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Look Auditions!

AUDITIONS Adults 18 and older ONLY!:   
Sunday, February 26th and Monday, February 27th, 2012, 7:00 to 10:00 p.m.
by APPOINTMENT ONLY! Call 231 722-3852 to arrange a time.
Please arrive 20 minutes early for a photo and to fill out paperwork.
CALLBACKS: Wednesday, February 29th at 7:00 PM
LOCATION: Johnson Hall, 3rd floor Hilt Building, Frauenthal Center for the Performing Arts, 427 West Western Avenue, Muskegon
SHOW RUN: Thursday, May 3rd – Sunday, May 6th, 2012
CURTAIN TIMES: Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 7:30 PM; Sunday at 3:00 PM
REHEARSALS: Monday—Thursdays, 7-10:00 p.m., beginning Monday, March 5th, 2012

AUDITION PROCEDURES
Kirk Wahamaki, the Director, will have all adults do cold readings.
Karen Burek, Music Director, requests that adults prepare a song of their choice and please bring the music for the accompanist.
Choreographer asks that all adults wear comfortable clothing and dance shoes or shoes that tie as all will participate in the dance/movement portion of the auditions.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Music and Lyrics by William Finn, book by Rachel Sheinkin
One Act, Book Musical, Rated R
Six young people in the throes of puberty, overseen by grown-ups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves, learn that winning isn't everything and that losing doesn't necessarily make you a loser. This is a hilarious tale of overachievers' angst chronicling the experience of six adolescent outsiders vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime. The show's Tony Award winning creative team has created the unlikeliest of hit musicals about the unlikeliest of heroes: a quirky yet charming cast of outsiders for whom a spelling bee is the one place where they can stand out and fit in at the same time.

Characters
(All played by adults)

CHIP TOLENTINO – The reigning spelling champion of Putnam County, relatively athletic and social.

LOGAINNE SCHWARTZANDGRUBENNIERE – She is driven by internal and external pressure but above all by a desire to win to make her two fathers proud.

LEAF CONEYBEAR – A second alternate, he never expected to compete here today. Home-schooled with his many siblings, everything about this public bee is an 'adventure for him.

WILLIAM BARFEE – Has a host of health problems and a lot to prove. Loud and combative as a defensive posture, he is the fat kid who becomes a bully to avoid being picked on.

MARCY PARK – The ultimate over-achiever, Marcy has never been given another option.

OLIVE OSTROVSKY – A word lover, Olive has a fairly quiet life. An only child with often-absent parents.

RONA LISA PERRETTI – Putnam's long-time spelling bee hostess, a local realtor, and 3rd annual Putnam County spelling champion.

VICE PRINCIPAL DOUGLAS PANCH – Frustrated with his life. He fell into education, less out of love than a general ability uncoupled to a particular passion.

MITCH MAHONEY – A bouncer's physique and demeanor, Mitch appears an odd choice to be the bee's "comfort counselor," but it is part of his community service assignment.