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Dan Fogler, Deborah S. Craig, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Sarah Saltzberg.
WINNER TWO TONY AWARDS:
.. .Best Featured Actor - Dan Fogler
.. .Best Book - Rachel Sheinkin
Six Tony Nominations:
Best Musical
Best Book
Best Original Score
Best Direction
.. .Best Featured Actor - Dan Fogler
.. .Best Featured Actress - Celia Keenan-Bolger
Winner Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Musical
& Outstanding Featured Actor - Dan Fogler
Winner Outer Critics Circle Award -- Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical - Dan Fogler
Winner Theatre World Award for Outstanding Debut: Dan Fogler
Winner Theatre World Award for Outstanding Debut: Celia Keenan-Bolger
Winner 3 Drama Desk Awards:
Outstanding Director of a Musical -
James Lapine
Outstanding Book of a Musical -
Rachel Sheinkin
.Outstanding Ensemble
Nominated for Drama League Award:
Distinguished Production of a Musical
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"[William Finn's] nimble, upbeat score provides the emotional underpinning for Rachel Sheinkin's more satirical - indeed often riotously funny - book....the musical cannily recalls another, now classic, show that also dissects the joys and despairs of ruthless competition: Spelling Bee is, in essence, A Chorus Line with pimples."
--Charles Isherwood, New York Times
"...Composer-lyricist William Finn and book writer Rachel Sheinkin's winsome and winning new musical is so generously hearted [that] only the most bitter misanthrope could resist its charm."
--David Rooney, Variety
"Let me pause for a moment so you can go right down and buy tickets, because William Finn, the writer-composer of Falsettos and A New Brain, and Rachel Sheinkin, author of the funniest musical-comedy book to come along in years, have blown the bull's-eye off the target."
--Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal
"How do you spell hit? Quite simply, really. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. This ingratiating musical...has a lot of what has been missing from many new musicals in the last several years -- heart."
-- Michel Kuchwara, AP Drama Critic
"What A Chorus Line did for hoofers, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee wants to do for geeks. This loony lollipop of a musical...presents a divinely flaky nerd's eye view of life, with the thesis that a guy can catch cooties and still catch a break with the ladies." --Washington Post
"A smart, appealing musical, Spelling Bee is a winner...this original little charmer is a tonic for the midwinter blues."
--Michael Sommers, NJ Star-Ledger
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