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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Some productions perform an "Adult Night" version of the show, featuring jokes aimed at a much older audience. Many of the spellers' sentences, for example:
-->'''Doug Panch''': Hearing the immense size of the 'capybara,' Richard Gere said "Sign me up."
**Characters even make [[AllAsiansAreAlike racist]] comments at Marcy's expense.
-->'''Doug Panch''': Hearing the immense size of the 'capybara,' Richard Gere said "Sign me up."
**Characters even make [[AllAsiansAreAlike racist]] comments at Marcy's expense.
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* TheElevenOClockNumber: "Second"
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* TheElevenOClockNumber: "Second""The I Love You Song"
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Arguably a lot of the show, but Chip's song certainly takes the cake. [[spoiler: It's about his RagingStiffie.]]
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* TearJerker: The I Love You Song. [[spoiler: The whole song is about Olive's parents and how the notion of them really loving her is "chimerical": highly unrealistic, wildly fanciful.]]
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''The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee'' is a musical about six misfit kids in a spelling bee and the three crazy adults in charge. The music was written by William Finn and the book was written by Rachel Sheinken.
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''The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee'' is a musical about six misfit kids in a spelling bee and the three crazy adults in charge. The music was written by William Finn and the book was written by Rachel Sheinken.Sheinkin.
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''The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee'' is a musical about six misfit kids in a spelling bee and the three crazy adults in charge. The music was written by William Finn and the book was written by Rachel Sheinken. The cast includes:
* Olive Ostrovsky: A young girl whose mother is away on a [[JourneyToFindOneself Journey To Find Herself]] in India, while [[WhenYouComingHomeDad her father is late to the bee and is implied to not be very present in Olive's life.]]
* Olive Ostrovsky: A young girl whose mother is away on a [[JourneyToFindOneself Journey To Find Herself]] in India, while [[WhenYouComingHomeDad her father is late to the bee and is implied to not be very present in Olive's life.]]
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''The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee'' is a musical about six misfit kids in a spelling bee and the three crazy adults in charge. The music was written by William Finn and the book was written by Rachel Sheinken. The cast includes:\n\n* Olive Ostrovsky: A young girl whose mother is away on a [[JourneyToFindOneself Journey To Find Herself]] in India, while [[WhenYouComingHomeDad her father is late to the bee and is implied to not be very present in Olive's life.]]
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* Olive Ostrovsky:
* William Barfée:
* Logainne Schwarzandgrubenierre:
* Marcy Park:
* Leaf Coneybear:
* Chip Tolentino: The reigning champion and resident [[JerkJock alpha male]], who is undergoing some [[RagingStiffie embarrassing changes in his body]] [[GagPenis due to puberty.]]
* Rona Lisa Peretti:
* Douglas Panch:
* Mitch Mahoney:
* William Barfée:
* Logainne Schwarzandgrubenierre:
* Marcy Park:
* Leaf Coneybear:
* Chip Tolentino: The reigning champion and resident [[JerkJock alpha male]], who is undergoing some [[RagingStiffie embarrassing changes in his body]] [[GagPenis due to puberty.]]
* Rona Lisa Peretti:
* Douglas Panch:
* Mitch Mahoney:
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* Olive Ostrovsky:
* William Barfée:
* Logainne Schwarzandgrubenierre:
* Marcy Park:
* Leaf Coneybear:
* Chip Tolentino: The reigning championOstrovsky: A young girl whose mother is away on a [[JourneyToFindOneself Journey To Find Herself]] in India, while [[WhenYouComingHomeDad her father is late to the bee and resident [[JerkJock alpha male]], who is undergoing some [[RagingStiffie embarrassing changes implied to not be very present in his body]] [[GagPenis due to puberty.]]
* Rona Lisa Peretti:
* Douglas Panch:
* Mitch Mahoney:Olive's life.]]
* William Barfée:
* Logainne Schwarzandgrubenierre:
* Marcy Park:
* Leaf Coneybear:
* Chip Tolentino: The reigning champion
* Rona Lisa Peretti:
* Douglas Panch:
* Mitch Mahoney:
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* Chip Tolentino: The reigning champion and resident [[JerkJock alpha male]], who is undergoing some [[RagingStiffy embarrassing changes in his body]] [[GagPenis due to puberty.]]
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* Chip Tolentino: The reigning champion and resident [[JerkJock alpha male]], who is undergoing some [[RagingStiffy [[RagingStiffie embarrassing changes in his body]] [[GagPenis due to puberty.]]
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''The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee'' is a musical about six misfit kids in a spelling bee and the three crazy adults in charge. The music was written by William Finn and the book was written by Rachel Sheiken.
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''The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee'' is a musical about six misfit kids in a spelling bee and the three crazy adults in charge. The music was written by William Finn and the book was written by Rachel Sheiken. Sheinken. The cast includes:
* Olive Ostrovsky:
* William Barfée:
* Logainne Schwarzandgrubenierre:
* Marcy Park:
* Leaf Coneybear:
* Chip Tolentino: The reigning champion and resident [[JerkJock alpha male]], who is undergoing some [[RagingStiffy embarrassing changes in his body]] [[GagPenis due to puberty.]]
* Rona Lisa Peretti:
* Douglas Panch:
* Mitch Mahoney:
* Olive Ostrovsky:
* William Barfée:
* Logainne Schwarzandgrubenierre:
* Marcy Park:
* Leaf Coneybear:
* Chip Tolentino: The reigning champion and resident [[JerkJock alpha male]], who is undergoing some [[RagingStiffy embarrassing changes in his body]] [[GagPenis due to puberty.]]
* Rona Lisa Peretti:
* Douglas Panch:
* Mitch Mahoney:
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* OppositesAttract: Logainne's Carl Dad and Dan Dad. Carl is all business, making Logainne practice her spelling without end, while Dan is much more lax and values Logainne's comfort over her ability to spell.
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* UptightLovesWild: Logainne's Carl Dad and Dan Dad, Carl making Logainne practice her spelling without end, while Dan being much more lax and valuing Logainne's comfort over her ability to spell.
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* UptightLovesWild: Logainne's Carl Dad and Dan Dad, Carl making Logainne practice her spelling without end, while Dan being much more lax and valuing Logainne's comfort over her ability to spell.
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* StalkerWithACrush: Doug Paunch for Rona Peretti
* SweaterGirl Marigold Coneybear
* SweaterGirl Marigold Coneybear
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* StalkerWithACrush: Doug Paunch Panch for Rona Peretti
*SweaterGirl SweaterGirl: Marigold Coneybear
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* NoRomanticResolution: Aside from [[spoiler: Olive hugging William and him saying she helped him study, there is no resolution to their crush.]]
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* TwoferTokenMinority during Logainne's political speech, she mentions that she not only [[HasTwoMommies has two gay dads]] but is also half-Jewish and mixed race.
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* TwoferTokenMinority during Logainne's political speech, she often mentions that she not only [[HasTwoMommies has two gay dads]] but is also half-Jewish and mixed race.
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* TwoferTokenMinority during Logainne's political speech, she mentions that she not only [[HasTwoMommies has two gay dads]] but is also half-Jewish and mixed race.
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* MundaneMadeAwesome: Apart from the general premise of having a musical about a spelling bee, some scenes particularly play this up with things like spelling in ''slow motion''.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: Apart from the general premise of having a musical about a spelling bee, some scenes particularly play this up with things like spelling in ''slow motion''.
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* MoodWhiplash: From "The I Love You Song", Olive's mother breaks the somber, beautiful tone of the piece with the line "if you're feeling gloomy, blame it on me. Blame it on your daddily and mammily, because depression runs in our family", which usually garners a few laughs from the audience.
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* MoodWhiplash: From "The I Love You Song", Olive's mother breaks the somber, beautiful tone of the piece with the line "if you're feeling gloomy, you feel my gloom, blame it on me. Blame it on your daddily and mammily, because depression runs in our family", which usually garners a few laughs from the audience.
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* AsianAndNerdy: Marcy, usually.
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* AsianAndNerdy: Marcy, usually.usually, though casting varies by production
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* AsianAndNerdy Marcy, usually.
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* AsianAndNerdy AsianAndNerdy: Marcy, usually.
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* GenderBlenderName: Logainne (pronounced like "Logan")
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* [[JewishAndNerdy Half-Jewish and Nerdy]]: Logainne
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*** Logainne - Leaf's mother
*** Marcy - Leaf's sister, usually Brook.
*** Chip - one of Leaf's siblings, [[spoiler:Jesus]]
*** Olive - one of Leaf's siblings
*** Marcy - Leaf's sister, usually Brook.
*** Chip - one of Leaf's siblings, [[spoiler:Jesus]]
*** Olive - one of Leaf's siblings
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** Traditionally, the double-casting is:
*** Rona - Olive's mother
*** Mitch - Olive's Father, Dan/Logainne's Father
*** William - Leaf's father
*** Leaf - Carl/Logainne's [[HasTwoMommies other]] father
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*** Rona - Olive's mother
*** Mitch - Olive's Father, Dan/Logainne's Father
*** William - Leaf's father
*** Leaf - Carl/Logainne's [[HasTwoMommies other]] father
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Any number of school productions don't seem to grasp that, if they need to {{Bowdlerize}} an entire musical number, they may have picked the wrong play.
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* NoFourthWall: Along with the audience spellers, the audience treated as if they're attending the spelling bee rather than a play about a spelling bee. The intermission is even a "snack break."
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* MoodWhiplash: From The I Love You Song, Olive's mother breaks the somber, beautiful tone of the piece with the line "if you're feeling gloomy, blame it on me. Blame it on your daddily and mammily, because depression runs in our family", which usually garners a few laughs from the audience.
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* MoodWhiplash: From The "The I Love You Song, Song", Olive's mother breaks the somber, beautiful tone of the piece with the line "if you're feeling gloomy, blame it on me. Blame it on your daddily and mammily, because depression runs in our family", which usually garners a few laughs from the audience.audience.
** "The I Love You Song" itself is a massive mood whiplash, as the play is almost entirely a raunchy comedy up until this point and there's utterly no warning that the upcoming song is going to be leading to more than a few tears until it finally starts.
** "The I Love You Song" itself is a massive mood whiplash, as the play is almost entirely a raunchy comedy up until this point and there's utterly no warning that the upcoming song is going to be leading to more than a few tears until it finally starts.
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* MoodWhiplash: From The I Love You Song, Olive's mother breaks the somber, beautiful tone of the piece with the line "if you're feeling gloomy, blame it on me. Blame it on your daddily and mammily, because depression runs in our family", which usually garners a few laughs from the audience.
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* ButtMonkey: Pretty much all of the spellers. Including those from the audience.
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* ButtMonkey: Pretty much all of the spellers. Including those from the audience. ''Especially'' those from the audience.
