After school’s play in autumn called “Galileo Galilei”, I started to look forward the Winter Theatre program. The play is called The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which the music and lyrics is written by William Finn and Book’s written by Rachel Sheinkin. The story is about a spelling competition called spelling bee. Six spellers were the main character in the competition and each of them came to the competition with his or her stories. They all have different ways to spell words and they have totally different personalities. I like the play by the special way it portrayed characters, the musical form of the play and the interesting plot of the play.
Firstly, I love the shaping of those characters. They are all different. Chip is the champion of the previous Spelling Bee that his proud and always think about girls. Logainne grew up with her two fathers. She was the youngest speller and always wished to be accepted by America. Leaf was the character I like the most. He was naughty and silly in my mind when I first see him. However, he’s just a poor boy who has been ignored by his whole family and wished to justify him. Marcy was a clever and arrogant girl who seemed to know everything, but when she understood that it’s not guilty to do something wrong, she found what she truly wants to do in her life. Olive was a shy girl who always wished to see her father in the spelling bee. Lastly, the winner, William was a clever boy who had a magic foot. He thought nobody liked him, but he might get the respect and friendship from his opponent, Olive. They were all independent people and they are all important in the play.
About the form of the play, it’s more likely to be a musical than a normal play. I heard many beautiful songs in the whole play and have been moved deeply. For example, I can never forget the scene when Olive’s father and mother thing together to show their love of Olive. The sound was so beautiful that it’s continuing wondering in my mind and could never leave. The music throughout the show makes it more complete and give audiences a better impression to understand the show. I remembered Logainne’s dream of being a perfect American, I remembered the dream that William wanted somebody to like him, and I remembered Chip’s anger of being out. The scenes are real with the music.
The plot was another thing I like in the play. It’s not so breathtaking, but still logical and out of my imaginary. For example, when one of Logainne’s father poured his drink on the floor to try to ruin William’s magic foot, I thought he was going to loose forsooth. However, he lastly spelled the world and I felt his surprise while he said, “I can make it without a foot!” Dramatically, Logainne was the loser of that round. I paid attention to the entire play and all the scenes was in my mind.
Lastly, I wish more people would see the excellent play that brought me happiness and pleasant. The show was beautiful, which made me already started looking forward the play coming this spring season.
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