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Rebecca performs in production of Spelling Bee

by David on August 28th, 2010

On the last week of summer, Rebecca performed in the Broadway production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.  Even though the story is about kids performing in a spelling bee, the Broadway stage play script was severely edited to make it family friendly.  I’ve decided Spelling Bee (the edited version anyway) is my favorite show Rebecca has performed yet, for a couple of reasons.  One, it presents the lives of a bunch of quirky and awkward junior-high kids competing in a spelling bee – in a word, hilarious.  Rebecca played Rona, a former childhood champion returning as hostess of the Bee. Rona viewed her life less as childhood champion and more as lifelong Bee Queen. To everyone else, she was simply pretentious and, well, slightly full of herself.

Since the show was performed at a small venue, we could see all the facial expressions of all the actors.  Equally as enjoyable was the cast – perhaps the most talented group of young actors we’ve seen to date.  Believe it or not, the whole show, including three-part harmony singing, was mastered in only 40 hours of rehearsal.  Below are some videos taken with my Android phone and photos are courtesy of Clayton Mills, one of the other dads.  Pictures and video below. Enjoy!

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  1. Jaime Christ permalink

    Hey! I stumbled across this page, and was super excited for a chance to see Rebecca in acting! Unfortunately, the videos don’t work for me since they’re private. Can you send me an invite please? 🙂

  2. Hey Jamie! Thanks for dropping in and checking it out. (For all that don’t know Jamie, Jamie was Rebecca’s Kindergarten teacher!) About the videos: I’m experimenting moving all our videos from a fee-based video hosting service to YouTube. (Everyone is laughing now because they’ve been using YouTube for years… It was the “suggested videos” links that I didn’t want on our blog. YouTube now gives you the option to turn that junk off… More than you wanted to know.) I think I’ve got the security set right now, so enjoy!

  3. Lowell & Betty permalink

    Looked like an exciting production. Sorry I wasn’t to see it in person. The videos gave me an idea about the play but I think I would have gotten more out of it live. I could not tell which lady was Rebecca but they did a great performance. Hopefully I’ll get to see a future play in person. Keep up the good work.

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