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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: a track from the original Broadway cast recording of "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee."

RS: The show is a musical satire of spelling competitions and the pressure to "go to Washington" – where, in real life, the best young spellers compete in the National Spelling Bee.

'Putnam County Spelling Bee'

VOICE: Ms. Peretti. Please spell "syzygy."

RONA: S-y-z-y-g-y. Syzygy?

VOICE: We have a winner!

RONA: Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

CHIP: At the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

My parents keep on telling me

Just being here is winning.

Although

I know it isn't so.

RONA: But it's a very nice

Very, very nice ...

RONA, CHIP: Very, very nice

Very nice beginning.

RONA: Our winner here last year: Chip Tolentino.

SCHWARZY: Ms. Peretti!

RONA: And our youngest competitor, Logainne Schwarzandgrubeniere.

CONEYBEAR: At the 25th Annual

Putnam County Spelling game -- Bee!

I'll stand when they announce my

name:

RONA: Leaf Coneybear.

CONEYBEAR: And try and keep from shaking.

SCHWARZY: Alas

His shaking will not pass

CONEYBEAR/CHIP/RONA/SCHWARZY:

'Cause it's a very big,

Very fraught

Simple but it's not

It's a very big undertaking.

RONA: Returning after last year's tragic setback, William Barfee.

BARFEE: It's pronounced Barfee, there's an accent egue.

RONA: I'm not sure who this girl is.

MARCY: Marcy Park. Recent transfer.

SCHWARZY: Winner's destination: Washington, D.C.

CHIP/SCHWARZY: Plasma TV

In a fancy hotel.

MARCY/CHIP/SCHWARZY: Where they treat you well.

ALL: All because you love to spell.

We spell.

RONA: It's a marvelous memory

If you win the spelling bee.

One's life improves from A to Z

The minute you are crowned here.

I see a trophy held by me!

And when I won

Did I swell?

Oh the stories I could tell!

But braggarts don't do well

Around here.

OLIVE: Hi, I'm Olive Ostrovsky. Do you know where I check in?

BARFEE: Shut up!

CONEYBEAR: At the 25th Annual

We memorize the manual ...

ALL: About how to spell these words.

Words that require thought.

People think we're automatons.

But that is exactly what we're not.

MARCY: We hear the word.

SCHWARZY: We breathe.

CONEYBEAR: We wait.

ALL: Unlike idiots we ideate.

RONA: To ideate is to form an image or idea, to think

CONEYBEAR: At the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee ...

SCHWARZY: We feel no animosity.

SCHWARZY/OLIVE: And yet our heads are spinning.

BARFEE: We are

The slightest bit bizarre.

MARCY: But since the time is now ...

CONEYBEAR: Holy cow!

SCHWARZY: We shall make a solemn vow

To concentrate on winning.

ALL: We concentrate on winning.

At the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

We speak so damn convincingly.

RONA: They're nervous but they're grinning.

GIRLS: It seems

We're living out our dreams.

BOYS: Which is a very nice

Very nice, very very very nice

ALL: Very nice, very nice

Very very very nice

Very nice

Beginning

RONA: 25th Annual

SPELLERS: 25th Annual

ALL: Putnam County Spelling Bee!

RS: "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" is on stage in New York and San Francisco. A national tour is scheduled to begin later this year.

AA: And that's Wordmaster for this week -- online at http://www.unsv.com/voanews/wordmaster/. Our e-mail address is word@voanews.com. With Rosanne Skirble, I'm Avi Arditti.