25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Fridays June 14 & 21 at 8pm Saturday June 15 at 2pm & 8pm Saturday June 22 at 8pm Sunday June 23 at 2pm All Seats Are Reserved! Adults $23; Seniors & Child under 12 $20 Group Rates available, Student Discount available with proper ID. Purchase Tickets: Brown Paper Ticke......More

Fridays June 14 & 21 at 8pm Saturday June 15 at 2pm & 8pm Saturday June 22 at 8pm Sunday June 23 at 2pm All Seats Are Reserved! Adults $23; Seniors & Child under 12 $20 Group Rates available, Student Discount available with proper ID. Purchase Tickets: Brown Paper Tickets 800-838-3006 Theatre Box office 845-526-3461 Website www.stpny.com​ a riotous ride complete with audience participation..... A junior high school gym is set up to host the county spelling finals. Winners from local elementary and middle schools begin to arrive and check in with the bee's long-time hostess—and Former champion—Rona Lisa Pereti. Audience volunteers are also welcomed to the stage. A glitch: Speller Olive Ostrovsky does not have her entrance Fee; she hopes her father will set there soon to straighten it out. Vice Principal Douglas Panch of Lake Hemingway-Dos Passos Junior High is announced as the day's word pronouncer - he's a last minute substitute for an ailing superintendent. Panch has a dubious track record at the bee but will try to do better this time. The rules are explained. When a speller misses a word a bell will ring - ding - and the speller must immediately leave the stage, escorted, by the bee's coumfort-counsellor, Mitch Mahoney.

Julie Harris Theatre in the Clearview School, 480 Albany Post Rd., Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510