The Review of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Nina Yang

W&C III

Ms. Guarino

03/01/2015

The Review of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

  I don’t have a lot of hobbies, but watch a musical should definitely be one of the few hobbies of mine. This past Friday, I went to see the musical that produced by Cheshire Academy’s teachers and students with my friends. It was called The 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

  I’ve watched quite a few of musicals before, and my favorite Broadway musical is Phantom of the Opera. Before watching this musical, I searched some information about this musical. According to the online information, The 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a musical comedy conceived by Rebecca Feldman. It takes place in the Putnam Valley Middle School, and it has six adolescents compete in the spelling bee which run by three equally grown-ups. The musical was based upon C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-E, an original improvisational play created by Rebecca Feldman. Although I knew what it’s about, I got shocked when they called some random people went on the stage. This kind of thing never happened in my musical watching experiences before. It made me feel excited because there were two teachers I knew were up there. This kind of unconscious surprise that made the audience involved in the musical was creative and gave the show much more fun. The show was about children with different kinds of personalities competing in the spelling bee. The story was about these children. No matter they won at last or not, they all won because they found themselves during the competition-their true personalities. At last, to win the prize was not important anymore because they gained friendships, love, and dreams, which were more important than the final result.

  I like this musical because of a lot of reasons, the unexpected interaction with the audience, the beautiful music, and the colorful lights and background drawings were all very attracted. I noticed that there were many people playing different kinds of instruments behind the stage. I really appreciated their efforts behind the scene. All the actors and the players were hard working, and they were all perfect actors and players.

  All in all, I liked this musical a lot, and I would definitely recommend it to my friends since everybody put efforts and heart in this musical. I think it was the best musical I’ve seen recently.