PLEASE BE CAREFUL:  Please make good decisions about using technology to share your emotions!  

Sharing your happy or sad thoughts (excited or angry thoughts) can be very dangerous to your relationships to your friends in the Performing Arts Department, as well as your future in the Choir and Theater Department.  

If you don’t get the role that you have been hoping for, please take some time away from your phone and your computer.  

ALSO, if you DO get the role that you have been hoping for, be careful of what you put into print!  You could easily crush a friend if they didn’t get the role that they have dreamed of.  

Be conscious and caring about your relationships with your friends.  

Also know that if you spew poison on Facebook, know in advance that you will be burning many bridges for the rest of the year. THINK – WAIT and then respond.        

This is written in love from your directors!

Congrats to all: First read through tomorrow in F 108 at 2:30.

Chip Totentino:                Aaron Tacy

Schwartzy:                          Anna Saunders

Coneybear:                        Ian Saunders

William Barfee:                Blake Gronlund

Marcy Park:                        Alexa Moffo

Olive:                                   Hannah Cleveland

Rona:                                    Melissa Anderson

Panch:                                  Johnny Kashat

Mitch Mahoney:               Josh Gronlund

Carl Dad:                             Johnny Kashat

Dan Dad:                              Bryan Dogariu

Olive’s Mom (solo):        Megan Sharpe

Olive’s Dad (solo):          Josh Gronlund

Jesus Christ:                       Collin Kuss

Spectators/Extras:

Olivia Barris

Bryan Dogariu

Laura Katsnelson

Collin Kuss

Natasha Marshall

Eni Mihilli

Shayna Naemi

So Yoon (Sandra) Oh

Turron White-Moore

Didn’t make the cast this time around? 

Please consider being a part of a tech crew. 

You can still be a part of the magic we call “musical theater”! 

Contact Ms. Paullin for more information.

From the Broadway Playbill:

The Spellers:

Chip Tolentino – The reigning spelling champion of Putnam County, relatively athletic and social, he expects things to come easily to him. Lately though, he’s been going through some weird changes, and things are slipping out of his control. Tenor.

Logainne Schwartzandgrubenniere – Younger than most bee participants, she is driven by internal and external pressure – but above all by a desire to win to make her two fathers (from whom she takes her combined last name) proud. She lisps, is a little uncomfortable in her body, has some tics, but still manages to strike a strong presence with her political awareness and keen sense of justice. Having drilled words for hours a day, she is aware of everything that passes in the room. Mezzo.

Leaf Coneybear – A second alternate, he never expected to compete. Home-schooled with his many siblings, everything about this public bee is an adventure for him, from meeting the other kids to showing off his homemade clothing, to each moment of unexpected attention. He may have severe Attention Deficit Disorder but delights in his own wandering focus. Leaf doesn’t expect to win – or even to spell one word correctly – but he finds absolutely everything incredibly amusing. His mother has made him wear his protective helmet to the bee. Tenor.

William Barfee – Has a host of health problems and a lot to prove. Loud and combative as a defensive posture, his is the fat kid who becomes a bully to avoid being picked on (though he often gets picked on anyway so gets into a lot of fights). His parents are divorced, his father remarried to a much younger woman; and William does not expect kindness from anyone but his mother. So friendship takes him by surprise. Still, he’s noticed on the spelling circuit for his remarkable technique – spelling words out on the floor with his foot. Taken out of competition last year because of an ill-timed allergic reaction, he’s here for vindication. The journey he doesn’t expect is one of coming to care about someone else – when he sees outside his own needs for perhaps the first time, it shakes him fundamentally. Tenor.

Marcy Park – The ultimate over-achiever, Marcy has never been given another option. She comes from a family where excellence is expected and so simply produced. A parochial school student, she assumes God, too, expects perfection. She sees herself as a mass of problems but she keeps them to herself. Having moved often because of her parents’ work, she knows she can beat the local competition. Her many talents include piano, dance, martial arts, baton twirling, and/or whatever special gifts the actress playing her possesses. Mezzo.

Olive Ostrovsky – A word lover, Olive has a fairly quiet life. An only child with often-absent parents, Olive spends a lot of her time alone. She fills some of that time reading the dictionary – the words bring her comfort, as does the idea of the vastness of the world the book contains. During the first half of the bee, she often peers into the audience to see if her father, who is delayed at work, has made it yet. She starts enormously shy, and shyly blossoms. Mezzo.

The Adults:

Rona Lisa Perretti – Putnam’s long-time spelling bee hostess, a local realtor, and third annual Putnam County spelling champion. This is Rona’s day to be queen. From her perspective she keeps the bee running smoothly, upholds protocol, and conveys crucial information to the audience. Her interest in the competition is unflagging and drives it forward. She thinks of this as a complex, cerebral sporting event, and she wants the audience to understand every twist and turn. If anything, in her life in general, she has to minimize the importance of this event to her, embarrassed that her own championship moment remains such a highlight. A little concerned when the substitute word pronouncer arrives, she knows she has to step up her game to make the day a success. This actor also plays Olive’s Mom in fantasy. Age 30 to 40. Mezzo.

Vice Principal Douglas Panch – of Lake Hemmingway Dos Passos Junior High is frustrated with his life. He fell into education, less out of love than a general ability uncoupled to a particular passion. The drive of the young spellers is alien to him. He never found anything that important. Stuck in his current job, endlessly awaiting a promotion that isn’t coming, he was not happy to get the call this morning that he was needed to substitute; but he starts the bee eager to do well, to redeem himself for past mistakes, and to impress the local hostess, Rona Lisa, who impressed him long ago. Age 40 to 55. Baritone.

Mitch Mahoney – With a bouncer’s physique and demeanor, Mitch appears an odd choice to be the bee’s “comfort counselor,” but it’s part of his community service assignment. The outsider, who in a way gets to inhabit the audience perspective, he wonders about the wisdom of putting the kids through this at all. He has no idea how to offer comfort, but does increasingly find himself wishing he could find a way to make the kids feel better about losing, and perhaps place misspelling in wider perspective. Age 25 to 35. Tenor.