Original Broadway Cast of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
William Finn & Jose Llana & Jesse Tyler Ferguson & Deborah S. Craig & Sarah Saltzberg & Dan Fogler & Celia Keenan-Bolger & Derrick Baskin & Jay Reiss & Lisa Howard & Original Broadway Cast of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
William Finn & Original Broadway Cast of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee & Celia Keenan-Bolger
William Finn & Jose Llana & Jesse Tyler Ferguson & Deborah S. Craig & Sarah Saltzberg & Dan Fogler & Celia Keenan-Bolger & Derrick Baskin & Jay Reiss & Lisa Howard
William Finn & Original Broadway Cast of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee & Jose Llana & Jesse Tyler Ferguson & Deborah S. Craig & Sarah Saltzberg & Dan Fogler & Celia Keenan-Bolger & Jay Reiss
William Finn & Original Broadway Cast of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee & Jesse Tyler Ferguson
William Finn & Jose Llana & Jesse Tyler Ferguson & Deborah S. Craig & Sarah Saltzberg & Celia Keenan-Bolger & Derrick Baskin & Jay Reiss & Lisa Howard & Original Broadway Cast of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
William Finn & Original Broadway Cast of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee & Dan Fogler
William Finn & Original Broadway Cast of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee & Jose Llana & Jesse Tyler Ferguson & Deborah S. Craig & Sarah Saltzberg & Dan Fogler & Celia Keenan-Bolger & Derrick Baskin & Jay Reiss & Lisa Howard
William Finn & Jose Llana & Jesse Tyler Ferguson & Deborah S. Craig & Sarah Saltzberg & Dan Fogler & Celia Keenan-Bolger
William Finn & Original Broadway Cast of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee & Derrick Baskin
William Finn & Jose Llana
William Finn & Sarah Saltzberg
William Finn & Jesse Tyler Ferguson
William Finn & Original Broadway Cast of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee & Deborah S. Craig
William Finn & Celia Keenan-Bolger & Derrick Baskin & Lisa Howard
William Finn & Sarah Saltzberg
William Finn & Dan Fogler & Celia Keenan-Bolger & Jay Reiss & Lisa Howard
William Finn & Jose Llana & Jesse Tyler Ferguson & Deborah S. Craig & Sarah Saltzberg & Dan Fogler & Celia Keenan-Bolger & Derrick Baskin & Jay Reiss & Lisa Howard
William Finn & Original Broadway Cast of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee & Jose Llana & Jesse Tyler Ferguson & Deborah S. Craig & Sarah Saltzberg & Dan Fogler & Celia Keenan-Bolger & Derrick Baskin & Jay Reiss & Lisa Howard
William Finn & Deborah S. Craig
Chip’s life returns to pandemonium after he changes the sequences of letters he had already spoken and thus is eliminated…even though he won the previous year.
[Bell rings.]
[RONA, spoken]
A surprise mistake by Mr. Tolentino!
[CHIP, spoken]
But I got it right!
[PANCH, spoken]
"If you start to spell a word, you may start over...
[ALL, spoken]
...but the sequences of letters already spoken may not be changed."
[CHIP, spoken]
That’s not fair. I spelled it right! I can’t get out on a word I spelled right!
[MITCH]
Life is random and unfair
Life is pandemonium
[CHIP, spoken]
That’s not fair! I won last year!
[MITCH]
That’s the reason we despair
[MITCH & SPELLERS]
Life is pandemonium
Life is pandemonium
Life is pandemonium
Life is pandemonium
Life is pandemonium
[BOY SPELLERS]
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye
[GIRL SPELLERS]
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
[SPELLERS]
Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye
Goodbye
[RONA]
Good Lord
That’s what’s swell about spelling bees
I am floored
By how last year’s big cheese
Becomes this year’s disaster
And exit with new humility
It’s a wide-open jamboree
When winners lose surprisingly
Now, I love what I see
I see hope and possibility
When the favorite loses 1-2-3
That’s my favorite moment of the bee
Pandemonium (Reprise)/My Favorite Moment of the Bee 2 was written by Rachel Sheinkin & William Finn.