced a closing date of January 20, 2008, at Circle in the Square Theatre. Upon closing, the award-winning musical will have played 1,136 performances and 21 previews on Broadway in a production directed by James Lapine.

Spelling Bee, which features music and lyrics by William Finn and a book by Rachel ...

Darrell Hammond

Q&A July 2, 2007 | 9:22AM

For the past 12 seasons, Darrell Hammond has been a Saturday Night Live mainstay, bringing to comedic life a huge range of famous figures with his uncanny impressions of Bill Clinton, Dick Cheney, Al Gore, Jesse Jackson, Regis Philbin, Chris Matthews, Donald Trump, Sean Connery and Bill O'Reilly, to name just a few. At 51, he ranks as SNL ... Read More...

Saturday Night Live's Darrell Hammond to Join Spelling Bee

NEWS May 29, 2007 | 5:55PM

Saturday Night Live star Darrell Hammond will make his Broadway debut this summer when he joins the cast of the Broadway musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee for a limited engagement as Vice Principal Douglas Panch. Hammond will appear in the show for six weeks, June 12-July 19, at Circle in the Square, replacing comedian Mo Rocca.

Hammond ...

Original Spelling Bee Company to Reunite for Los Angeles Production

NEWS April 4, 2007 | 1:26PM

The upcoming Los Angeles premiere of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee will reunite the original cast of the Broadway production, including Tony winner Dan Fogler, Tony nominee Celia Keenan-Bolger and newly-minted TV star Jesse Tyler Ferguson of The Class. The musical will run for a strictly limited four-week run at California's Wadsworth Theatre from May 24 through ... Read More...

Daily Show Alum Mo Rocca to Join Spelling Bee 4/17

NEWS March 20, 2007 | 5:43PM

Mo Rocca, special correspondent to The Tonight Show and alum of The Daily Show, will join the cast of The 25thAnnual Putnam County Spelling Bee as Vice Principal Douglas Panch for a limited engagement beginning April 17 at Broadway's Circle in the Square Theatre.

The hit musical will also welcome spellers from the San Francisco/Boston company to the ...

Newcomer Jared Gertner Joins the Cast of Broadway's Spelling Bee

NEWS January 30, 2007 | 12:25PM

Newcomer Jared Gertner steps into the role of William Barfee in Broadway's The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee on January 30. Josh Gad played his last performance as the owner of the magic foot on January 28.

Gertner makes his Broadway debut in Spelling Bee after having played the role in the show's San Francisco and Boston ...

Jessica-Snow Wilson to Join Broadway Company of Spelling Bee 9/19

NEWS August 29, 2006 | 5:22PM

Jessica-Snow Wilson will assume the role of shy Olive Ostrovsky in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee when original cast member Celia Keenan-Bolger departs the production for Les Miserables. Wilson will start on Tuesday, September 19 in the hit musical at the Circle in the Square Theatre.

Wilson was last seen on Broadway in the Beach Boys musical Good ...

Deborah S. Craig, Lisa Howard, Celia Keenan-Bolger and Sarah Saltzberg

Q&A July 24, 2006 | 10:36AM

Deborah S. Craig, Celia Keenan-Bolger and Sarah Saltzberg are so believable as pre-adolescent spelling prodigies and Lisa Howard is so convincing as a power-suited former spelling champ that it's a momentary shock to meet them as they really are: four lively, attractive actresses who transform themselves nightly in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. As original cast members ... Read More...

Josh Gad to Replace Tony Winner Dan Fogler in Spelling Bee

NEWS January 19, 2006 | 4:00PM

Tony winner Dan Fogler will play his final performance in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee on January 29. Broadway newcomer Josh Gad will begin performances as William Barfee, owner of the magic foot, on January 31.

A recent graduate of the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, Gad is a student of The Groundlings improvisational troupe and a proud ...

Spelling Bee Goes Blue Again for Three More Performances

NEWS January 5, 2006 | 5:20PM

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is bringing back its popular "for-mature-audiences-only" version of the usually family-friendly show on January 22, February 5 and March 5. It is recommended that kids should not attend these performances.

When the first blue Bee was presented on October 2, former cast member Jay Reiss--who continues to write new material for the show--recalled ...