Productions of the Tony Award winning musical, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” will be featured at Lamb’s Players Theatre in Coronado through August 18.
Directed by Robert Smyth with musical direction from G. Scott Lacy, the show centers on a middle school spelling competition performed by multi-talented adults.
Four audience members will be invited on stage to compete in the spelling bee alongside the six characters. Those who are interested in participating can come to the show early to check in at the lobby.
The cast consists of Bryan Barbarin, Megan Carmitchel, Geno Carr, Nancy Snow Carr, Camie Del Rosario, Caitie Grady, Ernest Sauceda, Omri Schein and Ben van Diepen.
The band is made up of Ben Read, Diane Elledge, Stefanie Schmitz and David Rumley.
Performances will take place on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., Thursdays and Fridays at 7 p.m and Sundays at 2 p.m.
More information and tickets are available online at www.lambsplayers.org or through the Lamb’s Box Office at (619) 437-6000 which is open on Wednesdays through Saturdays from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.
About Lamb’s Players Theatre
Lamb’s has presented a calendar-year season since opening its first resident stage in 1978, an intimate theatre-in-the-round in National City. The company spent 17 Season there, steadily building a growing county-wide audience.
Lamb’s became the region’s third largest not-for-profit professional theatre company (after the Old Globe and the La Jolla Playhouse) following the move of its resident theatre to Coronado in 1994.
Information courtesy of Lamb’s Players Theatre.
