Theatre

Memories of Spelling Bees gone by.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

So tonight was fun… Amazing how things can bring back both such fond and painful memories at the same time. I went to a play tonight, “25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” and they were looking for volunteer spellers and I was chosen.

Fond memories of being on stage again, a little bit of improv involved as I had to play along with the actors.

As for the painful memories, just like the last spelling bee, I got out on my first word. It was such a hard word I don’t even remember what it was, the other 3 volunteers had easy words their first rounds (one of them had Cow, another Fandango) but me not so much.

Entertaining though, when the volunteer asked them to use “Fandango” in a sentence, the sentence was:

“I see a little silhouetto of a man, Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango.”

Gotta love a Queen reference.