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News Broadway's Spelling Bee Has Parent-Teacher Conference Oct. 2 with Adult Only Show Broadway's The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee gets a little risque for a special "for-mature-audiences-only" performance Oct. 2 at the Circle in the Square.

The evening performance Oct. 2 at 7:30 PM of the Tony Award-winning musical at will be a "parent/teacher night," according to producers, so "the kids should be left home with the sitter."

Jay Reiss, the actor who performs as Vice Principal Douglas Panch in the show and also provides the definitions and uses them in (unhelpful) sentences, said in a statement, "During rehearsals, I would occasionally cross the line a bit and use some material that was pretty filthy. The cast would crack up, and director James Lapine would say, 'That is so wrong.' On Sunday evening, October 2, some of that material will be used for the first and possibly last time in front of a live audience."

The new William Finn, Rachel Sheinkin and Rebecca Feldman musical began previews April 15 and opened May 2. James Lapine (Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods) directs the spellbinding showdown with the same cast from its earlier Second Stage Off-Broadway run.

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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee pits 10 contestants (six actors, four audience members) against each other in a battle for the championship of the local spelling competition. The cast includes Deborah S. Craig, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Sarah Saltzberg, Dan Fogler, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Jose Llana, Derrick Baskin, Lisa Howard and Jay Reiss. David Stone, James L. Nederlander, Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo, Barrington Stage Company and Second Stage Theater present the work on Broadway by composer William Finn (Falsettos), librettist Rachel Sheinkin (Striking 12) on a concept by Rebecca Feldman. Fogler, Saltzberg and Reiss were part of the original ensemble of C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-E, the play on which the musical is based.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee earned six Tony Award nominations including Best Score, Best Book, Best Direction, Best Featured Actor (Dan Fogler) and Featured Actress (Celia Keenan-Bolger) as well as for the top prize of Best Musical. Fogler and book writer Sheinkin took home awards for their work.

The musical also recently announced that it recouped its initial investment of $3.5 million 18 weeks after opening on Broadway.

For more information, visit www.spellingbeethemusical.com.

 
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