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hey yall hey guess what

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she chill on my in till i regret

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what if i killed myself.

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The fact that Alfred is the March Hare in Sick to Death but takes the hat off and is just Alfred and gets in Alice’s face about how she won’t let the story continue and keeps trying to stop it to save him, because if they don’t finish the story then he can’t die and leave her

But Alfred is so tired and she won’t accept that he’s going to die and she tells him that everything she’s doing is for him “it’s all about your pain” and he looks so defeated when responding with “sorry, but who’s pain” because that’s the question: is she trying to save him from death or herself from the pain of losing him?

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theatre moment i can’t stop thinking about is in alice by heart when the white rose petals are falling as alice and alfred talk and then. alfred coughs and the lighting turns red. painting the roses red with his blood. INSANE

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this has been one of my ultimate favorite choreographies in theatre ever since i saw this slime for the first time in 2019. LIFE CHANGING and everyone must watch it at least once…

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has this been done before

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Full audio recording of the antwerp show via @danrifics

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As promised, here is the tit preshow masterdoc!

I'll do my best to keep it updated regularly. It'll probably get dicier at some times when the shows are more frequent but I'll get to everything eventually (or may also ask for help down the line if needed and if anyone would be interested, I'll see how it goes)

For now the general plan is to do questions verbatim, then generally summarize the answers. I was gonna try to do it more barebones rather than a full transcript and it landed somewhere in the middle, so there's a decent overview of what they say included here but definitely still watch the videos if you want the complete picture!

I also was debating whether to include some unrelated anecdotes/tangents/random moments/etc. to help from an archival standpoint if people are trying to look for specific moments. I can't decide if I like that or how to format it if I keep it so please give me feedback!

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SPELLING BEE MEGALINK LOLZ

HELLO PEOPLE OF TUMBLR!!! IF YOU DO NOT KNOW, I ALSO POST PHOTOS OF SPELLING BEE ON PINTEREST!!! SO HERE’S JUST A SPELLING BEE MEGA LINK!!! THIS INCLUDES ALL OF THE PHOTOS, B-ROLLS, VIDEOS, AND THE OFFICIAL MUSICAL WEBSITE (from 2006)!!!! anyways there is no need for credits, i do not own any of these!!! If you wanna, then you can :P

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I need more theaters taking advantage of the fact that they could use Anything for the reason Superintendent Spriggs couldn’t make it

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hey! alright so i may have done a thing

so for the past,,, idk 3 weeks? ive been going on a deep dive into spelling bee mostly to sedate my own curiosity of needing to know everything about what i'm interested in. as it turns out, there is a LOT of content with this musical, so i'm here to talk about my findings! note: i will be keeping this EXCLUSIVE to the original 2005 off broadway cast. as much as i'm a brown university girlie through and through, the original cast is where the content is. OKAY FIRST: youtube findings

a lot of small videos were made usually with logainne and leaf. you'll be quick to learn that they made the most off stage content. i have a public playlist with these videos, along with interviews, the original boot, and a few other things. the cast album isn't in it because that's audio only and i want visuals damnit. (plus its on spotify and easy to look up so.) the exception is 25apcsbmt12doc because its pretty underground and the purpose is to get word out about niche things.

second: myspace pages a lot of the spellers have myspace pages! this is like. a common thing!! only two were archived (leaf and logainne) and are able to be accessed! i'll talk about the others in a bit. they contain new information and i personally find them very interesting!

leaf logainne

HOWEVER: three are currently able to be accessed through modern myspace without needing an account. the format is off, but it's accessable.

barfee 25apcsb account panch third: other

there's two different things here so i'll separate them :]

3.1: r/v club

r/v club is a short film by rebecca feldman (one of the people that worked on spelling bee) that includes logainne! it can be found on her site with other short films. i believe this is the only one with her in it HOWEVER i have not checked therefore i could be wrong. it's set post-spelling bee, i believe. also jesse is in it but not as leaf.

r/v club

3.2: official site

spelling bee had a site!! and official merch!! its just a cool thing i think. it'll be mentioned again in the last section

spelling bee site

fourth and final: lost media (to my knowledge)

okay, spelling bee has.... QUITE a bit of lost media. again, this will be separated into parts.

4.1: C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-E

before spelling bee was a thing, crepuscule (albiet mispronounced) was an improv play made by the farm. (same group who made r/v club) a lot of the characters were similar or the same, and it has a similar premise. however, it wasn't a musical. from what i've heard, there USED to be a boot of it, however i haven't found one of my own. i would love to be corrected.

4.2 myspace pages

remember how i was going to say this was going to come up again? hi thats now. outside of leaf and logainne, other myspace accounts were made! mitch (comfortcounselor), olive (mydictionary) + (oliveostrovsky), chip (chiptolentino), marigold (marigoldconeybear) an olive and barfee joint account (ilovemydictionary), and a leaf and logainne joint account (schwartzylogan). there's also another leaf account with the very confusing name of panchspell the issue with these is that theyre not archived, so you'll need a myspace account with a verified email to view these. in the year of our lord 2024 that's not exactly an easy find, especially since verification emails no longer send. plus, one of olive's accounts is dictionary.com now so,,,, who knows what it looks like there. most also need a connection, which makes things even MORE difficult. i hate how close but out of reach these accounts are.

4.3. spelling bee game

yeah they had a game. it's on the site, and it's eternally stuck at loading characters from my experience. here's the link anyway! game

4.4 the dirty bee

oh jesus its the dirty bee. so for context, in 2006 when the show was running, a few nights were booked for spelling bee that were meant for mature audiences and were 18 plus. it's catered towards people who have already seen the bee and want something new. it was inspired by jay (panch) and putting in words or sentences researsals that were clearly for funnies because he was bored. alas it became a derivative of the musical. all we know is what an article provides (theres more than one but the one linked gives the most info) and that chip quote unquote "finished off" at my unfortunate erection according to jose. there's rumor that chip is canonically bi in it but theres no sources so,,,, can't confirm that one.

article

(the quote is said in the reunion "stars in the house" and is found in the playlist)

conclusion:

there's genuinely so much shit in this musical i find it fascinating. this post WILL be updated with any other finds or information. PLEASE dm me or let me know if i got something wrong or if you have something to add (though do add a source, please and thank you)

ALSO: reblogs are greatly appreciated!! shoutout to the wiki, @/honkmaster69 and the people i spam in dms for helping and tolerating me <33

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i just know that they weren’t planning on making wdapteo this year but saw us all begging for it and were like fuck we better give them something

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instead of baking this year i need dnp to cook savoury food like just a regular ass meal that isn’t from deliveroo or toast just to reassure me that we don’t need to call social services on these men in their 30s

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manifesting a dan and phil 18+ 2025 tour

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| Just remembering this moment from Dan’s tour