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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
January 13th, 2009, 1:22 pm · 2 Comments · posted by fsherman
Caught this last night at Northwest Florida College. A fun musical about the title event, with the competitors coping with their personal anxieties in the process.
What made it really fun is that they recruited four people from the audience to the competition, and I got picked as one of them. Much as I would have liked to show off my spelling skills, after two of the four crapped out on their first word, they decided to softball us rather than risk running out of people, so I drew words such as “Mexicans” or “ewes.” Until it was time to get me off stage (a big production number, which is why they didn’t want to lose us too soon) and they hit me with some obscure Nantucket whaling term (a friend of mine who saw it on Broadway said the audience member got it right, so they followed up with something even tougher).
It’s a fun show, I recommend it if you get a chance to see it.
We are going to see the show next week here in Davenport, Iowa. The show starts at 7:30. How early would you suggest we need to arrive to be considered to be picked as one of the 4 from the audience. I thought they interviewed folks as part of the selection process?
Thanks so much for replying, Ken
As I said in my e-mail, I got there about 40 minutes ahead of showtime, but it seems to be less about getting in line and more about having a good visual mix of people–I’m sure my being 5′2″ helped a lot.