THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE

January – March, 2005 (Second Stage Theatre; New York, NY)

Assistant Directors: Niegel Smith & Darren Katz

Directed by James Lapine, Written by William Finn & Rachel Sheinkin

Six young people in the throes of puberty, 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. This hilarious tale of overachievers’ angst chronicles the experience of six adolescent outsiders vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime.