The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee: Theater review

>> Tuesday 1 March 2011

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee'
Broadway musical hit comedy brings ease and laughs, Donmar Theatre, London.


Donmar Warehouse, London (2 April)


Katherine Kingsley, Harry Hepple, Iris Roberts, Chris Carswell, David Flynn, Maria Lawson, Hayley Gallivan, Steve Pemberton, AKO Mitchell


Jamie Lloyd


LONDON - easy, fun and frothy, Broadway musical which 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee a hit odd choice for the serious-minded Donmar Warehouse, but his U.S. high school hijinks, and a cast full of Fizz make it a welcome change.


Try as a colourful range of young people, their way to the success of Jamie Lloyd'slovely production spell, Lampoons of Donmar's Theatre, London sober taste, if the person "Lachrymose" used in a sentence: "Staging a musical comedy made a change from the usual larmoyant productions theater".


Rachel Sheinkin'sBook won a 2005 Tony Award, and here, it holds sprightly a tempo as the children fun derived what opaque to understand their orthographic challenges to meet, and as you are busy.


Lively songs areWilliam Finn'sfull tongue-twister and outrageous rhymes, including a lyric of a young man in a State of the undue excitement, who sings his "Protuberance seems unhappy have own exuberance."


Christopher Oram'sBright set resembles a high school gymnasium, the seats in the Donmar's small town according to teaching chairs, all a vibrant blue changed.


Katherine Kingsley Rona Lisa Perretti plays for, a former spelling bee champions and current real estate seller charm of the worst Professional running replacement that brings current competition.


Steve Pemberton, of British TV's the League of gentlemen, is vice principal Douglas Panch, a teacher with a dark past, who is trying to make the test as a devilishly difficult as possible. A child overanalyzes the problem and the response of "Vugghe," are thought, it an arcane Cornish routes, have, if it is simply "Vug."


The candidates are a preponderance of mother's boy (David Flynn), a Space Cadet (Chris Carswell), a future quarterback (Harry Hepple), an overachiever (Maria Lawson), a girl with a speech impediment and two fathers (Iris Roberts) and a lonely man whose Mutter is in an Ashram in India (Hayley Gallivan).


You get a chance to glow a winding firecracker like you with Lawson, your six languages, showing competence in different sports and the ability to sing while dancing at high speed. Hepple is too vulgar a song about a mistimed erection of and Carswell is a new-age child called leaf Coneybear with appropriate irritated.


One is a joke about hard time with Sibilants from becoming cruel Roberts and Flynn makes sympathetic the distrusting Mama's boy and directed stage chemistry with Gallivan as the girl, which her mother misses the target.


Slim, blonde and sassy, Kingsley quivers of rafters high school in several numbers, but also sweet sings as the mother of a candidate. AKO Mitchell sings well and comfort for which provides some droll lines as a Parolee, whose Community serving requires him to dress in the bee outfit and offer lose Spellers.


The show has a nice gimmick, are four audience every night to the spelling bee participants invited. A critic from a London newspaper press night was one of you, who would acquitted himself with; Another was a young man, earned the applause by getting a very difficult Word right.


Venue: Donmar Warehouse, London (2 April)
Cast: Katherine Kingsley, Harry Hepple, Iris Roberts, Chris Carswell, David Flynn, Maria Lawson, Hayley Gallivan, Steve Pemberton, AKO Mitchell
Music and lyrics: William Finn
Book: Rachel Sheinkin
Director: Jamie Lloyd
Set designer: Christopher Oram
Lighting designer: Neil Austin
Sound designer: Terry Jardine, Nick Lidster for autograph
Choreography: Ann Yee
Conductor: Alan Williams


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