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COMING SOON...
IN THE CURRENT
11/11-13
A quartet of refined works by guest and faculty choreographers
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE - A LIVE RADIO PLAY By Joe Landry
12/2-24
Produced by Colorado Shakespeare Festival
Tickets at: www.coloradoshakes.org
CHOREOGRAPHERS SHOWCASE
12/2 & 4/27
a musical
GRADUATE STUDENT SHOWCASE
12/3 & 4/28
EVERYTHING YOU CAN IMAGINE IS REAL- AN EVENING OF ONE ACT PLAYS
By David Ives and Don Nigro
2/1-2/5
Music and Lyrics by William Finn
Book by Rachel Sheinkin
Conceived by Rebecca Feldman
NEXUS
2/17-19
A curated evening of works by student and community choreographers
MELANCHOLY PLAY: A CONTEMPORARY FARCE By Sarah Ruhl
2/29-3/4
OPEN SPACE-A STUDENT CONCERT
3/2-4
Directed By
Deric McNish
THE BURIAL AT THEBES - A VERSION OF SOPHOCHLES’ ANTIGONE By Seamus Heaney
3/15-18, 3/20-23
Cast:
VANGUARD VARIATIONS A diverse evening of performance explorations
by the 2012 class of BFA students
3/16-3/18
HEAVEN Rennie Harris World Premiere
4/19-4/22
A hip hop take on Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring”
(In Alphabetical Order)
FRINGE FESTIVAL 4/27-4/29
Produced by CU Onstage
http://cuonstage.edublogs.org
Logainne Schwarzandgrubenniere Cinnamon Aldridge
William Barfée Cole Bradley
Marcy Park Satya Chávez
Ensemble/Understudy Cole Cribari
Vice Principal Douglas Panch Alex Demos
The Theatre & Dance department is deeply grateful for support from these individuals who help
make our season of courses, workshops & performances possible:
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Visionaries David Andrews, Sheri & Bob Best, Martin Cobin, James & Anne DeCastro, Kenneth
Gamauf, Carol & Todd Gleeson, Roe Green, Noel Hefty, Joan Knaub, Karen & Ed Koeppe, Eugene
Kratus, Robert and Dorothy W. Mullin, Jerilyn & Ro ert Nalley, Debra Ordway, Gail Pokoik, Jamie &
Alan Redmond, Dorothy & Anthony Riddle, Rebecca & James Roser, Schwab Charitable Fund, Charlotte
Irey Short, Mikael Van Loon, Anne Mc Donald Winton Angels Marilyn &Phil Cohen, Helen Redman
Sustainers John H. Ade, Barbara Allen, Jerry H. Bledsoe, Susan H. Blythe, Anna Nicole Castle, Kerry Ann
DeVivo, Ronald and Jacque Frazee Frazzini, Tymar R. Goudey, Diane Sobel Hackett, Hugh M. & Edna
Heckman, Mary Kay Hilbert Holder, Thomas M. Kennedy, Patricia Eckert Lindell, Margaret Nelson,
Lynn Wayne Nichols, Margaret Nolan, Carl & Debra Rahal, Briana Shuwarger, Mary Kennedy Testa,
Bruce James Thorburn, Marc Vann, Marta Wachter, RL Widmann, Barbara Zarlengo Supporters Lara
Branen Ahumada, Glen Atkins, Donna Rae Bartz, Sylvia Bradford Emery, James H. Breen, Pamela Louise
Fox, Nicole Barchilon Frank, Bob Gereke, Jane Slusarski-Harris, Sally Heath, Eugene Jacobson, Ruth Ann
Jenkins, Nancy Kantra, Jackie Leech Stoffel, Catherine Melich, Kenneth E. Ogren, Laura Oster, Stanford
Paris, Jackie PJohnson, Betty Reiss, Leanne Rizzo, Darrell Sanchez, H. Toll, Marilyn Texel, Lauri Van Hise,
Robert F. Ward, Trudy & Ronald Zimmerman (donors since 1995)
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Carl Grubenniere Tony Dostert
Ensemle/Understudy Brittany Renee Handler
The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival 44, ™
part of the Rubenstein Arts Access Program, is generously funded by David and Alice Rubenstein. Additional support is provided by Olive Ostrovsky Katherine McManus
Mitch Mahoney/Olive Dad Russell Mernagh
the U.S. Department of Education, the Dr. Gerald and Paula
McNichols Foundation, The Honorable Stuart Bernstein and Wilma E. Bernstein, and the National Committee for the Performing Arts.
This production is entered in the Kennedy Center
American College Theater Festival (KCACTF). The aims of
this national theater education program are to identify and
promote quality in college-level theater production. To this
end, each production entered is eligible for a response by a
regional KCACTF representative, and selected students and
faculty are invited to participate in KCACTF programs
involving scholarships, internships, grants and awards for
actors, directors, dramaturgs, playwrights, designers, stage
managers and critics at both the regional and national levels.
Productions entered on the Participating level are
eligible for inclusion at the KCACTF regional festival and can
also be considered for invitation to the KCACTF national
festival at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
in Washington, DC in the spring of 2012.
Last year more than 1,300 productions were entered
in the KCACTF involving more than 200,000 students
nationwide. By entering this production, our theater
department is sharing in the KCACTF goals to recognize,
reward, and celebrate the exemplary work produced in college
and university theaters across the nation.
Leaf Coneybear/Dan Schwarz James Miller
Rona Lisa Perretti/Olive Mom Megan Montalbano
Chip Tolentino/Jesus Johnny Stewart
Special Thanks To:
Kevin Corlett and Cecilia Pang
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Dramaturgy Note
Song List
If we’re being honest, we all know that kid: the really smart kid, the weird kid, the
shy kid, and the kid that talks funny. We all know the kid that eats lunch alone
every day. Maybe you are that kid. In the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,
we have the opportunity to see that kid shine in an environment
where they can be the ultimate cool kid.
Because, after all, the Scripp’s
National Spelling Bee is a big deal.
Not only is it televised nationally on ESPN,
but the first place winner takes home about $40,000 in cash prizes,
a free set of Encyclopedia Brittanica (and who wouldn’t want a free set of
Encyclopedia Brittanica?), and a big-ass trophy.
Perhaps more importantly, these kids have the opportunity to show the world
that they are good at something. And deep down, we all want to make Mom and
Dad proud, don’t we? In Spelling Bee, we see these kids perform under this
pressure with varying degrees of success.
We see them as they might someday behave as grown ups with real jobs and
pressures and responsibilities. We see how these very special kids might one day
function in our society. Maybe we see ourselves.
If we allow it, maybe we see how that weird, smart,
antisocial kid wasn’t very weird after all.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
The Rules
My Friend the Dictionary
Pandemonium
I’m Not That Smart
Magic Foot
Pandemonium(Reprise)
Prayer of the Comfort Counselor
Chip’s Lament
Woe is Me
I’m Not That Smart(Reprise)
I Speak Six Languages
The I Love You Song
Woe is Me (Reprise)
Second (Part One)
Pas De Deux
Second (Part Two)
The Champion
Finale
The Barrington Stage Company workshop of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee was originally
co-directed by Michael Barakiva and Rebecca Feldman
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is presented through special
arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.
421 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212-541-4684 Fax: 212-397-4684
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The Farm was founded in 2000 by Rebecca Feldman, Artistic Director. It is a collective of writers and
performers, including Jay Reiss, Dan Fogler, and Sarah Saltzberg. The Farm’s interest is in the role of
improvisation in creating new work for the theatre. The Farm initially designates a two-week intensive
period in which to discover, develop, and rehearse a play from the impulses borne mainly out of the
pressure of a deadline. Pervious projects include Super (at Atlantic Theatre Studios), Why I hate Florida
(workshop at White Wave in DUMBO) and C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-E (at the Present Company Theatorium in
October 2002), on which The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is based.
The character and original dialogue of “Beth Marguiles,”
“Vice President Douglas Panch,” “Mr. Barfee,” and “Logan Schwarzengrubenierre” were
created by Rebecca Feldman, Jay Reiss, Dan Fogler, and Sarah Saltzberg, respectively.
William Finn (Music/Lyrics) Mr. Finn is the writer and composer of Falsettos, for which he received
two Tony Awards, Best Book of a Musical (with James Lapine) and Best Original Score. He has also
written and composed In Trousers, March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland (Outer Critics Circle Award
for Best Musical, two Los Angeles Drama Critic’s Awards, two Drama Desk Awards, the Lucille Lortel
Award, and Guggenheim Fellowship in Musical Composition).
Mr. Finn wrote the lyrics to Graciela Daniele’s Tango Apasionado (music by the great Astor Piazzolla)
and, with Michael Starobin, the music to Lapine’s version of The Winter’s Tale. His musical, Romance in
Hard Times, was presented at the Public Theater. Recently, he wrote Painting You for Love’s Fire, a piece
commissioned and performed by the Acting Company, based on Shakespeare’s sonnets.
For television, Mr. Finn provided the music and lyrics for the Ace Award-winning HBO cartoon,
Ira Sleeps Over,Tom Thumb and Thumbelina, Pokey Little Puppy’s First Christmas, and with Ellen Fitzbhugh,
two Brave little Toaster cartoons. Mr. Finn has written for Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and The New Yorker.
A graduate of Williams College where he was awarded the Hutchinson Fellowship for
Musical Composition, Finn now teaches a weekly master class at the NYU Tish Graduate Program in
Musical Theatre Writing. His most recent projects include Elegies, A Song Cycle (Lincoln Center) and
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which ran on Broadway and has been produced
nationally and internationally, as well.
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Based upon C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-E, an original play by The Farm.
Additional material by Jay Reiss
Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine David Stone,
James L. Nederlander, Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo
Barrington Stage Company, Second Stage Theatre
Production Staff
Rachel Sheinkin (Book) The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Tony and Drama Desk
Awards); Deaf West’s Sleeping Beauty Wakes (Los Angeles Ovation Award); Striking 12: a GrooveLily rock
musical (Lucille Lortel nomination); Serenade (Barhshnikov Dance Foundation Fellowship) and Blood
Drive (O’Neil National Music Theater Conference). Commissions include new works for MTC and
Playwrights Horizons. Upcoming at the Guthrie in summer, 2008, Little House on the Prairie. Rachel
teaches at NYU’s Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program and mentors with TDFs Open Doors
scholarship program. Member Dramatists Guild and ASCAP.
Piano Conductor
Cello
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Reeds
Trent Hines
Mathieu D’ordine
Isaac Zuckerman
Alix Brickley
Andrew Stonerock
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Katie Cross
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Kassandra Kunisch
Morgan Peters
Kelly McDermott
Pamela Stone
Jeanine McCain
Mary Mekeal
Sarah Bowers
Hadley Kamminga-Peck
Graham Emmons
Laura Ferrante
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Daniel Leonard
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