#t25apcsb

[toooliix]

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

[oh-god-a-four]

I made more spelling bee memes

[bowcard]

thinking about how marcy park’s parents probably didn’t even show up to the spelling bee because they knew she’d win.

thinking about how isolated marcy probably felt from all her competitors as they only saw her as someone who had accomplished more than them, even though she most likely just wanted to feel included.

thinking about how marcy probably resents rona, since anytime she’d go up to the microphone to spell a word, rona would list off one of her many accolades and accomplishments (the very thing marcy wanted to separate herself from), causing her to snap (and perform “i speak six languages”).

thinking about how marcy, the (canonical !!) catholic schoolgirl, was so used to attaching her worth to her wins, that the lord jesus christ of all people had to be the one to let her know that wasn’t the case.

thinking about how marcy’s parents are probably as bad to her as olive’s parents (in a different way of course) but we don’t hear about it due to olive being way more emotional about it since marcy was never allowed to be emotional.

thinking about how she gets only three hours of sleep a night, and she hides in the bathroom cabinet, and she’s not allowed to cry.

thinking about marcy park.

[khoblogs]

i know this fandom is more vacant than fucking wyoming but drop your fave t25apcsb productions 🙏

[not-sure-what-im-feeling]

pspsp.. 25apcsb fan..

hi..

hello…

hii….hey..

hi..coughs really loudly

*Tentatively steps out of my little dark room, sniffing the air*

Mrrr? Arf?

another 25apcsb fan? Hello! Hi there!

[compooterlover]

one of them is watching it her favorites olive

getting two irls into 25apcsb I WINNN

[biggestwilliamfinnfan]

do you think bill finn knows about the hundreds of thousands of mentally ill teenagers who think about his silly music 24/7 without end

[theiloveyousong]

is your url a reference to The I Love You Song from t25apcsb or something else

yeah! it’s one of my fave musicals and Also my name is olive :)

[viceroono]

t25apcsb fan.. 25apcsb.. bbgghh… gnnnhh…..foams at mouth

WHY DID I JUST SEE THIS !!!! DIES !!!!!!! HI HELLO !!!!!!!! jumps up and down hehehee,,,,fd,sfd,s,df

[ethanthesemendemon]

1. sound body, sound mind - adamandi

2. someone gets hurt (reprise) - mean girls

3. woe is me (reprise) - t25apcsb

4. texas reznikoff - mitski

5. smartphone hour - be more chill

thanks 4 tagging me! @foongusmushroom @nataliedormeranne @mischaswife + anyone else who wants to join!

TAG GAME!!:

Shuffle your favorite playlist and post the first five songs that come up.

thank you @monscrow <33

omg omg okay!! :D

Pinkish - Gerard Way

She’s My Winona - Fall Out Boy

You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison - My Chemical Romance

Dear Percocet, I Don’t Think We Should See Each Other Anymore - Frank Iero

Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet - Fall Out Boy

@monscrow @nebul4-t @edwardspoonhands @bitchboy @cyanide-sodapop @earth2morguee @he-zone @codeoth @sirpoopepic @anxi0usgh0st @faggyv4mpire @lookal1ve

[toooliix]

i had a moment

[oh-god-a-four]

microdosing delusion by exclusively playing roles I am far too old for

[jasons-baseball]

I’m telling you now, I have plans that i cannot share with you right now because the haters will sabotage me. I have plans that i cannot share with you right now because the haters will sabotage me!

[khoblogs]

listen i know its canon that leaf listens to irish music but i feel like he'd heavily fw hyperpop

[fleetwoodworm]

i’m in a spelling bee mood and cannot stop thinking about the show’s incredible emotional whiplash. like, look at this kid! he only has one working nostril and writes words with his feet! look at this 10 year old! she started a gsa at her elementary school! wacky, right? look at this one! he has a song called “my unfortunate erection!” isnt that funny? look at this one! her mom left and her dad abuses her. isnt that funny????? isnt that real funny, bitch????????

[compooterlover]

in english class and we played vocabulary jeopardy and every EVERY single time someone was like “can you use it in a sentence? alternative definition?” i couldn’t get t25apcsb out of my head. every single time. i’d lean over to my friend and be like “lol putnam spelling bee reference??loll lol haha lol”