The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Original Post Date: January 27, 2007

What a fun show! Very inventive and creative. Can you spell S-I-L-L-Y? Who'd of thunk that a spelling bee could be so entertaining? The actors were great, the show is a riot, and it's just one laugh after another. Especially when they bring people up from the audience to be guest spellers. Get a load of this: Of the 4 people they brought up from the audience, one was a little kid. From my seat waaaaaaaay up top, he looked to be about 10 years old. Anyway, he was the last one left up there and they gave him a pretty hard word. AND HE SPELLED IT RIGHT!!!! Panch was like "Oh, my gosh. He got it right!" He and Rona Lisa started laughing and the audience quickly caught on that the kid wasn't supposed to have gotten the word right. We all started cheering. It took them a moment, but they got the kid up again and gave him a super long, hard word. He immediately started to spell it wrong and they cut him off. It was sooooooo funny!!!!!!

There were a couple of problems with the sound and a couple of things were lost to those of us in the nose bleed section. I could tell that this is a show better played in a smaller house. It loses a little when it's in a large touring house. But still, it was a great time had by all.