1st Night Photos: Bee Buzzes into Donmar
Tony Award-winning musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee received its UK premiere at the Donmar Warehouse last night (21 February 2011, previews from 11 February), with a cast featuring Katherine Kingsley, Maria Lawson and The League of Gentlemen’s Steve Pemberton.
The musical comedy – in which tensions and emotions are running high in a contest with a place in the national finals at stake – is conceived by Rebecca Feldmann, has music and lyrics by William Finn and a book by Rachel Sheinkin and additional material by Jay Reiss. After opening Off-Broadway, it transferred in 2005 to Broadway, where it ran for three years and won the Tony for Best Book of a Musical.
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PHOTOS BY DAN WOOLLER FOR WHATSONSTAGE.COM.
