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    The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

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    Sunday, January 11, 2026

    3:00 PM

    New World Stages

    340 West 50th Street, New York, NY 10019

    Scheduled

    About This Event

    The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is an Off-Broadway musical presented at New World Stages. It humorously depicts a spelling competition featuring a diverse group of quirky participants.

    About The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee(musical)

    The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a musical comedy with music and lyrics by William Finn, with a book written by Rachel Sheinkin, created by Rebecca Feldman with additional material by Jay Reiss. The show centers on a fictional spelling bee set in a geographically ambiguous Putnam Valley Middle School, some students being from various elementary schools. These six quirky adolescents compete in the Bee, run by three equally quirky grown-ups.