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    The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

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    Thursday, January 22, 2026

    7:30 PM

    New World Stages

    340 West 50th Street, New York, NY 10019

    Scheduled

    About This Event

    Live musical performance at New World Stages

    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.