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Broadway has had its share of nebbishy musical stars, from Seymour Krelboyne in The Little Shop of Horrors to Leo Bloom in The Producers. But it's fair to say that no stage has ever been so densely populated with wacky misfits as The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. The off-Broadway musical, a sleeper hit that is moving to Broadway next month, charts the angst of six nerdy and needy young people as they wrestle down words like capybara and omphaloskepsis in their efforts to win a trip to the national spelling finals. Coming on the heels...
...Spelling Bee started life as a play (originally called C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-E) by an off-off-Broadway improv group called The Farm--whose director, Rebecca Feldman, had never quite got over misspelling the word bruise in a grade-school bee. Playwright Wendy Wasserstein, whose nanny was in the cast, went to see it and alerted her friend, composer Finn. He turned it into a musical, which was staged first in Sheffield, Mass., before making the return trip to New York City...
...Spelling Bee is quite comfortable in its 296-seat off-Broadway home, where it has been selling out since its early February opening, so there's the usual trepidation about the move to grander, Broadway digs. Producer David Stone insists that the quick transfer was done not to get in under the wire for the Tony nominations but to take advantage of the show's momentum. "The actors were getting so much attention--people clamoring to offer them things--the only way we were going to keep them together was to go quickly," he says. Two splashier Broadway musicals--Monty...
Have you, par exemple, been punched by the Bee (extension) Club? Or attended the Daedalus (extension) Final (extension) Club [correction: Daedalus (extension) is not a Final (extension) Club; see New York Times, Feb. 20, 2005]. OK, so maybe you’re not “cool.” Whatever. Not everyone gets to hang out at the super-sexist-and-(extension) elitist Porcellian (extension) Club. Maybe the (extension) Owl is more to your tastes...
...gets all the references in the Justice League story “Take Your Kids to Work Day” to the subversive romantic sympathizing with the dating travails of Deadman, a ghost that can briefly possess the living to the media satire of “The Red Bee Returns,” an attempt by a long-dormant hero to receive mainstream attention. No matter what your graphic novel baggage, the trip to Bizarro World is worth the ride...