Spelling Bee Lines

"Term" is the line before... "Definition" is Rona's line

Voice: Miss Peretti. Please spell “Syzygy.”

Syzygy.

S-Y-Z-Y-G-Y.

Syzygy!

Voice: We have a winner!

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you…

Rona and Chip: “Very nice beginning”

Our winner here last year, Chip Tolentino. Let’s give him a hand!

Logainne: Ms. Peretti!

And, our youngest competitor, Logainne SchwarzandGrubeniere

Coneybear: “I’ll stand when they announce my name”

Leaf Coneybear.

Rona with spellers: “Simple but its not — it’s a very big undertaking.”

Returning after last season’s tragic setback: William Barfee.

Barfée: It’s pronounced Barfée; there is an accent ague.

I’m not sure who this girl is —

Spellers: “Unlike idiots we ideate”

To ideate is to form an image or idea, to think.

All: “Putnam country spelling beeeeee”

I’d like to take this moment to ask you to please turn off all cell phones and other distracting devices, and put away cameras — sorry no photos at the bee. Now it seems there are a few spellers who haven’t checked in, so if I call your name please [come right down *improv* meet me over by the desk] Im missing —

Calling out audience volunteers (first and last name of each participant)

And I need to speak with Miss Olive Ostrovsky.

Olive: I’m Olive.

Miss Ostrovsky. It seems we haven’t received your entrance fee.

Olive: Entrance fee?

Did the school not tell you about the twenty-five dollar entrance fee?

Is your mom here maybe? Or your dad?

Olive: My dad had to go into work. He’s gonna try to come later.

Who brought you to the bee, dear?heT

Olive: The bus.

All right. We’ll talk about the entrance fee later. Take your seat.

Barfée: Shut up.

(as libs if people are still settling in, the object is to keep things moving) Ladies and Gentlemen, and the children you see on stage are here because of their extraordinary ability and love of language — but only one of them can go on to compete in the National Spelling Bee! And this year, to celebrate our silver anniversary, our local sponsors, the Putnam Optometrists, are offering today’s winner a two hundred dollar savings bond toward his or her future education.

But remember, to get here each child had to win —oneybearC

Coneybear: Oh but I —

or place — in their own district bee — so each of them is already a winner.